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OG EUPHORBIACE.E (Brown). [EiiphoTlia. 



series around the top, but none at the central part, glabrous, light 

 green at the top, brown at the sides ; tubercles on the top of the 

 plant laterally compressed, 5-9 lin. long, 3-6 lin, broad and 3-4^ 

 lin. prominent, becoming with age as they pass to the sides of the 

 stem compressed from above and twice as broad as long ; branches 

 arising between the tubercles, erect, curved at the base, finally 

 deciduous, l|-3 in. long, |"f in. thick (including the tubercles), 

 cylindric, leafy at the tips when growing, covered with conical 

 tubercles li-2 lin. prominent and very much smaller than those on 

 the main stem ; leaves terminating the tubercles of the branches 

 (none seen on the main stem), ^\\ in. long, f-l| lin. broad, linear 

 or linear-lanceolate, acute, with a minute dorsal point at the apex, 

 shortly narrowed to the sessile base, entire, longitudinally folded, 

 fleshy, glabrous; peduncles solitary in the axils of the tubercles 

 among the leaves at the apex of the stem, 1-1 i lin. long, becoming 

 2-5 lin. long in fruit, bearing 1 involucre and 4-6 deciduous oblong 



acute scale-like bracts §-lJ lin. long, minutely ciliate on their 

 margins ; involucres \ in. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 

 5 glands and 5 transverse subrectangular toothed or fringed lobes ; 

 glands not contiguous, apparently green, 1 lin. in their greater 

 diam. J transversely elliptic-oblong, with the inner margin turned up 

 (perhaps flat when alive) and with 2-3 subulate teeth ^h lin- long 

 or one of them shorter on the outer margin ; capsule sessile, not 

 seen mature, apparently about 3-3J lin. in diam., obtusely some- 

 what 3-lobed, glabrous ; styles stout, united into a column about 

 1-|- lin. long, with thick spreading channelled stigmas | lin. long. 



Kalahari Kegion : Transvaal ; near Pretoria, Kirl:, 48 ! Warm Bath, in 

 Watevberg district, Burtt-Davy, 5562! Springbok Flats, Burtt-BavT/, 21961 



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87, E. ramiglans (IST. E. Br.) ; plant probably similar in habit 

 to E. GorfjonlSi Berger, but only a few branches seen, evidently 

 taken from a larger body; branches 1-1-^ in. long, |^ in. thick 

 (dried), covered with crowded rhomboid conical tubercles 1^-2 liii- 

 prominent, tipped with a whitish leaf-scar, glabrous ; leaves in a 

 small tuft at the apex of the branches, ^~^ lin. long, linear, 

 obtuse or subacute, channelled down the face, glabrous ; peduncles 

 solitary in the axils of the tubercles at the tips of the branches, 

 l|-2 lin. long, bearing 1 involucre and 2 or 3 small and" very 

 deciduous bracts ; involucre 3^-4 lin. in diam., shallowly cup- 

 shaped, glabrous outside, with 5 glands and 5 erect subquadrate 

 2-toothed lobes ' and filled with w^hite-woolly stamens ; glands 

 spreading, subcontiguous, |-1^ lin. in their greater diam., trans- 

 versely oblong, with 4-6 tiliform processes f-| lin. long on the 

 outer margin, very much-branched at their tips ; ovary sessile, 

 sprinkled with rather long hairs ; styles united to the top into a 

 slender column 1# lin. loner, with snreadino- cuneate and sli^litly 



2-lobed stigmas ^ Hn. long; capsule and seeds not seen. 



WESXER^^ Eegion': Little Kamacjualaad ] withoat precise locality, Bolus, 



