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Mey., 
C. tomentosa, Linn., was named by  Miiller C, tomentosa, var. 
elliptica, Mill. Arg. As Pax in 1911 has pointed out, there is no 
variety “elliptica” as apart from C. tomentosa, Linn., proper. 
Pax has not, however, given full effect to this conclusion; Drége’s 
specimens from Swellendam, which are those upon which the 
variety ellipticu, Miill. Arg., was founded, have been transferred 
by Pax from the variety of which they constitute the basis and 
placed by him in the variety marginata, from which Miiller was 
careful to exclude them. By some inadvertence Pax has attributed 
the first publication of C. tomentosa to the Mantissa Plantarum of 
1767 instead of to the actual place, which is the Mantissa altera 
of 1771. 
dense cinereo-pubescentia ; petiolus 2 mm. longus ; flores dioici, 
. Drigeana in Swellendam lecta excl. 
[nomen] (1850); Baill. Adansonia, iii. 152 [nomen] (1862). C. tomen- 
tosa, var. marginata, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, 1053, 
omnino (1866); Paz in Engl. Pflanzenr.—Euphorb. Cluyt. 76, partim 
(191 C. incanescens, Hort. in hort. Kew. 
Coast Region: Ladismith Div. ; Kannaland, between Cogman’s 
Kloof and the Gouritz River, Ecklon &§ Zeyher, 67. George Div. ; 
Montagu, Marloth, 2831. 
Central Region: Beaufort West Div.; N ieuweveldebergen near 
Beaufort West, 3000-5000 ft., Drige, letter a. 
This species, after having been in cultivation at Kew in the early 
part of the nineteenth century under the name C. incanescens, seems 
to have been lost without being replaced. The specimens collected 
by Marloth in 1903 agree well with those of Ecklon and Zeyher 
from Kannaland and those of Drége from Beaufort West. Speci- 
mens raised et Berlin from seed of Marloth 2831 ba very well 
with C, incanescens, Hort., preserved at Kew. No ful description 
of this species has so far beer. given. 
