294 EUFiiOEBTACE.E (Brown). [EuplwrUa, 



one Indian specimen and some from Mauritius of undoubted E. Tii'UcuUi, Linn., 

 all female, and these prove to be in every way identical with the female specimens 

 of the Natal plant ; so that there can no lono^er be any doubt that the plant is a 

 native of the eastern side of Africa, from Oennan Ea^t Africa southwards to 

 Tembuland, and that it w as probably introduced from Portuguese East Africa by 

 the Portuguese into India, where it is used for hedges and, I ani informed, does 

 not often flower. The female flowers are sometimes few and lax, as represented by 

 Eheede, and sometimes numerous, forming a dense head, as in the male plant. In 

 Natal the plant is being extensively worked for rubber. 



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71. E. dregeana (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pti. DocumentCj 184, 

 ex Boiss. in 1>0. Prodr. xv. ii. 95) ; a succulent leafless spineless 

 bush, 3-6 ft. high and as much or moi'e in diam., very much- 

 branched at the base; main stems 2-3 in. (^Prarsoji), f^^^i ^^• 

 (nLu'/of//) thick at the base, erect, branching ; flowering branches 

 alternate, cylindiic, -^-l in. thick, with prominent leaf-scars, very 

 minutely puberuluus on the young parts, becoming glabrous, or 

 sometimes apparently' quite glabrous, whitish-green, sometimes 

 covered with a dry whitish exudation when dried ; leaves alternate, 

 rather rudimentary, only present on very young branchlets, soon 

 deciduous, sessile, or subsessile, 1^-4 lin, long, lf-2| lin. broad, 

 ovate or ovate-deltoid, acute or obtuse, channelled down the face, 

 recurved, somewhat fleshy, minutely puberulous; umbels or cymes 

 terminal, solitary or 2 to several more or less clustered at the ends 

 of short alternate erect branchlets, H-3 in, in diam., 3-rayed ; rays 

 ^-3 in. long, usually 1-3-times forked, but occasionally simple, 

 minutely puberulous ; bracts sessile, 2-3^ lin. long, 3^-6 lin, broad, 

 nearly half-circular or rounded-subrhomboid when flattened out, 

 obtuse or apiculate, concave, minutely puberulous on both sides ; 

 involucre sessile, 3-4 lin. in diam. ancl about 1| lin. deep, sub- 

 globose-cup-shaped, puberuluus outside, glabrous within, with 5 

 glands overtopped by 5 erect subquadrate slightly fringed or veiy 

 shortly and densely ciliate lobes; glands ll-lh hn. long and l|-lf 

 lin. broad when flattened out, somewhat ovate-triangular or deltoid, 

 with the part adnate to the involucre acute or subacute and the 

 outer part subtruncate or crenulate or slightly lobed and wavy, 

 incurved in dried specimens, but probably more or less deflexed or 

 spreading and concave when alive, puberulous on the back, glabrous 

 on the inner or uj.per surface; capsule sessile, 3 lin. long, 4-4J lin. 

 in diam., somewhat 6-angled, with 3 of the andes suba'cute, 



minutely puberulous; styles 1-1^ lin. long, united for J-f of their 

 length, with erect or reeurved-spreading bifid (or entire ?) tips ; 

 seeds 2 lin. long, oblong, somewhat 4-angled, slightly pointed at one 

 end, smooth, pale brown hi the examples seen, but perhaps unripe. 

 Bcrgcr, Sulk. Eiiplwrh. 26; MadotJi in Tran^. Ttoij. Soc, S, Afr. iii. 

 124. E. eliistica, Marloth in Tnias. Eoy. Soc, S. Afr. ii, 37 {not of 

 Jumelle nor of Aliiramo cf Base). 



Cexthal REGIO^- ; Calvinia DIv. ; Roggevelcl, Marloth, 3905 ! 



Westkhn Segiox : Great Namaqualand ; Obib. Range, 582 ! Tsaukaib, Bange, 

 418 ! ScMdtzse, 392 ! Little Xamaqualaud ; at Silverfonteiu and frequent between 

 the Koussie fEiiffels) Pdver and the Orange River, Drege, 2942 ! Xixons Cutting, 



