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Coast Region: Uitenhage, Albany, King Williamstown and eae 
London Divs. 
Central Region ; Somerset Div. 
Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony and Transva 
Eastern Region: Transkei, Tembuland, Pondoland, *Gigueead 
East and Natal. 
Var. (3 robusta, Prain ; caules sesquimetrales, quam ei typi mani 
feste crassiores, saepius minopere ramosi; folia ri ir papyracea 
vel subcoriacea, caulina 3°5-4 cm. long, 1*2-1'8 cm. lata, ramealia 
1°2-1°8 cm. longa, 6-8 mm. lata, C. eee eer Mil, Arg. le. 1051 
(1866) ; Paz’ in ears Pflanzenr. lc. 74 (1911); haudquaquam 
Scheele. C. hirsuta, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iti, 2, 284 (1898) ; 
vit HK. Mey. C. Krookii, Pax in Ann. Ho ine Wren. xv. 49 (1900) 
et en Engl. Pflanzenr. |.c. 74, sed syn. C. Schlechteri, Pax excl, 
(1911). 
Coast rer Uitenhage and Stockenstroom Divs., and in 
British Kaffrari 
Central Hepler: Somerset Div 
Eastern Region: Pondoland, Griqualand Kast and Natal. 
Cluytia hirsuta is a distinct shrubby species which in habit most 
rerembles C. Dregeana, Scheele, but it is readily distinguished from 
the latter by its more persistent pubescence, more translucent leaves, 
longer petioles, shorter male pedicels, pubescent ovary and capsule, 
and nearly free styles. The female pedicels have been described 
as being twice as long as the capsules; this is not the case in 
C. hirsuta, E, Mey., though it happens to be true of C. disceptata, 
the subherbaceous member of the same ap of species in whic 
the ovary and the capsules may be hirsut 
e two varieties here recognised seritptind precisely with the 
two Kibeched C. hirsuta and C. Dregeana as these were conceived 
K 
Krookii Dr. Pax has now reduced his own C. A Sehlechieri, a 
step for which there is a good deal to be said though, in the 
writer’s opinion, C. Schlechteri is really rather a form intermediate 
between C. Krookii, Pax (=C. Dregeana, Mull. Arg., not of 
Scheele) and the original C. hirsuta, E. Mey., than one which is 
strictly referable to either ; if it be nearer to ‘the one than to the 
other the affinity is closer with C. hirsuta than with C. Krookii. 
Under all the circumstances it has appeared poeerert to follow 
Miiller’s segregation of these forms ‘ati than to adopt the more 
recent modification thereof independently proposed by Pax. It 
must, however, be understood that the writer cannot concur with 
his predecessors in the view that two species, as Miiller has ae 
or three species, as Pax has supposed, are here involved. 
e 
recognition of two varieties renders it more ony to follow cod : 
ae the involved synonymy, but no could accrue 
were our variety robusta treated as merely a ‘oxi equivalent to 
