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262 EUPIIOUBIACE^ (Brown). [^Evphorhia. 



apex, glabrous, green or often purple at the margins, glabrous ; 

 iu\olucre l-4-li lin. in. diam., glabrous, with 4-5 glands and 5 small 

 ovate or oblong entire or slightly toothed lobes ] glands |-1 lin. in 

 their greater diam., transversOj more or less crescent-shaped, acute 

 or with a short horn at each end; capsule l|-2 lin. in diam. and 

 about as long, narrowing at the apex, glabrous, exserted on a 

 recurved pedicel about 1^ lin. long; styles ^-§ lin. long, free or 

 united for one-third to one-half their length, erect or collected 

 together or perhaps spreading when young, subentire, minutely 

 notched or bifid at the apex ; seeds |-1 lin. in diam., subglobose or 

 ellipsoid, smooth, grey or dark brown. Spreufj, Sy-'^f. Vey, iii. 798 ; 

 Boiiis. in DC. Frodr. xv. ii. 169, incL var. Burchdlii^ Boli^^. E. striata, 

 EcJcL d Zei/h. ex Boiss, in DC, Prodr. xv. iL 169. Tiihjwdas 



erjtJtrmus, KUdzscli <{• Garche in AhliandL Alcad. Berlin^ 1860, 91. 



Var. ^, Meyeri ("N". E. Br.) ; leaves laxly scattered^ ascending or spreading, 

 J-1^ ill. long, 1-2J lin. broad ; rays of the umbel 1-3^ in. lung, 1-3-times forked ; 

 bracts 2^-5 liu. long, 4-8 lin. broad, otherwise aw in the type. E. Meyni, IJolss. 

 Cent, Eirphorh. 35, and in DC\ Frodr. xv. ii. 146. F, dilatata^ E. Meyer in Brhje^ 

 Zwei Pfi. Documented 184, name only, not of J/oclstcttcr nor of Tt^rref/ d: Graj. 

 Tlthijmalos (f^picalaias, Klotzsck & Garcke in AbhandL Akad, Berlin^ 1860, 04. 



South Africa : without locality, Fordcrl Mund & Malre, 65 ! 248 ! Var. ^, 

 Mttnd & Malve ! 



Coast Ekgion : Cape l>iv. ; various localities near Cape Town, Berfjius\ 

 Btuxhell, 458! 8530! EckJon, 303! WaUlchl Wri<jht, 448! Ilarrcf/, 445! 

 WoUcy-Dod, 1293 ! 1793 ! 3044 \ 3161 ! Lids, 784 ! 1201 ! Schlechtcr, 987 ! 1315 ! 

 Dlimmcr, 10! 37! Caledon Div. ; Genadendal, Roaerl Swellendam Div. ; on 

 niountainSj Papjw ! Riversdale Div. ; near Zoetenielks River, Burchell, 6715 ! 

 Garciari Pass, Galpin, 4564 ! Uniondale Div. ; between Avontuur and Klip River, 

 Drege t Albany Div. ; near Teafontein between Riebeek East and Grahamstown, 

 Bftrekdl, 3406 1 Yar. f^ : Malinesbury Div. ; Malmesbury, ^chlerhter, 5348 ! 

 Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountain, Dri'je, 2197 \ Ca^-e Div. ; mountains near Cape 

 Town, Ecklon & Ze i}ha\ Euphorb, 14 ! 



26. E. foliosa (N. E. Br.) ; a dwavf shrul^lot, 6-8 in. high, woody 

 at the older parts, much l)ranched at the base; branches rather 

 crowded, erect, simple, glabrous or very minutely pubeiiilous, 

 densely leafy or the basal part naked and lough with prominent leaf- 

 scars ; leaves alternate, with whorls of 4-5 under the uuibels, 

 crowded, ascending aud more or less imbricate, suLsessilc, 1-3^ Hn. 

 l*^^igj I" 2 lin. broad, somewhat obovate, oblong, elliptic or elliptic- 

 oblong, obtu.se, with a recurved apiculus at the apex, minutely 

 scabrous (not ciliato) at the margin, rather thick in texture, 

 glabrous on both sides j umbels terminal, 3-ray(?d, |-| in. in diam. ; 

 rajrs 2-7 lin. long, simple or once-f urla^d ; bracts 1 jj-2| lin. long, 

 -i-3^ lin. broad, somewhat rhonjboidal -half-circular, very obtuse, 

 with a recurved apiculus, entire ov obscurely scabrous at the margins ; 

 involucres sessile, 1^-2 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, 

 puberulous within, with 4 glands and 5 erect oblong deeply bifid 

 lobes ; glands ^--| lin. in their greater diam., transverse, with the 

 inner margin broadly rounded, and the outer margin nearly straight 

 and minutely denticulate or concave and produced into a slight 



