538 FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
demum glabris; spicis masculis terminalibus subsessilibus 
subglobosis. 
In sylvis primitivis terree Outeniqua prope George (IV. C. 
b.) Jan. 1839. Krauss, n. 1215. 
From all the other species of the genus (cfr. DC. prodr. 4, 
p. 269. Eckl. et Zeyh. enum. p. 356.) our plant differs es- 
sentially by its peltate leaves, and from T. ellipticus and 
verticillatus, Eckl. et Zeyh., moreover in their position. It 
certainly approaches very near T. crinitus, Pers., the leaves 
of which, however, are not described as peltate by any au- 
thor, a conformation which none of them could have left 
unnoticed. Thunberg describes the leaves as “ ovata glabra,” 
whereas De Candolle calls them * pube molli sudlepidota 
stellata villosa," and so they are in our plant. They are ge- 
nerally elliptic-oblong, from 2 to 4 inches in length and 
(about the middle) 1-13 inches in breadth, and insensibly 
attenuated into an acute acumen; but on some branches 
they are in part quite ovate, scarcely and bluntly acuminate 
and not above 14 inches long. The petiole varies in length 
from 2 to 6 lines, and the distance of its insertion from 
the margin of the lamina is 4 lines at the most, very fre- 
quently much less, and in this case the base of the lamina is 
more or less cordate. The male flowers form a solitary 
capitule of the size of a cherry, almost sessile at the 
end of the branches between two small narrow tomentose 
leaves. Their structure answers perfectly De Candolle’s 
description. The bracteoles are linear, deciduous, covered 
with stellate pubescence. The petal is linear (reddish?) 
convolute, blunt, 21 to 3 lines long, glabrous, the stamen 
half as long, the filament rather thick, complanate, dilated 
at the base, as long as the thick, adnate oval anther which is 
terminated with a small blunt point; its two cells open lon- 
— and widely. We have not seen the female 
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