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Euplwrhia^] EuriiOKDiACE.E (Brown). 289 



small oblong or snbquadrate fringed lobes ; glands in the male 

 unequal (always ■?), ^— ^ lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 elliptic-oblong or subreniform, cou\ ex ; female or hermaphrodite 

 involucre not seen. 



Coast Regiox : Uiteuhage Div. ; fieMs by the Zuartkops River, 10 ft., Zef/htr, 

 1009 ! 3854 ! Eclion d- Zeyher, Eui'lioib. 25 ! 



All the specimens seen are very imperfect and damaged by insects. 



64. E. gentilis (N, E. Br.); dwarf, sueculent, much-branched, 

 leafless and spineless, 3-6 in. high, unisexual ; branches numerous, 

 rather crowdedj erect or ascending, alternate and opposite on the 

 same plant^ li— 3 lin. thick on the dried specimens, probably much 

 stouter when alive, glabrous and j^erhaps glaucous, very brittle 

 when dried ; leaves none or reduced to mere ovate rudiments less 

 than ^ lin, long, opposite or alternate ; bracts under the involucre 

 ^ lin. long, narrowly oblong-obovate or spatliulate, rounded at the 

 apex, slightly toothed, glabrous on the back, puberulous on the 

 upper surface ; involucres clustered at the apex of the branchlets, 

 usually in opposite pairs and shortly subspicate, sessile, 1-1 1 lin. in 

 diam, and f lin. deep, cup-shaped, glabrous outside, with 5 glands 

 and 5 subquadrate ciliate lobes ; glands contiguous, spreading, 

 -|-§ lin, in their greater diam., transversely elliptic-oblong, entii^e ; 

 female plant not seen. 



Cbxtral Regxox: Calvinia Div,; Eitterfonteiii, Zei/herj 1531! Grainvater, 

 1700 ft,, Pearson, 3271 ! 



AVfisTERN Regiox ; Van Rhynsdorp Div. ; hills near Zout River, 500 ft., 

 Schlechter, 8136 1 



This species is very brittle when dried and in that character is very uuirh like 

 » E, gpiatta, E. Meyer, and E. kai*^*o€n»iSt N. E, Er., which it also resembles in 



appearance. But is readily distinguished from £. sptcata by its glabruus stems, 

 and from E, karroensh by the very different and often alternate rudimentary 

 leaves and absence of conspicuous stipulary glantls. 



65. E. Stapelioides (Boiss. Cent. Euphurb. 26, aiul in DC. Prodr, 

 XV. ii. 91); very dwarf, leafless and spineless, succulent, 3-1 in. 

 high ; main stems branching close to the ground; branches opposite, 

 ascending or suberect, terete, Jointed, with internodes |-| in. lung, 

 iu the dried specimen 2 lin. thick and very brittle, breaking up 

 into joints at the nodes; leaves opposite, rudimentarj% sessile, 



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lin. long, broadly deltoid, acute, blackish; flowers not seen, 

 hut Boissier states that they aro produced near the apex and 

 describes them as follows : — bracts 2 under each involucre and 

 about equalling it, ovate, mucronulate; involucre sessile, 1^ lin. 

 long and in diam., hemispherical, with transversely oblong entire 

 glands and short subentire hairy loheii. 



Westeiix Region : Little Xamaqnaland ; near the mouth of the Orange lUver, 



^i-e:;*^, 8199! 



No specimen of this species exists in E. Meyer's Herbarium at Liibeck, and the 

 type in Herb. Euuge, now in the Paris Herbarium, is reduced to two very small 



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