258 EUPHORBlACEyE (Brown). [Uiqjhorhia. 



glabrous ; leaves alternate, lax or crowded and somewliat imbricate, 

 ascending or somewhat spreading, very shortly petiolate, 4—8 lin, 

 long, 2-5 lin. broad, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, slightly 

 cordate or rounded at the base, flat, from pilose with rather long hairs 

 to glabrous on both sides; umbels S-S-raycd, 1-2 in, in diam. ; 

 rays 4— If in. long, once-forked, glabrous; bracts 3-5 lin. long, 

 5-8 lin. broad, some^Yhat reniform-ovate, obtuse, not apiculate, 

 glabrous; involucres on peduncles ■^— J lin. long, cup shaped, 

 glnbrous, with 4 glands and 5 subquaclrate notched lubes; glands 

 §—1 lin. in their greater diam., transverse, crescent-shaped, with a 

 short horn at each end; ovary exserted on a recurved pedicel, 

 glabrous ; styles free to the base, radiately spreading, |- lin, long, 

 bitid to half-way down, with revolute tips; capsule and seeds not 

 seen. Tttlu/ mains ovalus, Klotzsclt & GarcTce in Ahhandl. Almh 

 Berlin, ISGO, 97. 



Coast Region : Stockenstroui Div. ; Kat Berg (or according to Drego's original 

 label, on a mountain between the Kat and Klipplaat Rivers), 4000-5000 ft., 

 Ure^e, 3561 ! 



This is closely allied to E. sclerophylla , Eoiss., but is dwarfer, with more 

 herbacenns and less rigid stems and leaves ; the stems and leaves are usunlly 

 clothed w ith long conspicuous hairs, quite different from the minute pubescence 

 on E. selerophiflla, var. puherala, and the leaves are broader and without the 

 pungent point characteristic of that species. No collector besides Drege seems to 

 liave found It. 



21. E. albanica (N. E. Br.); a perennial herh, with many erect 

 annual stems, 10—12 in. high, arising from a woudy rootstock ; 

 stems rather slender 1-1 lin. thick, very minutely puherulous, 

 with a 3-4-rayed umbel at its apox and several axillary rays 

 holow, forming a suhcorymbose panicle; leaves alternate, with a 

 whorl of 3-4 at the base of the umbel, numerous but not crowded, 

 very spreading or slightly deflexed, those at the upper part of the 

 stem ^-J in. long and 3^-4 lin. broad, the others gradually 

 decreasing in size downwards, all elongate-ovate, acute, slightly 

 cordate at the very shortly petiolate or subsessile base, glabrous on 

 both sides, with the midrib not very conspicuous and the veins 

 obsolete ; rays of the umbel 2-4 in. long and those below the 

 umbel as long or shorter, all once-forked, slender, glabrous ; bracts 

 3-0 lin. long, 4-7 lin. broad, sessile, broadly triangular-cordate, 

 abruptly very acute, glabrous; involucres sessile, I4 lin. in diam., 

 cup shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 oblong or ovate obtuse 

 minutely ciliate lobes ; glands |-1 lin. in their greater diam., 

 including the short horns at the ends of the somewhat crescent- 

 shaped body, probably yellow or yellowish-green ; ovary glabrous, 

 exserted on a recurved pedicel | lin. beyond the involucre ; styles 

 united at the very base only, ^ lin. long, very spreading, deeply 

 bifid, with diverging recurved tips; fruit and seeds not seen. 



Coast Rfcuon : Albany "Div. ; Brookhnisens Poort, near Grahanistown, MaeOn^an, 

 (J57! 



