Ef'phorUa,'] EUPiior.BiACE.E (Erown). 273 



their greater diam., transversely elliptic-oblon^, entire ; capsule 

 1-^ lin. in diam., obtusely 3-lobed, with a small disc-like calyx at its 

 basej glabrous, uiinutely white-dotted, very shortly exserted from 

 the involucre on a recurved pedicel, erect when immature; styles 

 shortly united at the base, ^-l lin. long, spreading, with bitid 

 revolute tips ; seeds nearly 1 lin. long, conical, acute, truncate at 

 the base, slightly 4-angled, tuberculate-rugose, g»*ey. E, TinteaUi, 

 Thunh, Frodr. 86, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schulf, 405, parihj^ a>i to sheet 2, 

 left-hand specimen In Thiuibenjs Herbarium. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunhergl 



Cemhal Region : Calvinia Div. ; between Lospers Plaats and Sprinkbok Knil 

 Kiver, Zeyher, 1533 ! mountain pass south of Klipplaat, Pearson, 3853 ! ravine at 

 Loeriesfonteiiij Pearson, 4858 ! Ceres Di\-. ; between Gansfontein and Pappekuil, 

 Pearson, 3685 ! 



Western- Hegiox : Great Namaqualaud ; opposite Sendlinga Drift^ Pearaon, 

 6105! Great Karas Eorg region, Pcarmi, 8117 1 8258! 8347 1 8348! Little 

 Namaqualand ; hills by the Koussie (Buffels) River, Brege, '' 392 V (not 3926 as 

 quoted by Boissier) ! Krapohl, Mavlotk, 4895 \ plam between Aggenys and Pella, 

 Pearson, 3580! slopes north of Middelkraal, Pearson, 5618! Van Bhynsdorp- 

 Div. ; near Eakhuis, Pearson, 5468 ! 



40, E. brachiata (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 184, 

 ex Boiss. in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 74 partly) ; a dwarf much-brancliecl 

 shrubletj leafless and spineless ; branches and bi'anchlets opposite 

 or forking, jointed and more or less constricted at their origin, 

 diverging from each other at an angle of 100°- 180"^, fleshy when 

 young, glabrous, rusty-brown when dried ; leaves rudimentary, 

 deciduous, opposite, sessile, abruptly recurved, 1 lin. long, deltoid, 

 acute, angular on each side at the base, concave-channelled du^^ n 

 the face, rigid when dried, glabrous ; cymes terminal, i-^ in. in 

 diam., consistinjx of two diverain^; branchlets about 1 lin. loni;- each 



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bearing 3 sessile involucres; bracts much shorter than the in- 

 volucres, about ^ lin. long and 4 lin. broad when flattened, broadly 

 deltoid, apiculate, concave, ghibrous ; involucres sessile, 1 Hn. in 

 diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4-5 glands and 5 oblong fringed 

 lobes ; glands about l liu. in their greater diam., transversely 

 oblong, entire ; ovary and capsule not seen. 



Coast liKGiox : ^'an Rhynsdorp Div. ; hills near Ebenezer, Dre^/e, 2948 ! 



Under the name of E. brachiata, Drege distributed two distinct but allied 

 epecies, both of which seem to be included in Boissier's description. I have taken 

 ^s the type, F, brachiata, E. Meyer, letter "a," which in E, Meyer's Herbarium 

 at Lul^ck bearti the number"^ 2948, as quoted by Boissier and is named 

 '*-£*. brachiata'* in E. Meyer's handwriting, none of the specimens seen of this 

 bear any ovary or capsule upon them. Under letter '*b" an entirely different 

 species was distributed, described below as E. perpera, N. E. Br., which was 

 collected over 200 miles farther north, near the Orange River and bears female 

 lowers aiKl fruit, and it is from this species that I believe Boissier to have described 

 the styles and fruit under F. brachiata, no specimen of it, however, exists in 

 ^leyer^s Herbarium at Liibeck. The plant figtired by Burmann. PI. Afr. Par. t. 5, 

 also quoted by Boissier under E brachiata, belongs to a_ totally different species 

 \E, arccuthobioides, Boiss.), which grows in a different region. 



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