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Retz. This limitation is substantially in accordance with the 
limitation of the same two Acalyphas by Meyer in 1843; the 
plant identified with A. glabrata, Thunb. is in reality that species 
while the one identified as A. betulina is not the plant so named by 
Retz but is a variety of A. glabrata. The last Acalypha in this 
list, Zeyher 3840, identified correctly as A. discolor, Ei. ey., 18, 
therefore, as we have seen, A. capensis (= A. decumbens, Thunb.). 
This Zeyherian list, briefly summarised, therefore adds to the 
genus two additional South African species neither of which is 
provided with a name. 
The next contribution to our knowledge of the South African 
species of Acalypha was published by Sonder in Linnaea, vol. xxiii. 
(1850), pp. 115-117. Through the kindyess of Professor Lindman 
and Dr. Dahlstedt we have been enabled, in considering this 
enumeration, to examine the actual specimens with which Sonder 
dealt. e may discuss the six species he accounts for seriatim. 
The first species recorded by Sonder is “ A peduncularis, E, Mey.! 
Meisn. ! syn. A. crassa, Buching!” for which he cites no specimen 
but to which he adds a variety “3. glabrata, Sond.” based on a 
specimen collected by Zeyher on the Macalisberg Range. The only 
specimen in his herbarium on which Sonder has written the name 
“ A. peduncularis, E. Mey.” is one of Zeyher 3838, from Howison’s 
Poort, Albany Div., which is exactly like the plant collected in the 
Assegai Bush, Albany Div. by Drége, and obtained by the same 
collector on two occasions on the Zuureberg Range, that forms the 
basis of A. peduncularis, E. Mey. It so happens that Sonder’s 
statement that this plant is really conspecific with the Natal one 
described by Meisner under the same name, is accurate. But an 
examination of his specimens shows that the accuracy of Sonder in 
this regard is purely accidental, for he did not have at his command 
any example of any portion of Krauss, 377. The specimen which 
led Sonder to this conclusion is one collected by Gueinzius at Port 
Natal which was written up in Sonder’s collection as “ pee! bce 
peduncularis, E, Mey. ?—crassa, Buch.!” Above this legend has 
been added subsequently the name “A. punctata, Meisn.?,” a 
Nor has Sonder been really more fortunate in his treatment of his 
own variety ‘glabrata.’ It is true that the description given by 
Sonder applies only to eg ee and that this plant is a specimen of 
Zeyher 1521, from the Macalisberg Range, on which t onder has 
written the name A. peduncularis, 3. glabrata. But in his own 
herbarium Sonder wrote up a specimen of Zeyher 3839 also as 
A, Dap rina 9 glabrata ; to this second specimen, which was 
collected on Van Staadensberg, Uitenhage Div., Sonder’s description 
of var. glabrata is quite inapplicable. : 
Sonder’s second species is one which he describes as new and is 
_ based on Gueinzius 171, from Natal and on Zeyher 1518, from the : 
_ Macalisberg Range. This species, A. angustata, Sond., is perfectly — 
