Ejq)horb{a. j EUPIIOKBIACE-E (Brown). 257 



styles f lin. long, veiy shortly united at the base, entire, usually 

 collected together (not spreading) and directed downwards; seeds 

 1 lin. long, elllpsoidj smooth or minutely tubercnlate. Jarq. Edoij, 

 i. 98, L 66; Boiss, in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 134. U. plaft/j>7njl/ns, var. 

 Uteraia, Bolus rt Wolley-Bod in Tram. S. A/r. BhlL Sor. xiv. 319. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; in a marsliy field near MaitLuiJ Piridge. 

 WoUey-Bod, 3202 ! by the railway near Salt Eiver, Wollcy'Dod, 3022 ! 



A native of the south of ^Europe, the Orient and North Africa, whence it has 

 heen introduced. This was originally, from imperfect material, thought to be 

 E, ;^)lati}plnjUos, Linn., var. Uteraia, Koch, but from a statement upon a label 

 subsequently received that it is a perennial, and from tlie stoutness of the stem 

 and from its habitat, it would appear to be rather £. pnhesceiis, Vahl, which only 

 seems to differ from E. platyphyUos by being a perennial and growing in humid 

 places. The seeds of E. platyphi/Uos are described as smooth, and those of 

 E, pnhesccns as minutely tuberculate, but I find specimen^^ of E. puhescens with 

 seeds as smooth as those of E. p)hdyphyllo8 and its varieties, and, in one inatance, 

 smooth and tuberculate seeds in the same capsule. 



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19- E. dumosa (E. Meyer in Droge, Zwei Pfl. Documente, ISi, ex 

 Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1G8) ; apparently a dwarf shruhlet, 1 ft. 

 or more high, with a woody main stem about 1 lin. thick, repeatedly 

 dividing in an umbellate manner; branches 3-4 in each umbel-like 

 group, slender, | lin. or less thick, umbellately branching, leafy 

 above, naked and rough from prominent leaf-scars below, very 

 uiinutely puberulous on the younger parts, brown or ochreous- 

 brown ; leaves alternate, with 3-5 in a whorl at the base of each 

 umbel of branches or flowers, numerous, sessile, very spreading or 

 deflexed, 2^— 4 lin. long, 1-2 J lin. broad, obovate-oblung or some- 

 what cuneately oblong, obtuse, apiculate, minutely serrulate at the 

 apical part, glabrous on both sides; flowering-rays 1, 2 or 3 in an 

 umbel, \~l in. long, slender, glabrous, each bearing a pair of bracts 

 and 1 involucre; bracts 1.^-2 lin. long, 2-3 lin, broad, somewhat 

 half-circular, obtuse, apiculate, entire or minutely denticulate. 



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labrous on both sides ; involucre sessile, 1/,-lf Hn. in diam., 

 outside very minutely cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 

 subquadrate minutely ciliate lobes; glands |— J lin. in their greater 

 diam., transversely oblong or crescentic-oblong. with 2 horns about 

 \ lin. long; capsule about U lin. in diam. (immature), glabrous, 

 exserted on a recurved pedicel ^ lin, longer than the involucre; 

 styles free to the base, erect or ascending, h lin. long, bifid at the 

 iipex ; seeds not seen. 



Eastern Rkgiox : Pondoland ; near the Umsikaba River, Drhje, 4G19 ! and 

 without precise locality, Bachmannj 754 ! 



The peculiar umbellate manner in which the stem and branches repeatedly divide, 

 and the small spreading or deflexed leaves and horned glands readily distinguish 

 this species from its allies. 



20. E. ovata (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 184, ex 

 Eoiss. in DC. Prodr, xv, ii. 167); stems several and probably 

 annually produced from a perennial rootstock, 3~G in. high, varying 

 from pilose with rather h)ng spreading hairs to nearly or quite 



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