Tas. 8082. 
EUPHORBIA procuMBENS. 
South Africa. 
Evrnorsiacez. Tribe HurHorBie&. 
Evrnorsia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 258. 
Euphorbia procumbens, Miller, Dict. ed. 8, no. 12, non auctorum aliorum, 
ex affinitate EF. Caput-meduse, Linn., a qua glandulis involueri integris 
differt. 
Herba succulenta 3-6 poll. alta, inermis, glabra, Caulis crassissimus, 
cylindricus, tuberculatus, 2-4 poll. diam., apice truncatus et ad marginem 
disci stellatim multiramosus. Rami patentes vel subdeflexi, usque ad 
6 poll. longi, 3-4 poll. crassi, leviter curvati, teretes, tuberculati; tubercula 
subrhomboidea, decurrentia. Folia carnosa, 3-3 poll. longa, patentia, 
linearia, acuta, supra leviter concava, subtus convexa. Cyathia pedun- 
culata, in caulis truncati et ramorum interiorum apicibus disposita, 
glandulis inclusis 3 poll. diam., hemispherica, 5-loba ; lobi late rotundati, 
fimbriati, erecti; glandule transverse oblongz, obtus, integra, lutew, 
demum rubescentes. lores masculi numerosi, pedicellis superne pubes- 
centibus. Ovariwm trigonum, pubescens ; styli connati; stigma trilobum, 
lobis late cuneato-obcordatis.—F. pugniformis, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. 
vol. xv. 2, p. 92; Saunders, Ref. Bot. vol. iii. t. 161. H. Caput- meduse, 
var. 6, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i, p. 452. Medusea procumbens, Haw. Synop. 
Pl. Suce. p. 134. Euphorbium humile, procumbens, ramis simplicibus 
coptosis, caule crassissimo, tuberoso, Burman, Pl. Afr. p. 20, t. 10, f. 1. 
Of all the dwarf succulent South African Huphorbie 
this is undoubtedly the most striking from the mass of 
flowers and the contrast of their brilliant colours. It 
appears, however, to be a rare species, though cultivated 
in England before 1768 ; but neither Miller, who described 
it at that date, nor Haworth, forty-four years later, makes _ 
any mention of the flowers, which were apparently unknown 
to them. Subsequently it died out of cultivation, and was 
re-introduced by Mr. T. Cooper about 1860. The specimen 
here figured is an old and well-grown plant in the 
possession of Mr. Justus Corderoy, Blewbury, Didcot, 
which flowered in July, 1905. Mr. Corderoy is remark- 
ably successful in the cultivation of succulents, and has 
had the present plant in flower many times. 7. procumbens 
is allied to the better known H. Caput-meduse, which 
differs in having green flowers with the glands of the 
involucre 3-toothed. The two previous figures, quoted 
above, represent much younger plants than the one here 
JuLy Ist, 1906. 
