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.Tacq. ^ Can Miller's plant be a small weak form of E. mauvitanlca^ Linn., with 

 Sijreading branches? He decioribes the branches as not ''scaly/* by which F 

 suppose he means they are not tuberculatC; since those of E. Capvt-Medmx.lAnn. 

 are described as scaly. 



70. E. Tirucalli (Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 452) ; a spineless, succulent 



tree, 15-20 ft. high, dioecious; "branches and branchlets alternate 



or opposite or in clusters of 2-7 at the ends of the branches they 



arise from and distinctly jointed to theiu, diverging or subparallel in 



j brush-like masses, more or less deciduous'; ultimate branchlets 2^-3i 



(when dried 1^-2) lin. thick, eylindric, very obtuse or subtruncately 

 rounded at the apex, glabrous, rather light green, with very fine whitish 

 striations, and uiarked with A'ery small leaf -scars ; leaves alternate, 

 -^-h in. long, -J—l lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 glabrous; involucres in sessile clustei'sat the apex of the branchlets, 

 cup-shaped, IJ- lin. in diam., minutely puberulous or thinly sub- 

 tomentose on the upper part outside, with 5 glands and 5 trans- 

 versely subreetangular or subquadrate toothed lobes ; glands sub- 

 contiguous or separate, §-|- lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 oblong or elliptic-oblong, entire, flat, with a slightly raised margin 

 when fresh ; ovary subglobose, minutely tomentose, without a calyx 

 ?it its base, finally exserted on a stout pedicel ; styles united into a 

 very stout column \ lin. long, A\'ith very spreading arms l^ lin. long, 

 divided to half-way down or nearly to the base into 2 \videly spread- 

 ing-recurved tips; capsule ^ in. in diam., slightly and very obtusely 

 3-lobed as seen, from above, minutely puberulous, exserted on a 

 pedicel }^ in. long and curved to one side; seeds 2 lin. long, ellipsoid, 

 smooth, glabrous, dark brow^n, with whitish margins around the 

 small white caruncle and aloni:i: the brown suture extending from it. 

 Jioiss, in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 96 ; T, Thorns, in SpeJce, Journ, Nih', 

 Ap2)rml QiQ, and Trans, Linn. Soc. xxix. 144; Volkens in NofhhJ. 

 Konigl BoL Gart. Berlin, ii.. 263 ; Tallnd, Forest FL Bombay, ii. 

 4:34 and 435, fir;, 487; Berr/er, Sukh Euplwrh. 20, jiff, 3, ii. ; Sim. 

 For, FL Port, E. Afr, 104, t. 84, /</• 2. E, media, N. E. Br, in 

 J^yer, FL Afr. vi. i.'55G; Zimmermann in Ber Pflanzer, 1912. 636, 

 . ^- 8~~d,~~0ssifra(jra lacteay Bumph Herh, Amloin, vii. 62, /. 29. 

 Tint-calli, BJieede, Eort, 31alahar. Ii. 85, t, 44. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Moorddrift, Miss LeendeHz, 224o ! near 

 Potgeiters Rust, JSlaihje, 844^ ! Marloth, 5146 I AVaterberg district, B in-tt- Da v y , 

 1700 ! near Mafutane, Boht-s 12279 ! Komati Pooii, FiO'jers ! 



Eastkrn Region: Transkei ; in cultivation at Columba Misr^iou, Miss Peyler, 

 1000! Tem^uland; Bashee River, Botckcr I near Mganduli, ex 3Ii^s Pt[)hr, 

 ^atal; Groenberg, H'oot/, 1339 ! 



^lu the Flora of Tropical Africa I considered this plant to be distinct from 

 E. Tirucalli, Linn. At that time I had not seen any flowering specimen of the 

 undoubted typical E. Tiracallt, either from India or other country where it is 

 known to be cultivated, and could not reconcile the dense crowded heads of 

 involucres of the male plant (the female not having been seen) from Tropical 

 Africa, with the very different appearance of the female involucres figured in 

 Kheede's Hort. Malabar., upon which Linnaeus founded the species. Since then, 

 however, female specimens of the Is'atal plant were received, the male being 

 Identical with the male of the Tropical African plant. Subsequently I have seen 



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