288 EUPiioiiBiACE^ (Brown). \_EnpltorUa. 



witL ascendlno-spreuding deeply bifiJ straight tips ; seeds 1 lin. 

 long, somewhat ovoid, pointed at one end, slightly d-angled, rugose^ 

 dark grey, E, decussafa, 3IarLl in Wissensclt. Ergehn. Deutseh. 

 Tiefsee-E.q)ed. ii. iii. 225, Jir/. 87, 7iot of E, Meyer. Arthrofhamnus 

 ■densiflorus, Klotzsch tC Garcke in Ahhandl. Al'ad. Berlin, 1860, 62. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunherg\ 



Coast Region : Kobertsoii Div. ; Moutagii, Marloth, 2S05 ! Oudtslioorn Div. ; 

 Karoo near the Olifaiits River, Mund i(- Moire I 



Cemkal Region : LaingsLurg Div. ; near Laing-sburg, JIarlotk, 3904 ! Matjes- 

 fontein, Marloth, 4854 ! Beaufort West Div. ; Nieuwveld Mountains, near 

 Beaufort AVest, Marloth, 4878 ! Prince Albei-t Div. ; stony hills near Prince 

 Albert, Bolus, 11634! Somerset Div, ; Sheldon, Ilutton \ 



This species is quoted by Boissier in DC, Prodi\ xv. ii. 75, as a synon^^m of 

 E. decussata, E. Meyer, but although it has a slight resemblance to that plant, it 

 is not so stout, its branches are less divergent, apparently less rigid and 

 have not such a tendency to end in somewhat ^pine-like points, whilst the bracts, 

 instead of gradually tapering from base to apex, are suborbicular or oblong, 

 obtuse and apiculate, not so thin nor concave, but thick, fleshy and somewhat 

 concave or flat on tlie upper surface ; also the plant is a native of a different 

 region. 



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As the name densiflora has been used for another species it cannot be retained 

 for this one. The type specimens from which my description is made are Marloth, 

 2S05, 3904 and 4878, which are identical with the type of Arthrothamnus densl- 

 Jlorus, collected by Mund, after whom it is named. 



62. E. macella (X. E. Br.) ; a succulent, leafless and spineless shrub 



*'4 ft. high'^ (Burclit'll), uui::.exual ; branches opposite, diverging 

 from one another at an angle of 40^-00°, terete, smooth, wrinkled 

 when dried, glabrous ; leaves opposite, soon deciduous, only seen as 

 bracts under the involucres, | lin. lung, spathulate, with ^a rather 

 broad petiole and a short abruptly dilated terminal part, broadly 

 rounded or subtruncate at the apex, minutely puberulous near the 

 base, glabrous elsewhere, when young, with small round glands at 

 their base; cvmes racemoselv arranwd aloii^ the branchlets, 3-4 

 lin. in diam,, simple, with 3 involucres or once forked and bearing 

 7 involucres, the lateral on pediceMike cyme-branches i-| lin. long, 

 with a pair of bracts close under each; involucre 1^-1^- lin. in 

 diam., cup-shaped, minutely puberulous all over outside, with 5 

 glands and 5 rectangular toothed lobes ; glands not contiguous^ 

 f — J- lin. in their greater diam., transverse, narrowly oblong, entire, 

 convex, "green" {BurcTielJ) : female plant not seen. 



Coast Region : Mossel Bay Div. ; near Little Brak River, Eurchell, 6197/'- ! 



63. E. hastisquama (N. E. Br.) ; apparently about 3-6 in. high, 

 with numerous crowded trichotomuusly divided branches, glabrous ; 

 branches opposite, ^-1 lin. thick (dried), terete; leaves rudimentary, 

 scale-like, opposite, sessile, J lin, long, deltoid-hastate, with the 

 apex and basal lobes acute, recurved, blackish-brown, glabrous ; 

 involucre solitary at the apex of the terminal branchlets, sessile, 

 about 1 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, pubescent within, 

 with 5 glands in the male (and perhaps 4 in the female) and 5 very 



