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SAPIUM reticulatum Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
SAPIUM reticulatum Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb. Hippoman. 245, fig. 46, C.D
Sclerocroton integerrimus Hochst. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 85; Sond. in Linnæa, xxiii. 107.
Sclerocroton reticulatus Hochst. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c.
Stillingia integerrima Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Adansonia, iii. 162.
Excœcaria hochstetteriana Müll. Arg. [family ], in Linnæa, xxxii. 122.
Excœcaria integerrima Müll. Arg. [family ], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 948.
Excœcaria reticulata Müll. Arg. [family ], l.c. 1213; Wood, Natal Pl. t. 10; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col. 320, as to description mainly; and in For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 103, mainly.
Tragia integerrima Hochst. ex Krauss [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 85, and ex Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1214; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb. Hippoman. 245.
Tragia natalensis Hochst. ex Krauss [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 85, and ex Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1214; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb. Hippoman. 245.
Information
a shrub, 10–18 ft. high, everywhere glabrous except the margins of the stipules; buds perulate; twigs slender, spreading; leaves short-petioled, alternate, membranous, oblong-ovate or ovate-anceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, base rounded or wide-cuneate, minutely auriculate-cordate at point of junction with petiole, margin entire or serrulate, 1–3 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. wide; petiole 1–2 in. long, channelled above; stipules ovate-lanceolate, as long as the petiole, very caducous; spikes terminal on leafy twigs, 2–3 in. long, with many male flowers above and 1 (rarely 2) basal female flowers; male bracts oblong or ovate, somewhat toothed, several-flowered, glandular at the base; female bracts 1-flowered; pedicels of male flowers longer than bracts, of female flowers nearly 1/4 in. long, in fruit 3/4 in. long; male calyx 3-partite, lobes triangular, toothed; stamens 3; female calyx 3-sect, wide-triangular, cordate, acute, toothed, with either a gland or a lanceolate toothed lacinula at each sinus; ovary glabrous, with 2 dorsal horns on each carpel; styles 3, shortly connate at the base; capsule ovoid, acute, 1/2 in. across, with a coriaceous separable somewhat wrinkled epicarp and a thick woody endocarp, breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci; seeds ovoid, grey, mottled with brown. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; St. Johns, Sim, 2422, partly! Natal; near Durban, 100 ft., Wood, 1012! 1033! 1417! 6529! Rehmann, 8984! Wilms, 1916! Clairmont, Engler, 2540! Inanda, Wood, 92! between Pinetown and Umbilo, Rehmann, 8038! and without precise locality, Gueinzius ,! Krauss, 351! 468! Drège, 4587! Peddie! Cooper, 1231! Williamson! Gerrard, 83! Gerrard & McKen, 697! Delagoa Bay; near Lourenço Marques, Junod, 68! Sim; Magaia, Schlechter, 12046!
Notes
A very distinct species which, nevertheless, so careful an observer as Sonder in 1850 thought to be only a variety of the one next to be described. Sim, another competent observer, has recently been led into the same misapprehension, and has distributed under the same field-number, 2422, specimens of both these species. Under the name Excœcaria reticulata, Sim based on these specimens a description which covers both species, but has given a figure which represents only that one to which the name E. reticulata does not apply. Baillon in 1863 first pointed out that Hochstetter in 1845 had given two names, Sclerocroton integerrimus and S. reticulatus, to what are only two conditions of the same species, and that, of these two, S. integerrimus is the name which should be used. Müller, in the same year, recognising this fact and, at the same time transferring the species to Excæcaria, substituted for Hochstetter's two specific terms the new name E. hochstetteriana. Realising the inadmissibility of the proposal, Müller in 1866 first (DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 948) used the name E. integerrima, but later (l.c. 1213) altered it to E. reticulata. In transferring the species from Excœcaria to Sapium, Pax has adopted the specific name finally employed by Müller.
SAPIUM reticulatum Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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