EitphorlicL'] euphoebiace.e (Brown). 307 



88, E. basutica (Marloth in Trans. Roy, Soc. S. Afr. i. 408, 

 t. 27, fig. 6, excl. syn.); dwarf, succulent, spineless ; main body of 

 the plant subglobose or obconic, nearly buried in the ground, and 

 excepting a small central tuberculate area covered over the top with 

 very numerous (50-60) branches arranged in 4-5 series, forming a 

 clump about 4 in. in diara. (not sparin^rly branched as originally 

 described); branches f-l^ in. long, 41-6 lin. thick, simple or 

 occasionally branching, more or less clavate, covered with trans- 

 versely rhomboid or subhexagonal tubercles 1^-2 lin. in diam. and 

 J— f lin. prominent, glabrous, green at the upper part, brown below ; 

 leaves rudimentary, soon deciduous, 1 lin. long, ^ lin. broad, lanceo- 

 late or narrowly elliptic, obtuse, very concave above as if longi- 

 tudinally folded, vei'y convex beneath, thick and fleshy ; involucres 

 solitary in the axils of tubercles near the apex of the branches, 

 subsessile or on peduncles \-\ lin. long, rather shallowly basin- or 

 somewhat funnel-shaped, 3J-4 lin. in diam., glabrous, with 5 glands 

 and 5 transversely rectangular deeply toothed lobes ; glands spread- 

 ^gj 1^—2 lin. in their greater diam., subcontiguous or slightly 

 separated, transversely oblong, with about 6 short entire or denti- 

 culate teeth along the outer margin, and the entire inner margin 

 more or less turned up, forming a slight cavity in front of it, some- 

 what greenish ; ovary sessile, included in the involucre, glabrous ; 

 styles united into a stout column ^—^ lin. long, scarcely exceeding 

 the lobes of the involucre, their very stout tips exserted, recurved- 

 spreading, entire, broadly cuneate-obovate, channelled down the 

 race, |. lin. long and as much in breadth. 



Kalahari Eegion : Basutoland ; Maseru (not Leribe as originally stated), 

 ^rs, A. Dleterlen, 415! 



JJescribed partly from a branch in fluid accompanied by an excellent life-sized 

 pliotograph from the type plant, communicated by Dr. E. P. Phillips, and partly 

 h-^K^*^^^^^ in fluid from the same plant, kindly lent by Dr. Marloth and from 

 • J . ^® ^ade his original description. Dr. Marloth has, however, unfortunately 

 ^*^^P^ified this plant with E, Caput-Medusie of DC\ Plantes Grasses, t. 150, from 

 ^;mch it is entirely different, that plant being E, Bergen, N. E. Br., with 

 ^ inerent leaves and flowers and much longer persistent peduncles. Also at the 

 line when the plant figured by De Candolle was introduced, Basutoland was 

 practically an unknown country, and the plant could not have come from there. 



89. E. Ernesti (N. E. Br.) ; plant not rising more than 1-lA in. 

 above the ground, succulent, spineless, leafless ; main stem obconic 

 or subcylindric, 1-2J in. thick, partly buried in the ground, covered 

 on the top nearly or (juite to the centre with numerous branches in 

 several series, glabrous, dull green or tinted with purple ; branches 

 radiately spreading or the inner ascending, quite unbranched, with 

 *he inner series ^-J in. long, subglobose, the others increasingly 

 longer up to 2J in. long, ^-^- in. thick, eylindric, tessellately tuber- 

 culate, glabrous, green; tubercles U-2 lin. in diam., rhomboid or 

 ji^xagonal, not very prominent, marked with a whitish leaf-scar ; 

 leaves rudimentary, ^-2 ij^. long, sessile, deltoid-ovate, oblong or 

 suborbicular, under cultivation becoming 1-U lin. long and spathu- 



