20G Eurnoi:BiACE.4-: (Brown). , [EupJicrrbicL 



South Africa: without locality, Sanywrat ! Mnnd d; Maire, 27 ! 



Coast Heuion: Swellenclam Div. ; bet^veen Swelleudam and the Biiffeljagtf^ 

 lliver, Pappe \ George Div. ; near George, Pnor ! KnysuaDiv. ; Plettenbergs Bay 

 or Outeni(jua Mountains, Dre(j€ ! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadeca Iviver, BarchcU, 

 4651 ! Van Stadens Berg, EcHon & Zajher, Euphorb. 5 ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; 

 Port Elizabeth, Drege, 81 ! Baakens Eiver Valley, Mrs. Paterson, 843 ! Bathurst 

 Div. ; near Kaffir Drift, Burckell, 3772 ! Eastern Frontier^ Ilatton ! 



31. E, natalensis (Bernhardi in Flora, 1845, 86, and in Krauss, 

 Beitr. Fl Cap- und Natal. 150); perennial; stems several from a 

 woody rootstock, A-l^ or rarely up to 2\ ft. high, simple or with 

 a pair or wlioi'l of 3-4 branches near the top, woody below, densely 

 leafy above, naked at the base, glabrous or puberulous ; leaves 

 sessile, deflexed and mure or less imbricating downwards, straight 

 or with the tips upcur\ed, 3-10 lin. long, |^-3 lin. broad, linear, 

 with or without a dilated cordate base, or elongated ovate, cordate 

 at the base, acute or subobtuse, mucronate, revolute at the 

 margins, the whorl under the umbel often larger, flatter and more 



oblong, glabrous on both sides or rarely minutely puberulous 

 beneath ; umbel terminal, head-like with very ishort rays and 

 ^-1 in. in diam. or up to 2 in. in diam. with once or twice-forked 

 glabrous or puberulous rays up to 1|- in. long; bracts 2-4 A bii. 

 long, l|-5l lin. broad, varying from broadly ovate to ovate- 

 subrhomboid, usually broader than long, obtuse or slightly notched 

 at the apex, apiculate, glabrous; involucre li-2^- lin. in diam., 

 cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 oblong acutely bifid, 

 toothed or subentire lobes; glands ^-1-^- Hn. in their greater diam., 

 varying from crescent-shaped and two-horned with the two horns 

 often incurved towards each other^ to transversely oblong and 

 detiticulate on the outer margin ; capsule lf-2 J lin. in diam., 



slightly narrowing upwards, glabrous, exserted on a recurved 

 pedicel l|-3 lin. long ; styles §-f lin, long, usually upcur\"ed from 

 the decurved ovary, united at the base or for one-third of then* 

 length, bitid at the apex, with spreading tips; seeds 1-1 i 5in. long, 

 ellipsoid, smooth, black, with a small yellowish-white caruncle. 

 Boim. in DC, Pnxlr. xv. ii. 170 ; Wood, Natal PL iv, L 302, 



Kalahaki REorON : Transvaal ; Ermelo, Purtt-Dmy, 5402 ! 



Eastern Kjegion : Teinbuland ; Bazeia moimtaina, Baur, 511 ! Pondolaud, 

 Bachrmnn, 751 ! 753 ! Griqualand East ; near Kok;itad, Tijson, 1541 ! J!n>jgnrth 

 hi Ilcrh. Wood, 4195 I Natal ; various localities, Sutherland ! Gerrardj 524 ! 1172. 

 Sanderson, 65! 212! Krauss, 434! Wood, d! 238! 382! 1407 I 1429! 86f>6 ! 

 9599! and in Herb. Norm. AasU\-Afr., 1027! ScklcvhUr, 3086! 5770! Kantzel 

 iMiss Dokbjc ! Kolhc \ 



Thii is very similar to E. ericoidcs, Lam., but may be easily distingui^ihed from 

 that species by it^ acute leaven, larger involucre and more united biftd styles. ^ l*- 

 is variable in appearance, and some specimens resemble F. cpkyparissias, 

 E. Meyer, from which it U distinguished by its mimeroiis shorter and usually 

 simple or once or twice umbellately branched stems. E, epicyparissias is 2-5 it. 

 high and much branched. 



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32. E. epicyparissias (E, Meyer in Drege, Zwei Ptl. Documente, 

 184, ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 168); a slirub, 2-5 ft. high; 



