298 euphoebiacej: (Bro^vn). [IJupliorlm. 



1-2 ft. liigh ; branches of the main shoots alternate, 1-3 lin. thick 

 (dried) J cylindric, with small conical tubercles or processes (persistent 



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bases of the petioles, not spines as originally described) J-3 lin. Ion 

 scattered aloni:^ them, glabrous, smooth, ascending or ascending- 



spreading, all attaining to about the same height in a corymbose 

 manner ; ultimate branchlets in the male plant bearing 1 or more 

 2-3-rayed umbels, with or without 1 or more single rays below the 

 umbel, in the female plant terminating in a single sessile in^■olucre ; 

 leaves only present on the young branches, alternate, petiolate, 

 somewhat Heshy, glabrous; petiole 1-5 lin. long, rather slender, its 

 basal part persisting after the fall of the remainder ; blade 2-^—7 

 Jin. long, |— 2 lin, broad, varying from linear lanceolate to elliptic, 

 acute or obtuse and sometimes I'ecurved at the apex, more or less 

 tapering at the base, longitudinally folded; rays of the umbel ^-1^ 

 (usually i-1) in. long, glabrous, bearing a pair of bracts and 1 

 involucre; bracts 1-4 lin. long and as much in breadth, obovate- 

 oblong to orbicular, rounded and apiculate or rarely denticulate at 

 the apex, glabrous, those nnder the involucre usually larger than 

 those at the base of the umbel ; involucre unisexual, l|^-2 lin, long- 

 and 1 J-IJ lin. in diam. in the male, rather shorter in the female, 

 campanulate or slightly contracted at the mouth, glabrous outside, 

 puberulous within, with 5 glands and 5 ovate or oblong acute or 

 bifid or toothed puberulous lobes; glands spreading, not quite 

 contiguous, -J-^ lin. in their greater diam., two-lipped, transversely 

 elliptic or with the inner lip somewhat triangular and subacute, entire, 

 -smooth on the upper surface, in dried specimens the lips are some- 

 times much incurved and form a concave upper surface to the 

 gland ; capsule erect, with its base just exserted from the involucre, 

 2?,-3 lin. in diam., globose, more or less distinctly 9-ribbed, glabrous ;: 

 styles united into a column -t_l lin. long, with rather slender re- 

 curved entire acute arms ^-§- lin. long; seeds 1^ lin. l<mg, ovoid, 

 shortly pointed at one end, smooth. 



Wkstkrx Kkgio>' : Great Xamaciualand ; vaiious localities on the Great Karas- 

 berg Range, 5000-5500 ft., PearsmK 7S10 ! 7S11 I 8118 [ 8228 I 8259 ! river bed 

 12 miles south of ^Varmbad, 2400 ft., Pearson, 42S3 ! 4640 ! Little Naniaqualaud ; 

 commou on the lower mountain slopes at Aggenys, 3200 ft., Pearson, 3540 ! by 

 the Orange Paver near Verleptpranij Drege^ 82 14 \ 



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77. E. tridentata (Lam. Encycl. ii. -±16); pLmt dwarf, succulent,, 

 spineless, branchiuy from the base ; branches ascending or some- 

 what spreading, 1-6 in. long, ^— } in. thick, cylindric or slightly 

 tapering upMards, tessellately tuberculate with hexagonal flattish 

 tubercles }-^- in. in diam., having a slightly prominent whitish 

 leaf-scar, glabrous, dull green ; leaves sessile, soon deciduous, 2-3 lin. 

 long, H-2 lin. broad, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute, dark green, 

 with a reddish minutely toothed margin ; peduncles 3-4 at the 

 ends of the branches, about 2 lin. long, bearing a pair of ovate or 

 elliptic bracts and 1 involucre, glabrous ; involucre about ^-| in. in 

 diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong 



