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29(3 euphohbiace-t: (Brown). [Eitphnrlnff. 



greyish^ white or green when dried; leaves represented by minute 

 rudimentary scales, alternate, only seen at the tips of the branches, 

 soon deciduous; male plant with a subglobose cluster of several- or 

 mariy-flowered subsessile cymes ?j-^ in. in diam., at or near the 

 apex of the branches ; feuiale plant with only 2-3 (or more ?) 

 subsessile involucres at the tips : involucres 2-2J lin. in diam., 

 cup-sliapcd, minutely tawny-tomcntose, with 4-5 glands and 4-5 

 short transverse entire lobes, and with a pair of dull reddish scale- 

 like bracts at their base; glands fj— 1 lin. in their greater diam., 

 half-orbicular, reniform or transversely elHptic, entire; capsule 8-11 

 lin. in diam., globose or orbicular-ovoid, rounded or subacute at 

 the apex, obscurely 3-5-angled, 3-5-celled, exserted and pendulous 

 from the involucre on a stout abruptly recurred pedicel \—\ in. 

 long and covered \\'ith a minute dense tawny tomentura ; styles 3-5, 

 about I lin. long, very stout, recurved, channelled, bitid at the 

 apex ; seeds 3-3^ lin. long and 22-3 lin. thick, usually obtusely 

 3-angled, sometimes scarcely angular, smooth, white, with oi' 

 without a round blackish-brown spot on each side or sometimes 

 brownish, with a bi'own line along the middle angle. ^' Aggenys 

 Enplurrhut,^^ Pearson in Ann. S. Afr. Muf<. \x. 9, 13, 15. 



AVestebn Region : Great NamaiiualaiKl ; Kuibis, Peavsmiy MayJoth, 4(.>S3 ! 

 near Saudvei'liaar, between Gobas and Keetinanshoop, Holoog and Sabiesis, ex 

 PearKottj Great Karasberg Kaiige, J^tarson, 8075 ! 8084 ! 8564 ! Bushmanlaiid ; 

 Abba?is, Pearson ; Wortel, 2700 ft., I^ean^o}/, 3339! Pella^ Pearson, 5037 ! Aggeiiy^, 

 Peavmn, 33381 3538! 



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74. E. peltigera (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 184, 



ex Boiss. in L)C. Prodr. xv. ii. 91); plant about 1-1 1 ft. high^ 

 branching in a bushy manner with a thick underground rootstock, 

 very similar in habit and appearance to E. hamatn. Sweet; branches 

 ■J-^- in. thick, with conical spreading leaf-bearing alternate tubercles 

 li-9 lin. prominent, bounded by sliglit furrows, minutely puberu- 

 lous on the young parts, gieen ; leaves alternate, sessile on the 

 tubercles, :|-| in. long, ^-i in. broad, elliptic or ovate, acute or 

 obtuse, slightly folded lengthwise, minutely puberulous on both 

 sides, deciduous; bracts 3 in a whorl, forming a cup 5~| in. in 

 diam. surrounding a single involucre at the apex of the branches 

 and branchlets, 4-6 lin. long and 6-10 lin. broad when flattened 

 out, transverse, somewhat rhoniboid-ellii>tic or suborbicular, broadly 

 rounded or sub truncate, apiculate at the apex, minutelv puberulous 

 on both sides, green ; involucre sessile, much shorter than the 

 bracts, unisexual, cup-shaped, minutely puberulous, 2A-3 lin. in 

 diam., with 5 glands and 5 erect oblong frin.i^ed lobes; glands 

 broadly cuneate, U lin. broad, suberect, rather closely contiguous, 

 forming a cup, covered with very short rather crowded simple or 

 divided teeth on its truncate margin, green; female involucres and 

 fruit not seen. 



Western Region : Little XamaLXualand ; near the Orange River, below 1000 ft., 

 Drei/e, 2951 ! Steinkopf, KHuf/, 156 I 



