^upJiorUa.] EUPHOPtBiACE^ (Brown), 271 



puberulous on both sides; flowering branchlets devclopecl in the 

 axils of the fallen leaves, 1-2?, lin. long, minutely piiberulouSj 

 bearing a few small leaves and bracts and a terminal involucre ; 

 bracts obovate, sessile, thinner than the leaves ; involucre 2 lin. in 



diani., cup-shaped, glabrous, hermapln-odite or male with a rudi- 

 mentary ovary, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate sliglitly notched 

 denticulate or subciliate lobes : i^^lands |-1 lin. in their ijreater 

 diam., transversely elliptic-oblong, entire ; perfect ovary partly (or 

 shortly?) exserted, erect, glabrous, with a very small 3-lobed calyx 

 at its base ; lobes very short, emarginate ; styles nearly 1 lin. long, 

 united at the base for a quarter of their length, then recurved- 

 spreading with slightly thickened entire tips ; rudimentary ovary 

 with minute erect styles scarcely \ lin. long ; capsule J in. in diam.,' 

 very obtusely 3-angled, smooth, exserted on a curved pedicel 1^-1 J 

 lin. long; seeds l| lin. long, compressed-ellipsoid, smooth, glabrous. 



Wkstkrx Region : Great NamaqualanJ ; rocky places south of Korekvas, 

 Oarich, 73 ! Little Nainaqualaud ; hills at Fus, Scldtditer^ 11433 1 



37. E. lignosa (xVlarloth in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. i. 316 and 

 317, fig. 2) ; a dwarf densely much-branched bush, forming a 

 hemispheric cushion up to 3 ft. in diam., and |— 1 ft. high; main 

 stem very stout, somewhat globose at the crown from which the 

 branches arise, descending as a thick carrot-shaped root ; main 

 branches very numerous, repeatedly divided into short alternate 

 spine-like or sharp-pointed branchlets, soft and succulent when 

 young, becoming rigitl, glabrous ; lea^'es alternate, only present on 

 very young branches, 1^-5 lin. long, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate 

 or sometimes obovate, acute, tapering near the base into a short 

 petiole, longitndinally folded, recurved, very minutely puberulous ; 

 flowering branches with 1 terminal sessile involucre or with 1 sessile 

 and 1 or 2 lateral involucres on peduncle-like branches -J-J in. long, 

 forming a 2-3-flowered cyme, very minutely puberulous ; bracts 

 about 2-2^ lin. long and l|-2 lin. broad, orbicular-obovate and 

 apiculate, or broadly cuneate, subtruncate and minutely toothed, 

 very minutely puberulous on both sides; involucre 3^-5 lin. in 

 diam., shallowly cup-shaped, very minutely puberulous, with 5 glands 

 and :") transverse rectanirular lobes fringed with numerous subulate 



teeth along the truncate top ; glands obliquely cup-like or funnel- 

 shaped, with 4-9 entire or bifid channelled fmger-Hke processes 

 1-J lin. long along the outer margin, glabrous in the cavity, very 

 ininutely puberulous outside ; capsule sessile, erect, w^ith its base 

 embraced by tlie remains of the involucre, 2i lin. in diam., globose, 

 very minutely puberulous; styles 1-1^- lin. long, united nearly 

 to the top, with 3 spreading bifid arms \-\ lin. long ; seeds 1^- 

 lin, long, ovoid, acute at one end, somewhat 3-angled, smooth. 



i^labrous. 



*V\esterx Kegiox; Great Namaqiialand ; "stony ground near Tschaukaib, 

 2i*00 ft., Marloth, 4637! Kleinfontein, Mavloth, 5070! Akam River, Pearson, 

 41i59 I plains and muuntain sides at Schakalsknppe, 4900-5600 ft., Pearson, 41f>0 ! 



