Buphorlia^] el'PHORBTAce.e (Brown). 287 



Lraiiclie^ U-2 lin. thick (dried), lateral branches r-l lin. thick, 

 opposite, diverging from each other at an angle of about 70^^-80^ 

 and rising in a corymbose manner to about the same level, distinctly 

 6-angled, with slight furrows bet^\een the angles, rough from 

 minute hard papilLe ; leaves rudimentary, opposite, abruptly re- 

 flexed from their base, 1-1^ lin. long and as much in breadth, 

 triangular-subhastate in outline from a minute spreading point or 

 angle at their base, fleshy, purplish-black (dried), glabrous ; cymes 

 small, about ^^j— ^ in. long and \—^ in. in diam., in opposite pairs 

 racemosely arranged along the branches; bracts about § lin. long, 

 ^'ery broadly obovate or suborbicular, sometimes with a minute 

 tooth on one or both sides at or below the middle, subapiculate, 

 fleshy, glabrous, dark purple; involucre about IJ lin. in diam., 

 cup-shaped, glabrous, dark purple, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate 

 minutely toothed lobes ; glands ^^-\ lin. in diam., transversely 



elliptic or suborbicular, entire, dark j)urple ; ovary and capsule 

 nut seen. 



. Central Rkcjion : Murrajsburg Div. ;' on stony slopes of mountains near 

 .Alurray^^burg, iOOO ft., Tubou, 1G7 ! Beaufort AVost Div. ; Nieuwveld, Drt'je, 

 8218 partly! 



This species is nearly allied to H. n^prrtraidh^ Pax, but the leaves and bracts 

 are totally different in shape and much more fleshy^ and the involucres and their 

 glands are dark purple. Possibly a specimen collected at Melrose, Eastpoort, in 

 Bedford Div. by Bftrtt-lJaoi/, 12281, may belong here, but is too imperfect for 

 determiTiation. 



61. E. Mundii (N. E. Br.) ; a succulent bush, 1 ft. or more high, 

 leafless and spinelessj unisexual ; main stems H-3 lin. thick ; 

 brandies opposite, diverging from each other at an angle of 

 60*^-90°, articulated at their origin, niosfly simple, not spine- 

 pointed, glabrous and neither papillate nor asperate; leaves rudi- 

 mentary, scale-like, opposite, sessile, recurved, |— 1 lin. long and 

 as much in breadth, suborbicular, broadly ovate or oblong, some- 

 times angular on each side near the l)ase, obtuse, minutely 

 apiculate, fleshy, rigid, persisting for rt time, dark brown or 

 reddish ; cymes rather numorous, opposite, 4-6 lin. long and about 

 as broad, racemosely arranged along the branches, at first Avith 3, 

 but often ultimately producing several involucres, at least in the 

 male plant, and their internodcs or joints as thick as long and 

 somewhat bead-like, glabrous; bracts shorter than the involucres, 

 like the Itaves in form and colour, glabrous; involucre 1|~1J lin. 

 in diam., somewhat campanulate and as long as broad in the male, 

 obconic-cup-shaped and Inrmder than long in the female, glabrous, 

 with D glands and 5 subquadrangular or transveraely rectangular 

 minutely toothed lobes; ghmds not contiguous, ^—J lin. in their 

 greater diam., transverseU" oblong or elliptic-oblong, entire; capsule 

 not longer than broad,"^ li'lf ^^^' ^^ diam,, obtusely 3-lobed, 

 glabrous, exserted (as is also the ovary) on a pedicel about ^ lin. 

 longer than the involucre; styles very shortly united at the base, 



