392 
A species very closely allied to and hag hardly specifically 
distinct from C. Alaternoides, Linn is readily recognised by 
having simple in place of branching seine. it has, however, to be 
borue in mind that this is a character such as might be expected in 
a plant sending up fresh shoots from a woody base after veldt fires. 
12. Cluytia laxa, Eckl. ex Sond. in Linnaea, xxiii. 128 (1850) ; 
frutex 30-60 cm. altus; caules graciliores, lignosi, crebre ramosi ; 
ramuli subpatentes, glabri: folia sessilia, coriacea, opaca, lanceolata, 
obtusa apice mucronulata, basi roundata, m margine parce scabridula 
saepissime plana, 6-12 mm. longa, 3-4 mm. lata, utrinque glaberrima, 
pallide viridia; internodia vix angulata vix 3 mm longa ; ; flores 
dioici, albi, subsessiles, maris in —, paucifloras aggregati ; 
feminei solitarii ; ve ramulorum apices densiuscule 
agegregati ; sepala maris obovata, ar ra glandula basali 3-loba aucta, 
petala late obovata, cuneatim unguiculata, basi 2-glandulosa ; ovarii 
rudimentum glabrum ; sepala feminei elliptico-lanceolata, ea maris 
superantia, glandula basali 3-loba aucta ; petala oblongo-obovata, 
eglandulosa ; ovarium glabrum ; iat liberi, 2-fidi; capsula sub- 
globosa, 4 mm. lata ; semina nigra, nitentia. C.Alaternoides, Sims, 
Bot. Mag. t. 1321 (1810); Art. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 422, partim 
(1813) 5 nee Linn, C. Alaternoides, 3 intermedia, Sond. Le., pro parte 
maxima (1850) ; Ball. Adansonia, ni, 150 (1862). C. Alaternoides, 
Y ecatiic. aa planifolia, Sond. Le. syn. Willd, exel. (1850); Baill. 
le. (1862). C. alaternoides, Z lanceolata, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
xv. 2, 1048 (1866). alaternoides, angustifolia, 1 lanceolata, 
Pax in Engl. ogres — Euphorb. Cinyt. 70, fig. 22 B (1911); nec 
y angustifolia, E. Mey. 
Coast Region: Riversdale Div., Garcia’s Pass, Phillips, 370. 
Qudidhoors Div.; near Oudtshoorn, Miss Britten, < : 
cee near Knysna, Newdegute. _ Uitenhage Div. ; Uitenhage, 
Ecklon & Zeyher, 42; Klands River, Ecklon ; Ecklon é Zeyher, 59. 
Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, Bolus, 2243; Mrs. 
Paterson, 1109; Walmer, Mrs. Paterson, 832. Albany Div. ¢ at 
Soutar’s Post, ‘Burchell, 3504 ; Grahamstown, Williamson: Mac- 
owan, 27 ; Rogers, 66, 3995 ; Stone’s Hill, Schénland, 72; Currie’s 
Kloof, Schonland, 576 j Kaboussie, Macowan, 325; Harvey’s 
Post, Galpin, 78. Queenstown Div. ; Hangklip Mountains, 1600- 
2000 m., Galpin, 1621, 1622; Stormberg, Wyley. Stutterheim 
Div. : Fort unynghanne, Sim, 2180. Komgha Div.; near the 
mouth of the Kei Riv 60 m., Flanagan, 1149.- British 
Kaffraria ; without precise opal, Cooper, 78, 79. 
Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Lydenburg, Wilms, 1318. Bar- 
berton, 900 m., Galpin, 9: 
Eastern Region : Transkei; Kentani, 300 m., Miss Pegler, 1250. 
cage Alexandra County, Dumisa, at Fairfield, 750 m., Rudatis, 
y between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 2970. 
cat a laxa, Eckl, has already been fly described and 
y Sims in 1810 in the Botanical Magazine it was there 
co cia with and, at least in intention, trata as part of C. 
Alaternoides, Linn. ‘The first author to recognise the claim of this 
plant to separate recognition was Miiller, who, in 1866, treated it as 
a distinct variety of the Linnean species. Pax, in 1911, declining to 
