UiqjJior'lia.] EurHOHBiAcE^ (Brown). 299 



i toothed and ciliate inflexed purplish lobes ; glands subcontiguons^ 



about 2^ lin, in diani. across the tips, very concave at the basal 

 part, divided into 3-4 spreading iingerdike corrugated wliite 

 processes 1-1^ lin. long; ovary pedicellate, scarcely exserted, with 

 styles I in. long, unitecl for two-thirds of their length, with entire 

 spreading tips. DC, PI Grass, /, 144 ; Po!r. Enajcl. Snjypl. ii. 607. 

 K anacuHtha, Ait, Ilort. Ketv. ed. 1, ii. 136 : WUliL Sp. PI. ii. 888; 

 Lodd, BoL Cab, L 220; Bot, Mag, t 2520; Sj^reng. Sy^t, Veg. iii. 

 787 ; Bolss, in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 86 ; Berger, SuJck. Eupliorh. 107. 

 Dactylantlies anacaniha^ Haw. Sf/i), PL Succ, 132. Medusea Iridtn- 

 tata, KJotzsch & Garde in Ahlandl. AJuul Berlin, 1860, 61.— Euj>/ior- 

 hiim aiiacanfhura squamosum, dc, Isnavd in Act Paris, 1720, 387, 

 no. 12, and 392, t. 11. EnjjJiorhium crectum aphjlhm, cfr., Burm, 

 Bar, Afr, PI. 16, i, 7jjig, 2. Euphorhium africannm cauJe sqtiamosOy 

 dc, Bradl Hist Succ. PL Dee. 5, 12, L 45. 



South Afkica ; without locality, Herh. Lamarck ! 



DeBcribed from Lamarck's type and the figures above quoted. 



78, E. ornithopus (Jacq. Fragui. 76, t. 120, fig. 2); plant (ex- 

 cluding the peduncles) 2-3 in. high, succulent, spineless, irregularly 

 hranching close to the ground, dimorphic ; branches procumbent or 

 straggUng, often one over another, jointed, Avith 3-5 laxly spiral 

 series of acute conical tubercles, mostly 1-2 lin. prominent, glabrous, 

 dull green or purplish ; stem-joints in one form (which although 



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bearing bisexual involucres, only some of them appear to prove 

 fertile) mostly cylindric and 1-4 in. long, 3-5 lin. thick excluding 

 the tubercles, or some of them ovoid or subglobose and Jess than 

 1 hn. long ; in another form (in ^^-llich nearly all the involucres 



appear fertile) they are subglobose, oblong or shortly cylindric, 



2^1 4 in. Ions : leaves rudimentarv, deciduous, 1-2 i lin. long, i-# 

 Im. broad, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; peduncles of the long-jointed 

 form solitary, terminal, U-S in. long, |~1 lin. thick, bearing 3-4 

 small alternate bracts below the middle, a pair or whorl of 3 larger 

 elliptic bracts 2-2^ lin. long and Ih hn. broad at its apex and 

 1 involucre, or forking into a 2-3-rayed cyme or umbel with rays 

 a-li iii. long, each with 1 involucre, glabrous ; peduncles of the 

 short-jointed "form 1-3 at the apex of the branches ?>-lJ in. long, 

 1-2 hn. thick, simple or forking into 2-3 rays, otherwise as in the 

 long-joiuted form ; involucre (including the glands) 5-6 hn. in 

 diam., obconic-cup-shaped. glabrous, green, with 4 glands and 5 

 inflexed-connivent subipiaclrate ciliate lobes ; glands \ in. long and 

 l>i"oad, ascending-spreading, deeply divided mto 3-4 subulate tinger- 

 hke lobes witli wdiite-margined pits along the inner side, and an 

 oblong white lobe inllexed over the cavity in the basal part of the 

 gland ; ovary exserted and curved to one side ; styles 2-3 hn. long, 

 united to about the middle, ascending-spreading above, with dilated 

 and somewhat 2-lobed tips; caj^sule erect, ^ in, in diam., with 

 3 slight rounded lobes glabrous. WilkL Emim. PL Hurt BeroL 



