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278 ELrFiioRBTAf'EJ-: (Browu). [EiqfliorUa. 



inflorescence an irregular coi^ymb of cymes, conspicuously marked 

 at the nodes with large persistent dark brownish-red stipular 

 glands ; leaves opposite, spreading, deciduous, 1-1 ^ lin. long, 

 spathulate, puberulous on the upper side of the proportionately 

 broad petiole, otherwise glabrous ; blade ]^-\ lin. in diam., rhomboid 

 or suborbicular-rliomboid, or those on the flowering part transversely 

 oblong, acute to obtuse, flat or concave ; inflorescence terminal^ 

 consisting of 3 branches or of 2-3 pairs of branches once or twice 

 forked, forming a cyme or a raceme of cymes 1-2 in, long and 

 1-1 J in. in diam., with the ultimate branches each bearing 3 

 crowded involucres ; bracts of the same form and size as the 

 leaves ; involucres sessile, unisexual, l^-^f lin. in diam., cup- 

 shaped or A^ery broadly and shallowly obconic, minutely puberulous, 

 with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate toothed lobes ; glands ^-| liu. in 

 their greater diam., transversely oblong, entire, dull yellowish- 

 green; capsule lA-lf lin. in diam., obtusely trigonous, minutely 

 velvety, exserted on a i:>edicel equalling the involucre in length, 

 erect; styles free to the base, }^ lin. long, spreading, minutely 

 notched at the apex and with a line-like channel down the face; 

 seeds nearly 1 lin. long, oblong, slightly pointed at one end, 

 4-angled, irregularly tuberculate on the faces, glabrous. -E. vi'mi- 

 nalis, Burm, Proth\ PL Cap. 14, ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 75, 

 not of Linn. E, Tirucalli, Thanh. Prodr. 86 and Fl Cap. ed. Schult. 

 405, as to one specimen on sheet 3 of lua Herbarium. E. hifjhtn- 

 diiJom, WUhL Enum. PL Hart. BeroL SnppL 27, not of Desfontahps 

 nor of Boiss. Arthrothamnus Ecllonii, KJotzsch d GarcJce^ Lc. 63. 

 as to description and Erl'loVj Euphorl). 25j hit not 23 <C' 24. A. 

 Bergii, Klotzsch it Garcke, Lc. 63. 



South Africa: without locality, Thunlo'fjl 



Coast Rkgion : Van Rhynsdorp Div. ; Gift Berg, Phillips, 7037 I Clauwilliam 

 Div. ; near Clauwilliam, Leipoldt, 'I'll ! Doom River, Schhrhter, 8058 ! Tiqwet- 

 berg Div. ; mountain sides, Het Kruis, J/mes Stephens d: Glover, 8752 ! Tikeniers 

 Pass, Pearson, 5211 ! Mahuesbury Div. ; near Darling, Bcirhmann, 402 ! 10^5 ! 

 Marloth, 4014! Muorreesbiirg, Barhmnnn, 1046 t Prezant Huek. near Hnpefiekl, 

 Bnchmnnn, 21M ! near Groene Kloof, Bolus, 4360 ! Tulbagh Div. ; New Kioof, 

 MacOwan, 3225! eind in Herb. A".^tr.'Afr„ 20021 i>«VZs, ISa ! near Tulbagli 

 AVaterfall, SMevhter, 1418! Cape Div. ; Blue Berg, Dregel Rubertsou Div.; 

 Montagu, 400 ft., Marloth, 3270 ! 



Central Region : fCeres Div. ; Ceres Karoo, Marloih, 5102 ! 



WlsTEKN- Regiox: Little Naniaqualand : Kauiaggaa, ScIiuUze, 178 ! and witlntut 

 precise locality, Alston in Herb. MarhM, 4894 ! 



Partly descril_>ed from a living cultivated plant. 



Of the type sheets of Avthrothnwnvn FrUoiiii, Klotzscli & Oarcke, in the Berlin 

 Herbarium, Euphorbia 25, Eckion & Zeyher, is the only specinun of the tliree 

 quoted by Klotxsch & Garcke that agrees*^ with their description, tlie others have 

 not the characteristic stipulary glands. This specimen bears the locality number 

 82, indicating that it \\a.^ collected near Uitenliage, but thi^ locality is almost 

 certainly an error, ari no other collector has found this specie:^ so far to tlie 

 eastward, and many species of this group are so similav that it may easily have 

 been mistaken for an eastern species. Several error.s of this kind have been made 

 in the distribution of Eckluu 1- Zeyher's plants. 



The type of Arthrothamnus TtrucalU, Klotzsch & Garcke {Eupliorhla 22, 

 Eckion & Zeyher), consists of two branches of Effphorbia maitritanica and two of 



