260 ELTiioinuACE.^ (Brown). \_EvpliorUa. 



A 



curved pedicel ; styles free, \ lin. long, bifid at the apex, spreading ; 

 seeds not seen, E. myrilfolia, E. Meyer in Drege, Zivei Pfl. Docu- 

 wenfe, 184, ex Boiss. in DC. Proch\ xv. ii, 169^ and E. sclerophylla, 

 vat, myiiJfoVta, Boiss. Ic, 109. T'dhjmalus multicauUs, Klohsclt d- 

 GarcJce in AhJiandl. Al'tuL Berlin, 18G0, 98. 



Yar. j3, puberula (N. E. Br.); leaves pubenilous on both sides^ otherwise as in 

 the type. 



Coast TtEGiON : Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, Bnrcltell, 3545 ! Krch^, 290 ! 

 MaeOwan, 17! WdUamsonl ScJdechter^ 201 G! Sch onhtml , 40! EcUiya ^ Zeyher, 

 Euphorb. n, Bnrtt-Dary, 11592 ! Coopery 20 ! Misses Dalt/ (^ Cherry, 1027 ! near 

 Assegai Bosch, Drefje, 3563 ! Var. /3 : Bathui\^t Div. ; at Riet Fontein, between 

 Ka.^uga liiver and Port Alfied, BuYchell, 39G1 ! 



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24. E, striata (Thunb. Prodr. 86, and Fl. Cap. ed. Scbnlt. 400) ; 

 stems several, annually produced from a perennial rootstock, erect, 

 8*-22 in. bighj herbaceous, simple or branching into a panicle at the 

 inflorescence, striate, glabrous ; leaves alternate, usually laxly 

 scattered, sometimes few, more rarely closely placed, erect or 

 ascending, rarely spreading or deflexed, sessile or subsessile, 

 coriaceous, |-2 in. long, |~3 lin, broad, linear, linear-lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, very acute and somewhat pungent at the apex, 

 slightly narrowed or roundod at the base, flat or with incurved 

 (never revolute) margiiis, those of the wliorl at the base of the 

 umbel often broadly ovate or rhomboid-ovate, acute or long-pointed, 

 labrous on both sides ; umbel 3-5-rayed, 1-4 in. in diam., with or 

 without axillary rays below it or sometimes the umbel is wanting 

 and all the rays are axillary and alternate, forming a panicle ; rays 

 ^-3i in. long, or when barren or proliferous often much longer, 

 glabrous ; bracts 2-4 lin, long, 3-7 lin. broad, half-circular, i-honv 

 boid-reniforni or rhomboid-ovate, obtuse or acute, apiculate, glabrous ; 

 involucre subsessile or pedunculate, l-J-^-^ lin. in diam., cup-shaped, 

 glabrous outside, with 4 glands and 5 oblong or oblong-ovate ciliatu 

 lobes; glands f-l^ lin. in their greater diam., more or less crescent- 

 shaped or transversely oblong, with a point or short horn at each 

 end, rarely entire; capsule 11-2^ lin. in diam., tricoccous, glabrous, 

 exscrted -^1|- lin. beyond the involucre on a cur\ed pedicel ; styles 





^-^ lin. long, free to the base, radiately spreading, bifid at the 

 apex; seeds 1^ lin. long, oblong or ellipsoid-oblong, with a small 

 caruncle at one end and a depressed ring at the other, smooth, 

 slate-grey or blackish. E. pumjcnSy E, Meyer in Brege, Zwei Pf- 

 Docnmeiite, 184, ex B^iss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 170, not of Lorn, 

 T'itJiymahis crq^ensijs, Klotzscli d: Garcke in Ahhandl, Alad. Berlin, 

 ISGO, 98. 



- Var. fi, cuspidata (Boiss. in DC, Prodr. xv. 170) ; leaves laxly scattered, %'l\ 

 in. long, IJ-3 liu. broad, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 pungently acute, rounded or narrowed at the base; umbels ^-IJ in. in diam., 

 sometimes head-like with exceedingly short rays, at others with rays J-^J i^^- 

 long ; glands of the involucre with their horuri so recurved or revolute that they 

 appear to be merely concave or notched or subentire along their outer margin 

 when viewed from alx)ve, E. ni^pidaf'tj Bemh. in Fhra^ 1845, 86. and in KnmsSj 



Beit)'. FL Cap- and Natal, 150. 



