Unplwrhia.'] ErpiiOKiUACE.E (Brown). 251 



9. E. pseudotuberosa (Pax in Tail]. Herb, liuiss. 2'"*^slt. viii. Go7); 



a 2terennial herb; rootstoek a large Hcshy tuber, producing one to 

 several elongated Heshy neek-like subterranean stems, from wliicli 

 the leaf-stems arise; leaf-stems few ur many, annual, ^,-2 in. high, 

 simple or forked, glabrous or thinly and minutely puberulous ; 

 leaves opposite under the involucres or at the forkiiigs of the stem, 

 alternate elsewhere, sessile, ?»-lo in. long, |-2 lin. broad, linear or 

 lanceolate, acute, with infolded margins or concave-channelled, 

 glabrous on both sides, more or less glaucous, thinly coriaceous ; 

 stipules none ; involucre j-^ in. in diain., solitary and terminal or in 

 the forks of the stems or 2-3 in a lax cyme, cup-shaped, glabrous 

 or miuutely puberulous outside, with 4-5 glands and 5 transversely 

 rectangular fringed puberulous lobes ; glands 1^-2 lin. across, 

 palmately divided into 3-5 ratlier stout recurved-spreading seg- 

 ments ^-1 liii. long, corrugated on their upper surface and along 

 the outer portion of the 2-lipped undivided part ; capsule 3-3 A lin. 

 in diam., tricoccous, glabrous, much exserted on a puberulous 

 pedicel exceeding the involucre by lJ-2 lin.; stales lA-2 lin. long, 

 united for one-third to one-half their length, with recurved- 

 spreading arms, slightly thickened and miimtely 2-lobed at the 

 jqtex ; seeds not seen. 



Kalahaui Hkgion : Transvaal ; near liustenburg, 40aO ft., Mists Pi'jler, 934 I 

 near Pretoria, FcJn; 43 ! Miss LcauJtrtz, 239 \ Hartebeest Poort, Pretoria District, 

 ■4500 ft., Bartt-Dai-y, 9S19 ! Grooakluof Valley, Moggl Six-uiiles Spriut, near 

 Pretoria, Schlcchter, 479^! Smitskraal, jBartt-Uari/, 9942! 11-284: 12SS9 1 and 

 without precise locality-, Zcf/hcr, 1539 partly I 



pustaken for that species, but may be readily distinguish* 

 involucre -glands and mucli more exserted owary and capsule. 



10. E. trichadenia (Pax in Engl. Jalnb. xix. 125); a perennial 

 herb; rootstuck a tuber Avith an elongated neck, producing annual 

 herbaceous stems 1-1 in. high, branching from the base, puberulous 

 or glabrous ; leaves opposite at the flowering nodes and forkings of 

 the stem, alternate elseMhere, sessile, thinly coriaceous or perhaps 

 slightly fleshy, f-2i in. long, i-2^ lin. broad, linear, acute, usually 

 slightly curved, often longitudnuUly folded, glabrous on both sides, 

 sometimes ciliate on the narrow cartilaorinuus margins; lowest 



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leaves and sometimes those under the involucres (bracts) much 

 smaller, lanceolate, linear-lanceulate or scale-like ; stipules nonej 

 involucres solitary in the forkings of the stems or sometimes 3-5 

 in small terminal cvmes, sliortly pedunculate, 4-5 lin. in diam., 

 ^'up-shaped, glabrous'or minutely pu]>erulous outside, with 5 glands 

 ^nd 5 transversely rectangular or subijuadrate fiinged lobes; 

 glands l^-lg lin. long, 11-2 lin. broad, palmate or somewhat fan- 

 shaped, deeply divided Tnto 3-7 (or more?) linear or filifurm 

 segments |-l| lin. long, once or twice foi-ked at the apex, flat 

 or channelled but not corrugated on their uj^per surface, with the 

 «ndi\ided basal part concave or 2-lipped from the inner margin 



