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I I.aphorUa^ Euriior.BiACE/?-: (Brown). 297 



Partly described from fresh material in fluid {KJnuj, Ij^), contributed by 

 Dr. S. Scliualand. This species very closely resembles E. hamata. Sweet, but is 

 easily aistmguished by its stems, bracts and involucres being minutely puberulous 

 and by the verj- different glands of the involucre. Drege's s;]x^cimens are mere 

 scraps, but must have been taken from a very luxuriant plant, as the tubercles 

 ai'e 5 in. long, on Kling s specimen they are much shorter. 



II ^ 75, E.hamata(Sweet,Hort.Suburb.Loiid.l07,an(lIIurt.Brit.ed. 



1. 3o6) ; succulent, bushily branched, sometimes forming large dense 

 niasses up to 1 ft. bigh, unisexual, Avith an elongated or oblong tuber- 

 like rootstock 1-2 in. (or more) in diam. ; branches 3-6 (or wlien dried 

 1^-4) lin. thickj fleshy, somewhat 3-angIed, ^ritli sonieu-liat distant 

 conical tubercles scattered along them, glabrous, green, becoming 

 grey on the old parts; tubercles 1-8 lin. prominent, horizontally 

 spreading or slightly recurved, bounded by a slight furrow and 

 ■obtusely 3-ribbed down the decurrent part, bearing leaves "svhen 

 .young and after their fall at first somewhat acute, but with age the 

 apex of the tubercle withers and becomes obtuselv rounded : leases 



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•^-% in. long, j-i in. broad, sessile on the tubercles, ovate, elliptic 

 or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, rounded or broadly cuneate at the 

 base, flat or slightly folded lengthwise, very slightly fleshy, glabrous 

 on both sides, green, soon deciduous; bracts usually 3 in a whorl, 

 forming a cup around a solitary involucre at the apex of the 

 branches and branchlets, 3-5 lin. long, 2-5 lin. broad, usually sub- 

 orbicular and obtuse and apiculate at the apex, or occasionally broadly 

 ovate and acute, glabrous, apparently yellow or yellowish ; in-volucre 

 sessile, anuch shorter than the bracts, 2^-3.1 lin. in diam., unisexual, 

 cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 fringed lubes ; glands 

 distant, probably spreading or deflexed, usually smaller than the 

 lobes, |-1 lin. long and broad, suborbicular, with the outer margin 

 minutely crenulate (not toothed) or entire, and the inner slightly 

 turned up, apparently j'ellow in some specimens and red in others, 

 possibly changing with age ; capsule sessile, \ in, in diam., sub- 

 g'lobose, glabrous; styles united into a column 1J>-1| H". long, 

 with short spreading bifid tips; seeds \l lin. long, ovoid, obtuse 

 -and witb 3 slight radiating keels at the apex, minutely rugulo:,e, 

 grey. Boiss. in DC. Prorfr. xv. ii. 01 ; Benjer, SuJd\ EujjhorL 124. 

 -£'• antiquonun, E. Meyer in Drege, Zicei Pfl. Dociuaenfe^ 184, name 

 ^'iihf, not of Linn, K cerriconu's, Boiss. Cent. Evphorh. 27, and in 

 DO, Prodr, XV. ii. 90; Benjer, SnH\ Evjyhorb. 123 and 124,/^. 33. 

 DadijJanthes hamafa, Hmc. Spi. PI Sncc. 133. Mednsea Jianiata, 

 Klotzscli & Garclce in Ahhandl Ahul Berlin, 1860, Q\,-~EiqjhorUum 

 caule rotundo^foJuis hamatis, dc, Btmn. Bar. Afr. PL 14. /. 6,/^^. 3- 



South Africa: without locahty, Thvnherg \ Zeyher, I'yli^l 

 Coast Region: Van llhynsdorp Div. ; Heerenlogemeut, Zetjher, 15301 Clan- 

 "wilHain Div. ; near Clanwilham, leipoldt in TIerh, MacOvon, 3183 ! Mi'vloth, 

 ooG^ * ^<^^^^c^iter, 8429 ! Pitiuetberg Div. ; Piquet Berg, Bre^/e, 2950 ! Bolu^', 



.. 76. E. gariepina (Boiss. Cent. Euphorb. 28, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 ^1' 91); a compact succulent bush, often about G-9 in., but sometimes 



