302 EUPHOKBiACE^ (Biwvn). [Enphorhia, 



long, elliptic-obovatej elliptic-oblong or suborbicular, rounded at 

 the apex, glabrous or pubescent on the underside ; umbel with 2-4 

 simple 1-tlosvered rays -^-1 in. long, glabrous or puberulous ; 

 involucre unisexual, sessile, ^-2^ lin. in diam. and 1^-lf lin. deep 

 when dried, cup-shaped, glabrous or puberulous, with 5 glands and 

 5 subquadrate toothed lobes ; glands about 1 lin, in their greater 

 diam., transversely elliptic -oblong, entire: ovary puberulous, at 

 first more or less included, in fruit exserted on a pedicel about as 

 long as the involucre; styles \-\\ lin. long, united for half their 

 length, with spreading 2dobed tips, puberulous or glabrous ; capsule 

 3— 3i- lin. in diam., depressed globose-trigonous; seeds 1^ lin. long, 

 ovoid, subacute at one end, rugulose all over, faintly greenish-grey 

 when ripe, reddish when immature. Lam. Enc])cl. ii. 428 ; Willd. 

 Sp. PL ii. 905; Thunh, Prodr, 86, and FL Cap, ed. ScliulL 405; 

 Saic. MiscelL Nat 185; Spreng, SysL Veg, iii. 797; BernTi. in 

 Floraj 1^45, 87, and in KransSj Beitr, FL Cap- uiid Natal. 150; 

 J?o/.«.9. in DC Prodr, xv. ii. 93 ; Mat-loth in Wissensch. Ergehn. 

 Deutsch Tiefsee-Exped. ii, iii. 317, /gr. 131, 1. Tithymalns t)d)eYosu9, 

 Haw. Syn. PL Succ, 137 ajid Bev. PL Sacc. 62; KloizscJi d- GarcJce 

 iii AhJiandL Ahad, Berlin, 1860, 68, -^T. iuherosits, acaidos, d'C. 

 Burr/L Bar, Afr. PL 9, t. 4. T. hiimiUs, foliis Lajyatlii, Buxh. Cent, 

 ii. 27, L 23. 



Coast REGIO^' : Van Tlliynsdorp Div. ; Kanagas Berg, Zet/her, 3855 1 Malmes- 

 Liiry Div. ; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 653 ! 1047 ! 2030 ! Tulbagh Div. ; Saron, 

 JSchlechter, 7876! Cape Div.; near Tyger Berg, BtnrheU^ 969! various places 

 around Cape T(>wn, iSpanvurt/i ! Thnnhirg[ BurcJicll, 8416! 8579! Kraiiss, 1726, 

 Fappel Harvey, 27! Dregt, 175 1 BuvLcl Prior [ Wolky-Dod, 2994! Sdikchter, 

 821 ! Marloth, 4882 ! Diiminer, 79 ! Simons Bay, Wr'ujiit, 450 ! Honey Klip, 

 Mund & Maire ! Stellenbo?^ch Div. ; Lowrys Fa^^/Schhchter ! 



82. E. elliptica (Thunb. Proclr. 86, and FL Cap. ed. Schult. 405) : 

 a stemless tuberous-rooted herb, unisexual ; tuber ellipsoid, fusiform 



or somewhat tapering, 4-2 in. thick, dark brown ; leaves all radical, 



deciduous; petiole ^—4 in. long; blade 1-4 in. long^ 1-6 lin. broad, 

 linear to elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or occasionally acute and some- 

 what folded together at the apex, tapering at the base or from 

 below the middle into the petiole, entire, glabrous on both sides, of 

 a very dark and somewhat bluish-green above, paler beneath ; 

 peduncles in the axils of the leaves, 1-5 in. long, minutely 

 puberulous, with an umbel of 3-5 rays ^~1 in. long at their apex 

 and a whorl of 3-5 bracts at the base of the umbel ; rays with 

 1-3 involucres; bracts ses.sile, 2^5 lin. long, 1-3 lin. broad, obovate, 

 ovate or elliptic, acute or obtuse and apiculate, glabrous above, 

 puberulous beneath; involucres 2-3 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, 

 puberulous outside, green, with 5 dark purple-brown or blackisli- 

 brown glands and 5 small oblong fringed lobes ; glands not con- 

 tiguous, spreading, |-2 lin. in their greater diam., transverse, 

 suboblong, subelliptic or very broadly and shortly wedge-shaped, 

 entire, usually nearly straight on the outer margin ; capsule erect, 



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