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F. Pax. — Euphorbiaceae-Acalypheae-Chrozophorinae. 



5a. C. subplicata (Müll. Arg.) Pax et K. Hoffm. — G. tinctoria var. sab- 

 plicata Müll. Arg. in DG. Prodr. XV. 2. (1866) 749; Boiss. Fl. Orient. IV. (1879) 1141. 

 — Annua, indumento stellari, denso, fulvo-cinereo tomentosa. Petiolus 3 — 6 cm longus; 

 limbus rhombeo-ovatus, obtusus vel acutus, basi acutus vel obtusus, sinuato-dentatus 

 vel lobulatus, margine undulato-crispus, secus costas zb plicato-costatus, dense vestitus, 

 subscaberulus. Inflorescentia abbreviata, 1 i / 2 cm longa, congesta, superne q?; bracteae 

 utriusque sexus subulatae; flores (j 1 subsessiles; pedunculi § ad basin inflorescentiae 

 2-flori; pedicelli Q fructigeri 1 — 4 cm longi, deflexi. Sepala 5, Q 1 lanceolata, Q linearia; 

 petala q 1 lanceolato-ovata, Q anguste linearia; stamina 10, connata; antherae obliquae; 

 ovarium lepidotum, stjli fere liberi, ad medium bifidi. Capsula 9 mm lata, 5 mm longa, 



Fig. 5. Chro&ophora glabrata (Heldr.) Pax et K. Hoffm. 



D Capsula. E Semen. — 



A Habitus. B Alabastrum $. OFlosQ. 

 Icon. origin. 



tricocca, lepidota, breviter muricata. Semina 4Y 2 mm l° n g a > * mm lata, apice apicu- 

 lata, tuberculato-aspera. 



Ägypten: Kairo (Bove n. 374, Ehrenberg!, Husson), Kosseir am roten Meere 

 (Schweinfurth!). — Afghanistan (Griffith n. 4792!). 



Nota. Planta, ut jam monuerunt cl. Schweinfurth in Sched. et cl. ßoissier 1. c., hybridae 

 originis videtur, orta e C. tinctoria et G. plicata. 



6. C. glabrata (Heldr.) Pax et K. Hoffm. n. spec. — G. tinctoria var. glabrata 

 Heldr. in Parnassos (1899) 277 (nomen). — Herba annua, 18 — 25 cm alta, aquam 

 flores emollientem rubro-tingens, divaricato-ramosa; rami mox glaberrimi. Petiolus 

 1^2 — 4 cm longus, glaberrimus; limbus 4 — 5 cm longus, 4 1 / 2 — 3 cm latus, ovatus vel 

 ovato-lanceolatus, acutus, basi subobtusus vel acutus, denticulatus, basi subtus biglandu- 

 losus, 3 — 5-nervius, mox omnino glaber vel junior secus marginem et parce secus 



