JEitphor'bia A 



.). 281 



1 lin. long, ovoid, subobtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 

 rugose. E. TlrncaUl, Thnnl. Prodr. 8G, and FL Cap, ed, SchulL 

 ^OOy partly y as to the right-hand i^pecimcn on sheet 3 of his ILrlarium^ 

 not oj Linn, E, scop[formis (serpiformis), Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 

 errata and 75, partly. Arthrothamnns ErJclonri, Klotzsch d^ Garcke 

 in Ahhandl Akad. Berlin, 1S60, 63, as to Ecklon d: Zryhor, 23, and 

 24 partly, not as to 25, nor description. A. mopiformin^ Klotzsch d* 

 Garrkey Ix. 63. — Tiihymalus taberosus^ aphylliis, dc. Burm. Bar. Afr, 



PL 11, /. 5. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; near Brakfontein, ErlclontScZeyher^ Eupborb, 

 24 partly ! Tulbagh Div. ; Piquetberg Koad (Gouda), Schlechtrr, 4850 I CapeDiv, ; 

 near Cape Town, Thunlcrg \ Jlarvcfj, 25! Eiet Valley, Bcrglusl Camps Bay, 

 Priori Green Point, Priori Lion Mountain, Frocmhlmg, 124! above the road 

 beyond Sea Point, WoUey-Dod, 1777 1 Cape Flats, Munil iSc Maircl Stellenbo.^ch 

 Div. ; near Somerset West, Fddon c(- Zcylur, Euphorb. 23 \ Lowrys Pass, Scklcchter, 



According to reports received from Dr. ^lailotli and 3Iajor AV'olley-Dad, this 

 species would appear to be now very scarce in the vicinity of Cape Town, and the 

 female plant is decidedly rare, as only two of the specimens seen are of that sex. 



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The specimen collected by Bergius in Riet Valley is the type of Arthmthamnus 

 '^copiformi^j Klotzsch & Garcke, and is identical with the"^ type of Euphorbia 

 (^rcciithohioidcSj Boiss. Both of these names were published in 1S60, and in the 

 same year the name E, scoptformi^^ Boiss., was also published. But as this name 

 seems to have been actually published at a later date than thai of E. ai'ceuthobioides, 

 and as Boissier included under it (according to the specimens he quotes) two 

 distinct species, one of them being E. arrcrta, N. E. Br., it seems advisable to 

 adopt the name E. arccutJiolwiihs in preference to that of E. scopiformiyf. Boissier, 

 under E. arceidliohloldes, quotes the collectors of the type as Echlon tt Zcyhcr, 76, 

 he has here, however, mistaken the locality number for the distribution number, 

 which should be FrJcJon (k Zcyhery 24 partly, the number 76 which appears on the 

 label is merely the locality number, and indicates that the plant was collected near 

 Brakfoiitein, by the Olifants Kiver, see Linnmi, xix. 583 and 589. The other 

 part of Echlon d: Zeyher^ 24, belongs to E. rliomhifolia^ var. cymosa, N. E. Br., and 

 comes from another region. 



^ Some specimens collected on Hex River Mountains in Worcester Div. (Drege, 

 S204, Tyson, 649) are nearly related to E. arceuthobiaides, but appear to be 

 distinct, the material at my disj^osal is, however, insufficient to decide this point. 

 The Hex River plant requires to be compared in the living state with E. arceutho- 

 otoides to form a correct opinion. 



53. E. spartaria (N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl Trop. Afr. vi, i. 558); a 

 succulent, leafless and spineless bush or shrublct, |-1 ft. or more high, 

 trichotomously branched, dioecious ; branches opposite, in 2-3 pairs, 

 diverging from each other at an angle of 40''-70'', terete, ^-li lin. 

 thick, witli internodes f-2 in. long, slightly curved-ascending, 



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seen as bracts under the involucres and shorter than or about equal- 

 ling them, |-1 lin, long, obovate-spathulate, with the broad petiole 

 rather gradually dilated into the obovate or orbicular-obovate 

 Wade, subacute, very obtusely rounded or minutely 3-toothed at the 

 apex, concave-channelled and minutely puberulous down the face, 

 usually persisting; durin<? the tlowerinc; period or whilst the fruit is 



niatiiring j cymes ^mall, of 3 involucres, either on a pair of branchlets 



r~i in. long at the apex of the branches or on 2-3 pairs of short 



