Tas. 8275. 
EUPHORBIA Leptenn. 
South Africa. 
EvrHorsracean. Tribe EvPHORBIRAE. 
Evpuorstia, Linn.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 258. 
a 
Euphorbia Ledienii, Berger, Sukkulente Euphorb. p. 80; affinis F. coerulescenti, 
Haw., sed ramis 5-7-angulatis remote et leviter (nec forte) constrictis et 
spinis minoribus facile distinguenda. 
Frutex succulentus, ramosus, cito aphyllus, 1 m. vel ultra altus, omnino glaber. 
Rami acute 5-7-angulati, 3°5-5°8 cm. crassi, leviter constricti, constric- 
tionibus 7°5-20 cm. distantibus; anguli ad acies haud vel leviter vel 
interrupte indurati; sulci inter angulos concavi. Folia minuta, squami- 
formia, 1 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, late rotundata, evanida. Spinae binae, 
divergentes, 3-7 mm. longae, brunneae, demum cinereae, intervallis 
1-2 em. longis dispositae. Cymae involucra 3 gerentes, saepe plures in 
axilla singula aggregatae, brevissime pedunculatae. Pedunculi 2 mm. 
longi. Bracteae squamiformes, 1-2 mm. longae, late rotundatae vel 
oblongae et subtruncatae, apice minute denticulatae. IJnvolucra 83-4 mm. 
longa, obconica, truncata, glabra, lutea, centrale masculum, lateralia 
bisexualia, glandulae transverse oblongae, integrae, 0:6 mm. longae, 
1°5 mm. latae; lobi quadrati, fimbriato-dentati. Ovarium glabrum; 
stylus ad medium trifidus, ramis crassis linearibus apice émarginatis vel 
minute bifidis obtusis.—N. E. Brown. 
The plant from which the figure of Huphorbia Ledienii 
now given has been prepared is one that has been. in 
cultivation in the succulent house at Kew since 1868, when 
it was presented by the Jate Admiral Sir A. Milne, along 
with various other South African succulent and bulbous 
plants received by him from Mr. Morrison. Another 
example of the species, now in the Kew collection, was 
acquired by purchase from Mr. A. Bennecke in 1893. The 
same species is said, however, to have been in the collection 
of Mr. W. W. Saunders at Reigate in 1866, and according to 
Mr. Berger, who first vindicated its right to specific rank in 
1907, EL. Ledienii is not uncommon in Continental gardens. 
Its nearest ally, among the species at present in cultivation, 
appears to be LE. coerulescens, Haw., from which, as Mr. 
Brown points out, it differs by its more numerous and less 
Sepremser, 1909. 
