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juniores puberuli; folia distincte petiolata, firmiter membranacea, 
pellucido-punctata nec tamen verrucosa, ovata, acuta, 2°5 em, longa, 
1:2-1°8 cm. lata, juniora subtus puberula, mox glabra, pallide viridia ; 
petioli 5-6 mm. longi ; flores dicici, albi, maris in glomerulas pauci- 
floras aggregati, feminei saepius singuli, raro 3-ni ; pedicelli breves, 
feminei fructigeri elongati 4—5 mm. longi; sepala maris oblongo- 
ovata, haud verrucosa, glandula basali 3-loba aucta: petala del- 
toideo-ovata, in ungem latiorem angustata, basi 1-glandulosa ; ovarii 
rudimentum sursum dilatata, glabra; sepala feminei eis maris 
similia nisi firmiora; petala maris nisi glandula multo minore vel 
omnino deficiente ; ovarium glabrum ; styli liberi, breviter 2-fidi ; 
capsula 5 mm. lata, subglobosa, verrucoso-punctata ; semina nigra, 
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4287; Leendertz. 532; Bolus, 10839. Wilms, 
1320 partly ; Kirk fil., 50; Burtt Davy, 7477 ; Wonderboompoort, 
Rehmann, 4589 ; Heidelberg, Leendertz, 1031; Boschveld, Rehmann, 
4871; Elandsfontein near Johannesburg, 1700 m., Gilfillan in herb. 
Galpin, 1426; Rustenburg, 1400 m., Miss O. Nation, 52, 202 ; 
Barberton, 900 m., Thorncroft, 1943 ; without precise locality, 
Wahlberg. 
comment by Pax in 1911. In 1898 the gathering from Boschveld 
cited above (Rehmann, 4871) was placed by Pax alongside a 
gathering from Barberton (Galpin, 961), the two being treated 
conjointly as the basis of a distinct species, Cluytia Galpini, Pax. 
The description of the male flowers, taken from Galpin’s plant, shows 
that that plant is not a Cluytia at all, but that it is, as Pax has 
since pointed out (Pflanzenr. l.c. 83), an Andrachne, A. ovalis. 
But when correcting this misapprehension Pax created another one 
22. Cluytia pulchella, Linn. Sip. Pl. 1042 [Clutia] (1753) et ibid. 
ed, 2, 1475 (1763); Burm. f. Prodr, 27 bis [31] (1768); Lamkh, Encye. 
Meth. ii. 54 (1786); Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 420 (1789); Thunbd. 
Prodr, Pl. Cap. 53 (1794); Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 2, 881 (1805) ; Pers, 
