

Euphorlla.] euphokiuacej-; (Brown). 270 



E. Bnrmanni ; the locality number 85, upon the label, indicates that they were 

 collected on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, but I believe tliis only to refer 

 to the branches of E, inauritanlca, as E, Bnrmanni appears not to occur there. 



49. E. corymbosa (X. E. Br.) ; a braucliing leafless and spineless 

 succulent shrub, 1 or more ft. high, clicecious ; main stems l|-2 liu. 

 thick (dried) ; branches opposite or occasionally alternate, terete, 

 glabrous, the terminal ending in rather dense corymbose cymes; 

 leaves rudimentary and soon deciduous, probably like the bracts 

 in size and form, not seen; corymbs all terminal, 1^-2|- in. in 

 diam., densely niuny-flowered, composed of numerous small cymes; 

 [ bracts 1 lin. long, s])reading, spathulate, with the small transverse 



concave subtruncate or triangular blade much shorter than the 

 broad linear petiole, glabrous, green ; ultimate cymes of the male 

 plant 2 J— 4 lin. in diam., consisting of very short branchlets bearing 

 3-7 sessile involucres \--\\ lin. in diam., obconic, glabrous outside" 

 and within, with 5 glands and 5 minute subquadrate toothed lobes ; 

 lands contiguous, spreading, -J-i lin, in their greater diam., trans- 

 versely oblong or subreniform ; female plant not seen. 



Coast Hegion : Eiversdale Div. ; near Albertina. Mvir ! 



^^ ell distinguished from its allies by the small cjones being crowded into rather 

 large Hat -tupped corymbs. 



50. E. Angrse (X. E. Br., angrana by error on p. 232 ante) : a 

 inuch-branched leafless and spineless bush, perhaps dwarf ; main 

 branches \ in. thick, the ultimate about 1 lin. thick, crowded, 

 repeatedly forked, subcylindric or slightly compressed, constricted 

 at the nodes, with internodes or joints \-\ in. long, smooth, glabrous ; 

 leaves rudimentary, opposite, scale-like, §-J lin. long, 1-1 J Hn, broad, 

 ses^sile, very broadly subcordate-ovate or subreniform, subacute or 

 apiculate, rather thick and fleshy, puberulous on the upper side, 

 glabrous beneath, reddish-brown ; cymes rather dense, terminal., 

 formed of the very numerous and very short articulations into winch 

 the. branches divide, each ultimate joint with 1-3 involucres at its 

 apex; bracts like the leaves ; involucres sessile, 1^-2 lin. in diam., 

 cup-shaped or somewhat obcunic, glabrous outside, pul>escent within, 

 with 5 (or perhaps sometimes more) glands and 2 or more small fleshy 

 3~toothed lubes, sometimes replaced by reduced glands, or absent ; 

 glands irregular in size, contiguous, spreading, i— 1 lin. in their greater 

 diam., transverse, subreniform or the smaller subelliptic, minutely 

 pitted ; capsule about 2 lin. in diam., rather deeply 3-lobed, glabrous, 

 exserted on a pedicel slightly longer than the involucre ; styles free 

 to the base, at first erect, afterwards spreading, h lin. long, shortly 

 bifid, with slender diverging lobes at the apex ; seeds not seen. 



WESTi;RX Kegiox: Great Xamaqualand ; Angra Pequena, Galpin d: Pearson. 



51. E. asquoris (N. E. Bn); a dwart succulent leafless and spine- 

 less shrublet, 8 or 9 in. hiidi and 4-6 in. in diam., much-branched, 



