Eaphorhla:] EuriiORBlAGE.E (Brown). 258 



12. E. multiflda (N. E. Br.) ; evidently a perennial herb, about 

 4-G in. high, witli a tuberous or wooily rootstock producing annual 

 stomsj onl}/ one seeUj about 1;^ lin. thick, branching into a S-rayed 

 umbel at the top^ with 1 ray below it, glabrous; rays lJj--2| in. 

 long, ^-2 liii. thick, once (or perhaps twice) forked, with the 

 secondary rays 4-li in. long, puberulous ; leaves not seen, all 

 fallen, })ut probably like the bract.s and evidently alternate ; bracts 

 opposite, sessile, 3-6 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, broadly ovate, acu- 

 minate, puberulous on both sides; involucre i in. in diani., broadly 

 and rather shallowly cup-shaped, puberulous outside, with 5 pectinate 

 glands and 5 transversely rectangular fringed puberulous lobes ; 

 glands not contiguous, spreading, \^ lin. in their greater diam., 

 unequally two-lipped, with 5-G subulate simple or forked processes 

 1-1^ lin. long on their crinkled outer margin, puberulous all over 

 the outer surface, but glabrous on the inner or upper surface of the 

 gland itself; ovary and capsule not seen, the involucres examined 

 being male. 



Eastkkn Region : probably Natal, described from a .single specimen in the 

 Natal Herbarium, without locality or collector's name, but bearin^jr the number 



Similar in Ijabit and closely allied to A. trichade/tia^ Pax, but evideiitly 

 distinct. 



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13. E. graveolens (N. E. Br.) ; branches 3-6 in. long, probaldy 

 arising from a tuberous rootstock, curved at the base in all the 

 examples seen, 1-1| lin. thick^ glabrous; leaves 4-6 on a branch 

 and alternate, with a whorl of 4-5 at the base of the nmbel, 

 ascending, 2-6 lin. long, 1-1 i Hn, broad, lanceolate to elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute, narrowed at the sessile base, glabrous, deciduous, 

 when the branches appear leafless, those of the whorl all fallen from 

 the specimens ^een ; umbel 4-5-rayed, often with 1-2 rays below, 

 iu the axils of the upper leaves ; rays -^-J in. long, bearing 



1 involucre and a pair of bracts 1-2 lin. below it, glabrous; bracts 



2 lin. long, 1-1 j lin. broad, oblong or oblong-obovate, toothed at the 

 rounded apex, very concave from the margins being ineur\ed, 

 glabrous on tlie back, pubescent on the inner surface; involucre 

 2^-3 lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped, glabrous outside, pubescent 

 ^vitbin, purplish, with 4 glands and 5 transversely rectangxdar 

 deeply toothed lobes; glands deflexed, 1-1^ lin. in their greater 

 diam., either transvei'sely elliptic or suborbicular, with or without 

 a slight notch on the u]»pei' margin and with 4-6 teeth J-^ lin. 

 long on the lower margin or divided into two broad denticulate 

 lobes, apparently green or yellowish -green; ovary glabrous, exserted 

 from the involucre on a curved pedicel; styles united into a colunm 

 about I lin. long, with short radiating very broadly cuneate arms 

 or stigmas, channelled down their face, contiguous and formino: a 

 disc l~^ lin. in diam. ; capsule and seeds not seen. 



We-Stkux Ekgiox : Little Namaqualand ; between Stinkfontein and Garies, 

 Pearson, DfjZO ! Van Rhvnridorp Div. ; Karroo at Bakhiiis (Bak Oven), PlUans, 



