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Tembuland: near Bazeia, beyond the Bashee River, 2000 ft., 
Baur, 373! 
Pondoland : eae localities, Bachmann, 783! 790! 792! 793! 
1711! a 10 
Natal: near Dates, Krauss, 377 partly! Gueinzius, 404 partly! 
Gerrard 5 McKen, 619! Sanderson, 129! Wood, 1416 partly! 
Umgeni, Rehmann, 8804! Inanda, Wood, 48 partly! Camperdown, 
Schlechter, 3059 partly ! 
Var. (3, crassa, oe ees f in Linnaea, xxxiv. 28 (1865) et in 
DC, Prodr. ii. 846 (1866). F olia_ omnia obtusa densius 
pubescentia ; sanlde sobniilices —A. crassa, Buching. ex rce 
apud Krauss in Flora, xxviii. 83 (1845), A. ‘veduncularis, Sond. i 
Linnaea, xxiii., 115 (1850), quoad syn. A. crassa, Buching. ; Baill, 
Adansonia, iii., 156 (1863), quoad syn. A. crassa, Buching.: vix 
- Mey. A. peduncularis, var. ferox, Pax Mss. in Wilms’ exsice. 
No. 2265. Ricinocarpus peduncularis, var. ovatifolius, O. Kuntze 
Rev. Gen. PL, iii, ii., 
Natal : ene Dar bat, Kr ‘auss, 377 partly! Gueinzius, 404 partly ! 
Sutherland! Gerrard, 521! Wood, 90! Camperdown, Gerrard §& 
McKen, 1166! near Claremont, Schlechter, 3059 mainly! Krantz- 
kloof, Schlechter, 3188! Ina nda, Wood, "640! Pietermaritzburg, 
Wilms, 2265! Riet Vlei, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2722! Alexandria 
Dist., Dumisa, Rudatis, 445! Highland Station, Kuntze! Notting- 
ham, Buchanan, 143! Klip River, Sutherland! without locality, 
Hb. Swartz! Gerrard, 373! 
A, peduncularis, as treated by one of us in the Flora of Tropical 
Africa, has been accepted in the sense in which the species was 
presented by Miiller n DC. Prodr. xv. 1, 846, in "1866. In 
reality cheus are to the north of the tropic two distinet forms ; one 
of these, confined to Rhodesia, is the plant treated by Miiller as 
A, ragrirgeents: a, caperonioides (= A. caperonioides, Baill.), the 
ig met with in Nyasaland and Gazaland, being the plant treated 
Miiller as A : plieiieilerss, &, punctat. infec A, punctata, Meisn.). 
The abundant material of both now (isthe shows that it is better 
to treat them as distinct species. 
The variety here recognised, var. crassa, though usually 
readily separable from <A. peduncularis proper, is, as Meisner 
inted out when he originally described it, not really specifically 
distinct. Miiller made an endeavour to distinguish the un- 
cularis issued but not described by E. Meyer in 1843, from the 
peduncularis described by Meisner in 1845. But there is no 
justification for Miiller’s belief that these two differ. It is true that 
A, peduncularis, E. Mey., itself, is rare in Natal, and that in that 
colony its pare is largely taken by var. crassa. "Butt it so happens 
that the portion of Krauss 377, on which in 1845 Meisner based 
his description of A, peduncularis, is not separable from the plant 
issued 2 E. Meyer in 1843 under the same name. 
Acalypha glandulifolia, nrieg ex Meisn. apud Krauss in 
Flora, Xxvili. 83 (1845); Sond. in Linnaea, xxiii. 116 (1850); 
Me 1 Ann. iii, 367 (1852); Baill. in mee iii, 157 (1863).— 
eularis, var. glandulifolia, Mill. Arg. in Linnaea, xxxiv. © 
26 865), et in oe Prodr. xv. ii, 846 (1866). a 
