272 EuniORBiACE.E (Brown). \Eitpliorlia. 



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Great Karas Eerg region at Aus. Pearson^ 80-30 ! and on liill slopes south of 

 Krai Kluft, Pearson, 8110 I Pange, 819 ! 



38. E. spinea. (N. E. Br.) ; leafless bush, |-| ft. high, with rigid 

 spine-tipped branches 1-2 lin. thick, opposite and diverging from 

 each other at an angle of 1 00*^-1 GS"^, the primary and secondary being 

 3-6 in. long and the ultimate |-2 in. long, all ending in an acute 

 spinCj glabrous, prol)ably glaucous, with a somewhat succulent bark, 

 which at the tips or on old branchlets dries and separates into 

 rings by the formation of transverse cracks all round the branch ; 

 leaves very rudimentary, deciduous, opposite, ^ lin. long, sessile or 

 nearly so, ovate or deltoid-ovate, acute, glabrous, blackish-purple; 

 cymes lateral on the ultimate branchlets, small and dense, sessile or 

 subsessile, 2-3 lin. long and 2^-4 lin. in diam., 3- to several- 

 flowered ; bracts scale-like, ^ lin, long and about one-third as long as 

 the involucre, linear-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, purple. ; involucre 

 1 lin. in diam. and as much in depth, but appearing longer than 

 broad, somewhat urceolate, being slightly constricted under the 

 glands, glabrous outside, pubescent within, purple, with 5 glands 

 and 5 uiinute oblong ciliate lobes ; glands not quite contig 

 ascending-spreading, ^-i- lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 oblong or olliptic-obloug, two-lipped, from the inner margin being 

 turned up, concave in front of it, entire ; ovary and capsule not 

 seen. 



Central Rkoton : Calvinia Div. ; plentiful on sandy plains about 12 miles 

 nortli-east of KHpplaat, 1700 ft., Pearson, 3296! 



Wksteux Ri:aiox : Great Naiuaqualaud ; cuunuon among rocks near Dabiigabisj 

 Pearson, 4380 ! on a saline flat north of Ganus, 3300 ft., Pearson, 4585 ! 



Both Namaqualand specimens arc stated to be only 6-9 inches high, whilst the 

 Calvinia specimen is stated on the label to be 2-3 ft. high. The latter, however, 

 is so exactly like the Namaqualand specimens that I suspect a mistake has been 

 made in the labelling of it, and that the label probably belongs to the allit-d 

 E. da-asb'ata, E. Meyer, which does grow in Calvinia and is 2-3 ft. high ; a apeouuen 

 of it was also receive<l at Kew frotn Prof. Pearson without a label. 



39. E, decussata (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 

 181, ex Coiss, in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 74, excl. syn.) ; a divaricately 

 much-branched leafless bush, 2-3 ft. higli, dia>cious ; main stems 

 3-4 lin. thick ; branches opposite, diverging from each other at an 

 angle of 90''-150^, rigid, l-'Ji- Hn. thick, articulated at the base, 

 straight or slightly curved, apparently more or less succulent when 

 young, or with a succulent bark, tapering to a more or less acute 

 but scarcely spine-like apex, glabrous ; leaves rudimentary, opposite, 

 scale-like, sessile, persisting for a short period, ?,-§ lin. long, broadly 

 deltoid-ovate, acute, finally recurved, concave, rigid, glabrous, at first 

 green, becoming dark brown or blackish ; cy es very short, com- 

 pact, ;|™^ in. in diam., opposite, one to four pairs to a branch or 

 rarely solitary ; bracts like the leaves; involucres sessile, 1-1 J lin. 



in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, with 5 glands and 5 oblong 

 subentire or toothed and minutely ciliate lobes; glands J-5 lin. -in 



