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This much reseiiiLles K dccussaki, E. Meyer, and, as in that species, the bark 

 of the dead branchlets ci'ack.s transver.'^ely and breaks up into ringf*, but bosM-'s 

 its smaller and more cylindric involucres is readily distinguished by itr> green 

 sjiathulate rudimentiiry leaves and bracts, which are more quickly deciduous than 

 they are in £, dccussata. 



43. E. cibdela (N. E, Br.) ; a busli, 2-3 ft. high, leafless and 

 spineless, with the young branches succulent and the older with 

 a succulent bark, glabrous, green, apparently not glaucous, uni- 

 sexual ; branches opposite, diverging from each other at an angle 

 of 50^-60^, straight, 1-2 lin. thick, with internodes |-lj^ in. long, 

 all attaining to the same general level or the lower overtopping the 

 main ard upper branches, not asperate nor papillate ; leaves rudi- 

 mentary and soon deciduous, opposite, recurved-spreading, 1-1^ lin. 

 ^^^V?? h ^^^- broad and nearly as thick, narrowly lanceolate or 

 elliptic, acute or obtuse, apiculate, narrowed into a short petiole 

 at the base, glabrous, minutely ciliate on the margins of the 

 petiole : male in\ olucres solitary and terminal and also in small 

 terminal and lateral cymes, with a pair of leaf-like bracts at their 

 base, sessile or subsessile, 1^ lin. in diam. and 1 lin. deep, cup- 

 shaped, puberulous outside and pubescent with much longer hairs 

 within, with 5 2;lands and 5 rectan^cular ciliate lobes ; glands rather 

 aistant, ^-\ lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong or 

 elliptic-oblong, entire, with the inner margin turned up and 

 slight depression in front of it; female plant not seen. 



■ Western Eegion; Great Namaqualand ; hills at Schakafskuj^pe, 4900-5600 ft., 

 Pearson^ 442S ! 



44. E. amarifontana (X. E. Br.); a succulent leafless and spine- 

 less bush, 1 ft. or more high, divaricately branched ; main stems 

 ^^ lin. thick (dried) ; main branches opposite, lA-2 lin. thick, 

 diverging from each other at an angle of 60^-100^, with internodes 

 ^-2 in. long, tapering upwards and usually wnth one pair of lateral 

 branchlets below the forked or simple ends, sometimes simple, without 

 any branchlets, straight, each pair gradually shorter, so that the 

 '^^hole forms a flat-topped corymbose cyme at the end of each main 

 ^tem 8-12 in. in diam., glabrous, not papillate nor asperate; leaves 

 rudimentary, opposite, persisting for some time, ^ lin. long, sessile, 

 ovate or deltoid-ovate, acute, recurved, glabrous, dark brown or 

 blackish : cymes A^ery small and compact, sessile, terminating the 

 ultimate branchlets; bracts scale-like, ^ lin. long, broadly ovate, 

 subacute, adpressed to the involucre, glabrous, dark brown ; invo- 

 lucre 1 lin. long, I lin. in diam., or perhaps larger, somewhat ovoid- 



^^ampanulate, glabrous out^^ide, with 5 glands and 5 broadly cuneate 



or subspathulate-obuvate ciliate lobes; glands -|-| lin, in their 

 greater tliam., transversely oblong, entire, somewhat 2-lipped from 

 the inner margin being turned up or inwards ; ovary, capsule and 

 seeds not seen. 



Westkrn Kegiox: Van Rhj-n^dorp Div. ; Bitterfontein, Ze^/her, 1534 ! between 

 J^itterfontein and Stinkfonteiu, Peanon, 5532 ! 



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