410 
“ hybrida ” or to “ Schlechteri ” and merged, like them, in Meyer’s 
original species. 
28. Cluytia disceptata, Prain ; suffrutex caulibus saepissime sim- 
plicibus, raro parce ramosis; caules e rhizomate lignoso plures, 
erecti, 20-60 cm. alti, sursum minopere angulati, versus basin teretes, 
juniores parcissime adpresse hirsuti ; folia breve petiolata, juniora 
membranacea, mox papyracea, pellucido-punctata et parcissime 
verrucosa, ima nonnunquam orbicularia sed saepius ovato-oblonga, 
superiora ovato-lanceolata raro omnia ovato-lanceolata, sey basi 
lata vel angustius cuneata, margine — recurva, 1*8-3 cm. longa, 
0°8-2°5 cm. lata, viridia, juniora utrinque parce ‘Senta: mox 
glabrescens vel elabr a, subtus distincte reticulata; petiolus prope 
basin 2 mm. longus, superne subobsoletus, pubescens ; ; = ioici, 
viridescentes, maris 2—4-ni, feminei solitarii vel nonnunquam 2-ni ; 
pedicelli 8 mm. longi, pubescentes, maris capillacei, fominai rigidi 
sed gracillimi, fructigeri saepe 1 cm. longi; sepala maris ovato- 
oblonga, obtusa, punctata nec sastide verrucosa, glandula basali 
3-5-loba aucta; petala ovato-rotundata, in unguem latiorem 
angustata, eglandulosa sed glandulae circiter 25 (pro petalo 4-5) in 
fundo calycis intra petalorum insertionem innatae reperiuntur ; 
ovarii rudimentum cylindricum, glabrum ; sepala feminei oblonga, 
punctata, glandula basali 2-loba aucta ; petala maris vel eglandulosa 
vel glandula singula basali aucta ; ovarium hirsntum ; styli basi 
maunttesto connati, sursum 2-fidi; capsula 5 mm. lata, quam pedi- 
cellus plus quam duplo breviora, parce setosa vel glabrescens vel 
glabra, nequaquam verrucosa ; semina nigra, nitentia. C. pulchella, 
Wood in Wood & Evans, Natal Pl. 1. 68, t. 84 (1899); nequaquam 
Linn. C. heterophylla, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. — Euphorb. sea 66, 
partim et quoad syn, Wood (1911); nequaquam Thun 
Eastern Region: Griqualand East ; near Kokstad, 1300 m., 
Tyson, 1114, 1234. New near Durban, Sanderson, 661 ; Gerrard, 
278 ; Gerrard & McKen; Wood, 38, 4944; Inanda, Wood, 120 ; 
Rehmann; 8407 ; Claremont, Schlechter, 2942 ; Marburg, 90 m. s 
Rogers, 536 in par 
This very dincnct species has been referred by Medley Wood to 
C, pulchella, Linn., but differs from the latter plant in habit, in its 
subsessile leaves, 1 in its many petaline glands and in its hirsute ovary. 
Pax, in rectifying this misapprehension, has referred the plant to 
~ oe But C. heterophylla, Pax is not the true C. heter- 
hylla, Thunb., moreover C. heterophylla, Pax, not of Thunb., is 
ine fa mixture of two species, one of which is C. disceptata, described 
above, the other being C. monticola, S. Moore. This last named 
plant is readily distinguished from C. disceptata by its leaves and 
tems, which are glabrous at all stages, and by its fruiting pedicels, 
ay are hardly longer than the capsules. 
Cluytia monticola, S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. x, 197 
(sii); Hutchinson . Doe Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. 1, 803 (1912). C. 
heterophylla, Pax in 1, Planzenr.—Euphorb. Cluyt. 66, partim 
et quoad syn. Schade (1911) : nequaquam Thunb. Middelbergia 
transvaalensis, Schinz ex Pax \,c. (1911). 
hari Region: Orange Free State and Transvaal, 
Eastern Region: Natal and Zululand. 
Also in Rhodesia. 
