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Phyllaiitlieae] ; affinis P. Deldndtiij Hutchinson, sed habitu 

 fruticoso pedicellis brevioribus, floribus 2 paucis differt. 



Caules suberecti, sublig-nosi, glabri; ramuli laterales floriferi 

 Bumerosi, solitarii vel 2-3-nati, graciles, patuli, dense foliati, 

 glabri, . Folia ovato-elliptica vel oblongo4anceolata, ntrinque 

 rotundata, 3-10 mm. longa, 2-4 mm. lata, glabra, infra glauca, 

 nervis lateralibus 3-4 subconspicuis; petioli vix 0-5 mm. longi, 

 glabri ; stipulae subulatae vel subulato-filiformes, acutae, circiter 



1 mm. loii-gae, glabrae. Flores monoici, in ramulo quoque 

 plerumque masculi, interdum paucis (1-2) feminei additis. Flores 

 6 : pedicelli 1*5 mm. longi, glabri; sepala 5, late obovata, apice 

 rotundata, 1-5 mm. longa, 1-25 mm. lata, membranacea, glabra; 

 disci glandulae 5, rotundatae, planae, crasso verrucosae; stamina 

 -3; filamenta ad apieem connata; antherae lateraliter dehiscentes. 

 Flores 2 • seixnla 5, oblonga vel oblongo-elliptica, apice rotundata, 

 circiter 1'6 mm. longa et 1 mm. lata, membranacea, glabra; 

 discus leviter lobatus (fere annularis), planus, rubescens, glaber; 

 ovarium laeve; styli 3, e basi divergentes, graciles, bilobati, apice 

 non incrassati. Capsula depresso-globosa, leviter 6-lobata, 

 SeTYiina fere laevia. — P. Niruriy Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Docum. 151, non Linn. 



SouTtr Africa. Natal; damp places near the Tugela River^ 

 Gerrard and Machen 1925; Clairmont, Wood 1765; near Pine- 

 town, Wood 5303; Alexandra district; Farm Friedenau, Rudatis 

 317. Pondoland; Egossa, Sim 2515; Mengana Cutting, between 

 Umtata and Port St. John's, Bolus 10,279; between St. Join's 

 Eiver and Amsikaba River, Drege a ; between Umtentu River and 

 Umzimkulu River, Drege b. 



1526. Croton penduliflorus, Hutchinson [Euphorbiaceae- 



Crotoneae] ; affinis C. Lehmbachii, Hutchinson, sed foliis breviter 

 acuminatis basi penninerviis, glandulis basalibus longe stipftatis, 

 xacemis longioribus floribus ^ et $ intermixtis differt. 



Ramuli leviter angulati, parce breviter puberuli vel glabri. 

 Folia obovata vel obovato-elliptica, apice' breviter acuminata, 

 obtusa, basi subcuneata, 9-12 cm. longa, 5-6-5 cm. lata, crenato- 

 dentata, membranacea, utrinque parce stellato-puberula, nervis 

 lateralibus utrinque 5-7 arcuatis utrinque conspicuis, venis laxe 

 anastomosantibus; glandulae basales annulares, stipitatae, stipite 



2 mm. longo; petioli 3-4 cm. longi, subteretes, fere glabri. 



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6 



racliis prominenter sulcata, stellato-puberula ; pedicelli graciles, 

 ad 4 mm. longi, breviter pubescentes. Flores 6 : sepala ovata, 



mm, lonera, L'4d mm 



mm 



mm. lonira, extra 



intra dense villosa, extra glatra; stamina circiter 12; filamenta 

 filiformia; antherae 0-75 mm. longae ; receptaculum albo-villosum. 

 FZore^ 2 : sepala oblongo-lanceolata, subacuta, 2 

 et apice pubescentia; petala nulla; ovarium tomentellum; styli 

 basi liberi, bipartiti, recnrvati. • '. 



Tropical Afuica. rSierra Leone; Kennema, on the road to the 



May 



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