Eitphurhia^^ EUFllOKJUACE.K (Brown;. 207 



stem .simple at the hase, branching above ; branches often chistered 

 in groups, densely leafy throughout or nalNcd and rough with 

 prominent leaf-scars below, ^vith dark reddish bark, minutely 

 puberulous or glahrous on the young parts; leaves alternate, 

 rather crowded, sessile, spreading, deflexed or upcurved, J-1 (very 

 rarely 1}) in. long, -|-H (^ery rarely 2-3) I'm, broad, linear or 

 oblong-linear, obtuse or acute, mucronate, entire or rarely with 

 the mai-gins at the apex minutely denticulate, flat or with revolute 

 margins, glabrous on both sides, those of the whorl at the base of 

 the umbel often larger, oblong to ovate and up to i^ lin. broad; 

 umbels, terminal |-3 in. in diam., 3-8-rayed, and often with rays 

 arising from the axils of the leaves below the umbel ; rays r-SA 

 in. long, 1-4-tinies forked, glabrous, when short the umbel is 

 usually congested and head-like; bracts H-6 lin. long, 2-8 lin. 

 broad, broadly rhomboid-uvate or somewhat half-circular, very 

 obtuse, apiculate, glabrous; in\olucres Ll-2'A- lin, in diam., cup- 

 shaped, glabrous outside, with 4-5 glands and 5 oblong subentire 



emargniate or shortly bifid ciliate lobes; glands |-1J lin. in their 

 greater diam., transverse, usually more or less crescent-shaped, 

 witli 2 straight or incurved horns |-1 lin. long, but sometimes 

 with the horns very reduced or obsolete; capsule l|-2 lin. iii 

 diam., tricoccous, glabrous, exeerted on a pedicel |-2 lin. beyond 

 the involucre; styles free or very shortly united at the base, |-1| 

 lin. long, Intid at the apex, usually upcurved from the decurved 

 ovary and immature fruit; seeds rather more than 1 lin. long, 

 obJong, with a large depression at the caruncular end and a small 

 ring-like marking at the opposite end, smooth, blackish-grey when 

 quite ripe. Bernhardi hi Flora, 1845, 87, and in Krauss, BeHr. FL 

 Cap- und Natal 150. E. involucrata, E. Meyer in Brhjc, Zwei Pji. 

 Docinacnte, 184, ex Boiss, in DC, Prodr. xvii. 1G8 inch var, 

 ^nv<j((stc(/uu E. BacJimanniy Pax in EnyJ. Jahrh, xxiii. 535, 

 TttJfjmalus involaeralas, Klotzsch it Garde in Ahhandl Al'ad. 

 Berlin, I860, 91. 



Vau. P^ puberula(X. E. Er.) ; leaves uiiautely toothed or entire at the margins 

 ftbout the apex ; involucre (at leadt ou the upper part) more w Jess pu^erulous ; 

 ovary puberulous or pubescent. 



Var. 7, Wahlbergii (N. E. Br.) ; branches more slender than in the type or 

 ' ^' 2-3 li^i- thick, rather laxly leafy ; leaves entire or minutely denticulate ; 

 "nibels small and lax, ^-1 in. in diam., 3-5-rayed, often proliferous ; bracts 2-2J 

 "tu long, lJ-3 lin. broad, broadly ovate or transverse and subrhomljoid, acute or 

 very obtuse, apiculate ; mvoIiicre=> IJ-IJ Hn. in diam. ; glands § lin. in their 

 greater diam. ; capsule IJ lin. in diam., glabrous ; styles ^^ lin. long ; otherwise 

 as m the type. E, Wahlbergu, Bom. hi DO. Prodr, xv. ii. 169, and Ic. Euphorl, 

 ^^, M12. E^epicyparhsku as to letter c, K M' yer in Dreje, Zwei Pfi. Dociimente, 



ijo-t- Tlthi/iualus epkifparmias, Klotzsch iSc GarcJce in AbhandL Akad, Bwhn, 

 I860, 88. i Jr y 



South Africa : without locality, Thimhcrg ! Krchs ! Zcyher, 1540 ! 



Coast Rf.giox ; Oudt^shoorn 

 near George, Burchell, 5993 

 J^oukamma River, Barchell 

 wtween Haarlem and A^ 

 Alexandria Div. ; betw 



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