386 
1790. ‘There is not the slightest evidence that either Thunberg’s 
or Sprengel’s plant ever came into cultivation in Europe. It 
remarked, in connection with this question, that the specimen in herb. 
Willdenow (n. 18598) upon which Willdenow based his description 
of C. tenuifolia is a cultivated one, and that Willdenow notes 1t as 
having been grown in a garden in England. Krauss, who in the 
case of most of the South African Cluytias known to him came to 
well considered conclusions, went very nearly as far astray as did 
Linnaeus ; if the latter included C. ericoides in his C. polygonotdes, 
the former included C. polygonoides in his C. ericoides. But Krauss 
treated the two as distinct varieties; C. ericoides, Krauss, is 
C. polygonoides, Linn., and C. ericoides var. minor, Krauss, is 
C. ericordes, Thunb. 
2. Cluytia nana, Prain ; suffrutex nanus, 7-10 cm. altus ; ramuli 
crassiores, iterum intricatim ramosi, glaberrimi; folia  sessilia, 
coriacea, ovata, acuta, basi rotundata, margine involuta, adpresse 
imbricata, 3 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, subtus convexa subcarinata, 
supra altius concava, glaberrima; flores dioici; masculi solitarii, 
glabrum, 
Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony; Mont aux Sources, 
3000 m., G. Mann in herb. Marloth, 2870. 
This very striking plant comes nearest to typical C. ericoédes, 
Thunb., but, in addition to having a different habit and distinctive 
facies, both perhaps explicable by the considerable altitude at which 
it occurs, it is readily separated from all three varieties of that 
species on account of its perfectly glabrous young twigs. 
12. Tomentosae, Pax et K. Hoff'm. in Engl. Pflanzenr.— Euphorb. 
Cluyt. 75 (1911) emend. et C. Thunbergii exel.—Folia haud 
ericoidea, firme membranacea vel papyracea, tomentosa vel sericea, 
hebetia, margine plana vel raro (C. Katharinae) parum revoluta ; 
petala feminei modo maris basi glandulosa; ovarium dense 
tomentosum ; capsula tomentos .--Species 4; C, tomentosa, C. 
nae. 
marginata, C. sericea, C. Kathari 
Coast Region : Caledon, Bredasdorp and Swellendam Divs. 
