250 EUPUOKriACE.E (Browii). [Enphorhia. 



1-G-times forked, erect, rather slender, glabrouSj laxly leafy; loaxes 

 all opposite, spreading, very sKortly petiolate, i— 1-^- iiJ- l^^i^oS 2"^^' 

 lin. broad, linear, acute, obliquely subcordate at the base, with the 

 margins narrowly revolute, glabrous on both sides ; iuvulucres 

 srtlitarv in the forks or terminal on the ultimate branchlets, shortly 



pedunculate, 1 lin, in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with i appen- 





daged glands and 4-5 minute toothed lobes; glands ^-^ lin. in 



their greater diam., transverse, narrowly elliptic, excavated at the 

 top, half encircled by a conspicuous petal like white or red appen- 

 dage ; capsule about 1 lin. in diani., obtusely 3-angled, exserted 

 on a recurved pedieel, glabrous ; styles I lin. long, free to the base, 

 ei^ect, collected together, minutely bifid at the apex ; seeds about 

 I lin. long, ellipsoid, 4-angled, with 3-4 transverse ridges on each 

 face, reddish. E. arahicdy var. latlapjfCiuUculaUi^ Pax in EuyL 

 Jaltrh. xliii. 85. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Queens Eivor Valley aii<l Kaap Valley, near 

 Eurbertun, Galph}, 757! Warmbatb, BurU-Dacif, 5563! Bdas, 12280! Koniati 

 Poort, Schkc/ite7% 117o6 I near the :\ragala>iueen (Nyl) Hiver, between Nylritrouin 

 and Naboomfonteiii, Schlechtcr, 4278 1 



Eastkux Hegio^ : Delagoa Bay, Juuod, 1^0! 



This belongs to a ^mall gn-np of African and North American species which 

 closely resemble one another, but aeem clearly distiuct when carefully examined. 

 From /'J.arabica, Hochst. it Steud.^ it i.s at once distinguished by its much 

 larger gland -appendages and very much longer styles. F. Et/Jesii, Rendle, and 

 E, leshumcnsiSy N. E. Br., are also similar; from the former it differs by its 

 annual habit, mode of branching and smaller gland-appendages, &c.j and from the 

 latter, Ijesides other ditlerences, by always di^'iding into 2 main branches at 

 the node formed by the seed-leaves, whilst in Z'. leshiimtusis the seed-leaf node 

 and 2-3 nodes above it ne\'er appear to produce branches. 



8. E. Pfeilii (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 534) ; a perennial herb, 

 9-1^ in. high, Avith the stems repeatedly forked from the hase? 

 slender, 1-lt lin. thick at the base, rigidly herbaceous at the upper 

 part, sometimes naked l>eIow, glabrous ; lea\ es very small, opposite, 

 rather thick and fleshy, including the short petiole l|-2^ lin. long,-i-f5- 

 lin, broadj linear-oblong, entire and apiculate or minutely toothed at 

 the apex, glabrous on both sides, probably glaucous ; involucre soli- 

 tary, at first terminal, but by the outgrowth of branches immediatelv 

 beneath it, is left in the forks of the branches, where it ripens seed 

 and then falls away, sessile, ^ Ihi. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous 

 or \vith some minute crisped hairs outside, with 4 glands and o 

 rectangular minutely toothed lobes ; glands minute, transversely 

 oblong, without an appendage ; capsule about ^ in. in diam., thinly 

 covered with miuuto curved hairs, exserted on a i)edicel ^-^}i h"* 

 long, at first curved to one side, ultimately erect; styles |— J- h^- 



lonff, free to the base, erect, bifirl at the atiex : seeds not seen. 



hman 



Hnh. Bols.^. 2*"^ ^eV., viii. 636, not of 



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AVksterx Rkgion: Great Namaqnaland ; Htolzenfels Reitfnntein, Graf P/f'^ 

 91! in a river-bed at Euchholzbrunn, 3250 ft., Fca)>vn, 3658! Tnaehab, 

 Dinter, 15 '. 



