TABE 48a be 
EUPHORBIA virrrina. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Eupnorspiacez.—Tribe EurHORBIEs. 
Genus Evurnorsia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 258 ) 
Kurnorsia (§ Euphorbium) ciperina; species ex affinitate FE. Caput-Medusxe 
et H. parvimamme a quibus foliis~minutis sqnamiformibus differt; etiam 
E. tridentate (E. anacanthe, B. M., t. 2520) affinis, ab ea glandule 
lobis linearibus recedit; frutex carnosus, erectus, inermis caule nunc 
brevi obconice incrassato apice plus minusve stellatim ramoso nunc 
elongato cylindrico podariis carnosis elongato-hexagonis tecto, foliis 
ovatis vix 1 lin. longis acutigs cito deciduis, pednnculis brevissimis 
monocephalis, involucri campanulati lobis albis hirtis fimbriatisque, 
glandalis carnosis lacerato-bilobis, staminibus filamentis plumosis inter- 
mixtis, ovario hirsuto stylo glabro stigmate late trilobato lobis crenulatis, 
fructu ignoto, : 
“E viperina, A. Berg. in Monatsschr. fiir Kakteenk. vol. xii. (1902), p. 39. 
‘The genus Huphorbia is one of the largest in the 
vegetable kingdom, numbering five to six hundred species, 
which exhibit the greatest variety in size, habit, duration - 
and foliage. .They are spread all over the world, except — 
the colder regions. The section to which HE. viperina — eae 
belongs is confined to the Old World, and mainly to 
Africa ; and the species are still very imperfectly known. 
~The growth of H. viperina and allied species is very 
irregular under. different conditions. When propagated 
from seed the primary stem develops as an obconical 
body, which bears numerous branches spreading in a 
stellate manner from near the top. The further develop- 
ment we have not ‘observed. When propagated from 
cuttings the branching is one-sided, and the main stem 
elongates considerably—two to three feet. 
This species comes very near the one figured in the 
Magazine (t. 2520), as EZ. anacantha, Ait., especially in the 
minute, scale-like leaves; but the involucral glands are 
very different. H. globosa, Sims (B. M. t. 2624) is another 
species of the same section. LH. meloformis, Ait., is very 
much like some of the unarmed species of Melocactus. 
It is a noteworthy fact that although the genus Huphor- 
Aveust Ist, 1904. : 
