2r>r; EuriioifBiAOEJ-: (Brown). [Ei^/jH^rbia 



obovate i^r siiborbiciilar, obtuse, tapering into tlie petiole or tliose on 

 the umbo! (or bracts) sessile and br<»adly deltoid-ovate and somewhat 

 acute, all entitle, glabrous ; umbel usually H-iuved, with or without 



one or more ray -like branches below it, or the whole plant repeatedly 

 forking; rays ^-6 in. long, once or several times forked, glabrous; 

 involucre solitary in the forks or axillary or terminal, excluding 

 the horns about '4 lin. in diam. and nearly as deep, cup-shaped, 

 glabrous, green, with 4 glands and 5 oblong ^-ery minutely toothed 

 lobes; glands about J lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 oblong with a subulate horn at each end about j- lin. long; capsule 

 about 1 lin. in diam., trigonous, w^ith 2 very narrow wings along 

 each angle, glabrous, exserted on a pedicel I4— li lin, long; styles 

 minute; seeds | lin. long, oblong, slightly 6-angIed, with a series 

 of 3-i deep pits on 4 of the faces and one deep pit on each of the 

 other two faces, grey, tipped with a yellowish caruncle. Boiss, m 

 ' Da Frodr. XV. ii. 141 ; Bolus (t Wolley-Dod In Trans. S, Afr. FhH 

 Soc. xiv. 318. 



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South Africa : without locality, Thunhei^g \ Mintdl Mrs. Barher^ 291! 



Coast Ekcton; Cape Div. ; waste ground near Cape Town, Tyson, 227 -i ! 

 Simons Bay, WrijlU, 451 ! Devils Peak, Wilms, 3G28 ! sLove of Gordon Bay, 

 nUh, 1277 ! Newlands Avenue, Wolley-Dod, 2231 ! railway near Diep River, 

 WoUaj'Bod, 1222! near Claremont, Schkchter, 788! Komgha Div. ; borders of 

 woods on Prospect Farm, near Komgha, Flanagan^ 245 ! 



Central Region: Graaff Reinet Div. ; about Graaff Reinet, Thw^don, 199 ! 

 Bolus, 84 ! 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Pretoria, Mias Leendertz, 398 ! 



Easteen Region : Tran.slcei ; Krielis Country, Boirkei', 291 ! ^\atal ; Durban 

 Flat, Wood, 3925 1 



A weed of cultivation, introduced from Europe and now widely spread over 

 South Africa. 



18. E. pubescens (Yahl, Syral). ii, 55) ; a perennial horb, 1-2 ft. 

 higli ; stem 2-3 lin. thick, simple or with raj4ike branches below 

 the nmbel, £;labrons and when in full flower often naked below ; 

 leaves numerous^ alternate, w^itb a whorl under the umbel, sessile, 

 |-1| in. long, 3-5 lin, broad, somewhat oblanceolate, acute, sub- 

 cordate at the base, finely serrulate, pilose all over on both sides or 

 only on tlie marginal part above; umbel 4-6-rayed, with or without 

 rays in the axils of the leaves below it, bright yelluwish-green 

 {Wolhy~Dod); rays when fully developed 4-12 in. long, 2-4-times 

 branched ; bracts variable, some like the leaves, others much 

 smaller and ovate or rhomboid ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 

 ^1 in. long, 2-5 lin, broad, finely serrulate, varying from glabrous 

 on both sides to pilose like the leaves, even on the same specimen ; 

 involucre sessile, unisexual or bisexual, 1-li lin. in diam., cup- 



shaped, glabrous, w ith 4 glands and 5 oblong ciliate lobes ; glands 

 ^^ lin. in their gi*eiiter diam., transverse, elliptic-oblong, entire, 

 yellow or yellow^ish-i^reen ; capsule 1^ lin. in diam., subglobose, 

 slightly 3-grooved, minutely tuberculate, glabrous, exserted about 

 1 lin. beyond the involucre oxi a recurved or finally erect pedicel ; 



