o04 EurnoKBiACE.E (Erown). [Euplwrhia. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliain Div. ; foothills of the Cold Bokkevekl Mountains 

 opposite Warm Baths, StepJaus, 7217 ! lower slopes of Olifants River MountainSj 

 ^tephena, 7225 ! Malmesbnry Div. ; near Hoi>efiekl, Barhmann ! Zwartland, 

 Bachmaniij 104S ! 



Cii>TRAL Region : Calvinia Div. ; Hantaiii, Meycv I Ceres Div. ; Karroo Poort, 

 Ahton in Herb. Mftrloth, 52/9 ! 



Western Region : Van Khynsdorp Div. ; Gift Berg, Phillips, 7392 ! 7634 ! 



This is so closely related to E. dliptka that I feel doubtful if it ought to he 

 maintained as distinct from that species. But as Haworth, who described from 

 hving plants, considered it to be different, and Dr. Marloth, who must be well 

 acquainted witli E. elllptica in the living state, has recently sent it to Kew as a 

 ejupposed new species, I retain it. The chief differences appear to be the wavy or 

 crisped margins of its proportionately shorter and broader leaves, fewer involucres^ 

 to a peduncle and apparently different colour of the glands of the involucre. The 

 seeds seem also to be larger, more oblong and differently sculptured, but I 

 have only seen seeds from one specimen of E, elUptica, It requires further 

 investigation. 



84. E. bupleurifolia (Jac<i. Hort. Schoeubr, L 55, t. lOG, and 



Fragm. 08, t. 101, fig. 2); plant unisexual; stems suLglobose, 

 obovoicl or cyliudric, rising 1-9 in. above the ground, 1^-2| in. 

 thick, tuberculate, glabrous, brown or brownish-green ; tubercles 

 crowded, l-^— 2 lin. prominent, transverse, subrhomboid-trigonous, 

 with a leaf-scar at the apex ; leaves in a tuft at the apex of the 

 stem, li-G in. long, J-j in. broad, spathidate-lanceolate, acute, 

 tapering into a rather long petiole, entirely glabrous or the petiole 

 uiure or less puberuluus, deciduous ; peduncles several to a plant, 

 solitary iu the axils of the leaves, i-2^ in, long, bearing a pair of 

 bracts and 1 involucre at the apex, puberulous or velvety ; bracts 

 4r-5i lin. long, 4^-10 lin. broad, suborbicular to reniform, very 

 obtuse, apiculatej.entirely glabrous or puberulous at the base, formin 

 a cup around the involucre, green; involucre sessile, unisexual, 3-5 

 lin. iu diam., cup-shaped, glabrous or puberulous, with 5 glands and 

 3 rectangular or subquadrate lobes cut to their middle into several 

 segments ; glands 1-2 lin. in their greater diam., transverse, oblong 





or somewhat half circular, 2-lipped from the inner margin being 

 incui'ved and forming a slight pocket like cavity, entire or minutely 

 crenulate; capsule 4^ lin, in diam., obtusely trigonous, glabrous 



erect, exserted on a puberulous pedicel as long as the involucre; 

 styles united in a column l|-2 lin. long, with spreading bifid tips 

 §-1 lin. long; seeds 2 lin. long, ovoid, pointed, smooth, pale 

 greyish-brown. Wllhl Sj). PI ii. 888 ; Ait Hort Keiv. ed, % in, 

 158; Poir. EncycL SuppL ii. 609; Spremj. St/.^ Veg. iii. 787; 

 Bernh, in Flora^ 1845, 87, and in Krauss, Beitr. FL Cap- and Natal, 

 150; E. Meyer in Brege, Zwei Pjl. Doatmente, 184 as to letter *'a" 

 not "^fc"; Botss, in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 92; Hovh. in Bot. Mag- 

 L 3476; Goehel, Pflanzenhiol. SchihJerung. i. t, 1, Jig, 1; Berger, 

 SttJJ:. Euphorl, 125. E. prote! folia, Boisa. in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 92. 

 Tithi/malus Inpleurlfollm, Harv. Sijn, PL Slice. 138; Klotzsch (^ 

 GarcJce in AMandL Alad, Berlin, 1860, 81. 



Coast Kegion : Alljany Div. ; near Grahamstown, Bolton ! itfmes Daly & Sole, 

 308 ! QueenstowTi Div. ; near Queenstown, 3600-3800 ft., Galpln, 1562 \ 



