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longae, 4-6 mm. ise, concavae, ovatae, Be: ovato-lanceolatae, 
apice obtusae, aliquando acuminatae, villosae. Perianthii tu bus 
m. longus, villosus; segmenta 4 mm. ions, linearia, villosa; 
Tibtes 3 mm. longus, linearis, apice obtusus. Staminodia 
25 m. longa. Ovarium 2 mm, Icngum, 1 mm. latum, globosum, 
villosum; stylus 8 mm. longus, glaber. 
A shrub 12 m. high with 7--12 branchlets: 12-19 em. long 
arranged in a whorl on the branches, which are produced 
24-26 em, beyond the whorl and bear the inflorescences. Branches 
and branchlets glabrous or very finely pubescent. Leaves similar 
in both sexes, 1-2-6 om. long, linear, obtuse, narrowed to the 
base, glabrous; when boiled out the leaves appear rough which 
is due to striations in the walls of the epidermal cells.* Male 
inflorescence peduncled, terminal on short axillary shoots; 
peduncle pitger 4 be: by the upper leaves, 1 cm. long, racteate ; 
head 6 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter, few flowered. Flowers in 
the axils of bracts. Bracts 25-3 mm. long, obtuse; finely pilose 
on the upper half; the outer 1-5 mm. broad, ovate ; the inner 
1 mm. broad linear. Perianth-tube 3 mm, long, cylindric, 
villous; segments 1 mm. long, pubescent;. limb 2-5 mm. long, 
‘lineay-lanceolate, obtuse, pubescent ‘with glabrescent tips. 
Anthers 2 mm. long, linear. -Style arising from apex of perianth- 
tube, 1°5 mm. wie? cylindric, glabrons Hem mm. long, 
7 
leit Cuter bracts ree 7m _ long, 4-6 mm. broad, concave, 
ovate, obtuse, some shortly and “pluntly acuminate, villous with 
white hairs; inner bracts 9 mm. long, concave, ovate to ovate- 
lanceolate, obtuse, villous. Perianth-tube 9 mm. long, nopeuil 
‘villous, segments 4 mm. long linear, villous; limb 3 m ong, 
linear, obtuse. Staminodes 2°5 mm. lon ng. Ovary 2 mm. long, 
1 mm. in diameter, globose, densely villous; style 8 mm. long, 
eylindric, glabrous; stigma n 
Sovrn Arrica. Riversdale Division : Muiskraal, near Garcia’s 
Pass, about 320 m., October, Galpin 4441, 4442 (a and in National 
Herbarium, Union of South. pee 800, 801 
This species approaches L. orymbosum, Berg. , in habit but 
differs in having the male iadimeivedtod pedune ulate; also allied 
to L. ericifolium, R. Br., but differs in the longer and thicker 
Jeaves, and by the fleshy glabrous or almost glabrous male bracts. 
1648. oe asperulatus, /7utchinson | Euphorbiaceae- 
Phyllantheae]; affinis P. Niruri, Linn., sed ramulis asperulatis 
disco 9 minus ae differt. 
* = Romie has examined these leaves and makes the following obser- 
vation 
a transverse section of a leaf, the cuticle appears sheuely warted. 
This i is tes to longitudinal cuticular ridges, of which there are usually 
three or four seh each epidermal cell, extending for the greater part of 
the — of the cell. 
le af lie a ee white appearance owing to reflection of 
light ety a substance occupying the cavities of the epidermal cells, 
and having ‘capotcewaliine stracture.” 
