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EuphorUa,'] . eupiioebiace.e (Bro^yn). 295 



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near Klipfonteiu, 3000 ft., Bohis, 0444 ! rockj- slopes at Eenriet, Pearsou, 4066 ! 

 Ratel Poort Mountain, Pearson, 2971 ! Namies. Alston ! Bushniaiilana, Pagers ! 

 near AnenouSj covering large areas of country, Marloth, 4684 ! between Anenous 

 and Cliubiesis, Pearson, 5974 ! 



I have dis.sected and compared the type specimen of E. elaatica with that of 



L. dregeana and can fiad no difference between them. This i=ipecies is used for 

 rubber. 



72. E^ gummifera (Boiss. Cent. Euphorb, 26, and in DC. Prodr. 



xy. li. 97) ^ a leafless spineless bush, forming large clumps 3-4 ft. 

 high, succulent at the younger parts, ^\-ood7 below, dioecious, with 

 a \ ery disagreeable odour ; flowering branches erect or ascending, 

 *--^-o lin. thick, slightly angular from raised lines decurrent fr<_>m 

 the slightly prominent leaf-scars, glabrous, or, in the female plant, 

 niinutuly tomentose for about |- in. immediately under the inflores- 

 cence at the apex, more or less covered with a dry gummy or 

 resmous exudation (not velvety -pruinose as described by Boissier); 

 leaves minute, rudimentary, scale-like, fleshy, recurved, dark red, 

 only seen on the tips of growing branches, soon deciduous ; male 

 plant with 1 or more dense sessile clusters of involucres at the tips 

 of the branches, about ^-J in. in diam. ; female plant with a few 

 sessile involucres at the tips ; involucres sessile, about -^ in. in diam., 

 less when dried, cup-shaped, apparently reddish or purplish, minutely 

 white-tonientose, with 4-5 glands and 5 subquadrate or rounded 

 entire lobes; glands about | lin. In their greater diam., transverse, 

 reniform or hulf-orbicular, entire, apparently dark red or purjile ; 

 capsule about ^ in. in diam., obtusely 3-angled, very minutely and 

 not densely puberulous, probably somewhat fleshy when alive, ex- 

 serted on a pedicel not longer than the involucre, erect ; styles | lin. 

 long, stout, channelled, bifid at the apex, spreading ; seeds 3 lin. 

 long^ and 3^ lin. broad, somewhat sub(|uadrate, compressed dorsally, 

 With a ridge down the back, smooth, at first brown, becoming white 

 ^vhen perfectly ripe. Boiss. in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 97; Marloth in 

 Trans, Boy, Sac. S. Afr. i. 316. E. scs^iUflora, E. Meyer in Drege, 

 Zmei Pjl, Docnmente, 184, name onhj, not of Boxh. 



Western Regiox: Great Xamaqualand ; Rotkuppe, near Bethany, Panje, 55! 

 •;^ predominant plant on sandy plains at Goioip (Garub), Pearson, 4174! 4175! 

 ^amib Desert, near Tschaukaib, Marloth, 4636! Little Namaqualand ; near the 

 *Jrange River, Brege, 21>44 ! 



73^ E. g-regaria (Marloth In Trans. Roy, Soc. S. Afr. ii. 36, t. 1, 

 %• 7); a leafless spineless hush, forming dense clumps 3-6 ft. (or 

 sometimes more) high and 3-20 ft. in diam., succulent at the 



younger parts, dioecious; main stems U-2 in. thick (Marloth), 



Alternately branching; dried flowering branches 2-4 lin. thick, 

 erect or ascending, terete, not angular, with inconspicuous and not 

 Pi'ominent leaf-scars, glabrous, or, in the female plant, minutely 

 tomentose under the inflorescence for ^-^ in, at the apex only, 

 everywhere covered with a dry gummy (or waxy?) exudation, 



