405 
Synops. ii. 636 (1807); Att. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 423 (1813); 
Curtis Bot. Mag. xlv. t. 1945 (1818); pies! Fl. Cap, ed. Schult. 
271 (1823); A. Juss. Euphorb. Gen. Tent. t. 6, fig. 21 (1824); 
Spreng. Syst. iii, 49 (1826); £. ia i in Drige, Zwei Pft. Docu- 
mente, 174, quoad a tantum (1843); Krauss in Flora, xxviii. 81 
( re ond in Linnaea, xxiii 129 (1850) ; Dietr. Synops. v. 455 
(1852); Bail horb. t. 16, fig. 6-19 (1858) et in 
Adansonia, iti. 153 (1862); O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pi. iii. 2, 284 
(1898). C. cotinifolia, Salish. Prodr. 390 (1796). C. pulchella, 
a genuina, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, 1045 (1866) et B 
obtusata, Mill. We le. 1046, fier (1866). C. pulchella, 
f. genuina (syn. C . Galpini et spp. seg transvaalens. excl.), f. 
macrophylla (syn. Mull. Arg. excl. y et f. obtusata (pre parte 
tantum), Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr.—Euphorb. Cluyt. 54 (1911). 
Coast Region: Cape, George, Knysna, Humansdorp, Albany 
and Bedford Divs. 
Eastern Region: Pondoland and Natal. 
Var. B ae Sond. lc. (1850); Mull. Arg. lc. 1046, pro 
parte maxima (1066). C. pulchella, Z. Mey. in Drége l.c. , quoad 
go rte (1843). C. microphylla, Pav in Ann. Hofmus. Wien. xv. 
49 (1900). C. pulchella, f. genuina (quoud Rehmann 5912 gle 
f microphylla, £. macrophylla (quoad PP natalens. tantum) et f 
obtusata (pro parte maxima), 1) 
Coast Region: Uitenhage, Albany, Alexandria, Bathurst, 
Stockenstroom, Queenstown, Std King Williamstown Divs. and in 
British Kaffrania, 
Central Region : Somerset and Tarka Divs. 
Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony, Basutoland and 
Transvaal. : 
Eastern pS ae Transkei, Tembuland, Pondoland, Griqualand 
East and Nata : 
Var ee Prain ; ramuli nee verrucosi, persistenter eS 
patentitice mollibus pilosi ; folia tenuiter membranacea, punctata nec 
tamen verrucosa, ovata, subacuta, 2-2°5 cm. longa, 1°2—-1°8 ¢ m., lata, 
nervis supra pilosis arate ‘glabra, “gable ects pilis 
patentibus mollibus hirsu 
Eastern Region : Rae Amazimtoti, Miss Franks in herb. Wood, 
912 ah 
This familiar plant, which has been in cultivation in Europe since 
the end of the seventeenth century, is one of the best known of 
South African ‘pation of Euphorbiaceae. It occurs in two readily 
separable forms which were for the first time recognised in 1850 by 
Sonder, and were by him treated as two distinct varieties charac- 
terised by the different van es of os priae aes difference in 
form of leaf, though genera 5 op 
owing to their haste Facekae this fact both Miller 3 in 1866 and 
Pax in 1911, while recognising the existence of Sonder’s (3 obtusata 
have marred its natural character. They have included in it 
specimens which, the ugh they have obtuse leaves, really belong to 
C. pulchella proper and they have e xcluded from it specimens 
which reall hela ong to : obtusata but Wich do not happen to have 
blunt-tipped leaves. 
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