300 EUi'iiORBiACE^: (Brown). [EupJiorlia. ■ 



501 ; Pair, EnryrJ. Siippl ii. 610 ; Sjireng. SysL Veg, iii. 787 ; Boiss, 

 in BC, Frofh, x\\ ii. 87 ; Berger in Monatssclir. fur Kald. xv. 62 

 wltli fig., and Sal'h Euphorh 106, /r/. 28. £. paiala, Sweet, Hort. 

 Saharh. LomL 107, and EorL Brit, cl i. 356, mt of Miller. Badij^ 

 lanthes patida, Raw. Syn. Fl. Sncc. 132, Medn^ca patida, Klotzscli 



d- Garrl'C in Ahliaudh Alnd. JjcrJin^ 1860^ 61. 



South Afkica : withoitt locality, mltivated specimens I 



Described from living plants cultivated at Kew, received fxom Soutli Africa 

 without indication of locality. This species is closely allied to E. ijhfhosa, Sims, 

 but is decidedly different in its elongated eylindric stem-jointB, which even where 

 they are .subglobose are different iu ap]>earauce, and the iuvoki'^res seem. alwaj'S to 

 have only 4 glands^ whilst iu E. glohosa there are constantly 5. There are 

 certainly two forms of this |)lnnt, which, whilst not strictly unisexualj seem to 

 have a tendency to be so. The short-jointed form when out of flower loots 

 specifically distinct froin the long-jointed formj but the flowers are identical, and 

 by its shorter and stouter peduncles and by usually perfecting fruit. I am inclined 

 to believe it to represent the female form of the plant, although the long-jointed 

 form also develops fruit. It has been in cultivation for over 100 years, yet no 

 wild specimens seem to have been collected. 



79. E. globosa (Sims in Bot Mag. t. 2624); jjlant (excl. the 

 flowers) 1-3 in. high, succulent, spineless, consisting of a cluster of 

 "branches superposed or connected together like beads on a string ; 

 brandies or joints usually depressed-globose, thicker than long and 

 i-1 in. in diam., but sometimes ellipsoidj obovoid or clavate and 

 i-1 in. long, ^— 1^ in. thick, marked in a somewhat tessellate 

 manner by impressed lines into irregularly 6-angled flatfish or 

 slightly prominent tubercles, ^vith a slightly raised leatscar at 

 their centre, glabrous, dull green or purplish where exposed to the 

 sun, not glaucous, becoming pale grey or brownish with age; leaves 

 rudimentary, deciduous, |— 1^ lin. long, lanceolate, acute, erect or 

 spreading ; peduncles terminal, some not more than 1-2 lin. long, 

 bearing 1 involucre and usually perfecting fruit, others (and the 

 more numerous) J-3 in, long, bearing about 2 minute leaves near 

 the base and a whorl of 3-4 larger ovate or elliptic-lanceolate acute 

 leaves 2-2| lin, Jong and 1 lin. broad under the solitary involucre 

 at the apex, occasionally they fork 1-3 times into a lax cyme and 

 bear three to several involucres, male or perfecting fruit, glabrous ; 

 involucre (including the glands) }>-§ in, in diam., obconic, glabrous, 

 green, with 5 glands and 5 inflexed-connivent quadrate entire 

 minutely ciliate lobes; glands ascending-spreading, 2-3 lin. long 

 and nearly quite as broad, deeply divided into 3-4 subulate green 

 segments with minute white-margined pits scattered along their 

 upper side and a white and pitted margin to the cavity in the 

 united basal part, which "has a small white lobe folded over it; 

 capsule very obtusely and slightly 3-lobed, exserted and curved to 

 one side, glabrous ; styles U lin. long, united for about half their 

 length, slightly spreading above and slightly thickened at the entire 

 tips. ADa Sept. KoL PL Bar, Gouv. 24, t. 5 ; Boiss. in DG^ 

 Pri,dr. XV. ii, 87; Berger, SuJd\ EnpUrK 104,///. 27; Marloth in 



