308 EUPHORBIACE.-E (Browii). \_EupJiorl)ia. 



iate, with an ovate blade, acute, fleshy, glabrous, soon withering or 

 deciduous ; involucres sessile or subsessile on the central area of 

 the top of the ruain stem and near the apex of the branches, 2|-3 

 lin. in dianu, cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 sub- 

 quadrate or transversely oblong finely toothed lobes and surrounded 

 at the base by 3-5 obovate or oblong-obovate subtruncate finely 

 toothed bracts; glands rich dazzling golden-yellow (Ga/2^n?),|-l hn. 

 in their greater cliam., transversely oblong, concave, with 2-8 short 

 teeth on the outer margin ; capsule sessile, 3-3^ lin. in diam., very 

 obtusely 3-lobed, glabrous ] styles |-f lin. long, stout, united into 

 a column for half their length, with stout cu^ieate-obovate recurved- 

 spreading tips ; seeds 2 lin. long, ovoid, acute, sometimes very 

 slightly tuberculate, at others thickly and roughly tuberculate, 

 dark olive-brown in the examples seen, but not quite ripe. 



Coast Region: Queenstown Div. ; near Queenstown, on stony plains around 

 the town and on a dry stonv plateau on Hospital Hill, 3500-3600 ft., Galpin, 

 8066 ! 



Partly described from living plants sent to Kew by Mr. E. E. Galpin, who 

 states that the flowers are very beautiful and conspicuous. 



E. Ernesti differs from E. dararioides, Boiss., by its main stem rising distinctly 

 above the ground and not being covered to the centre with branches, also by the 

 branches being unbranched and all developed entirely above the ground, whilst m 

 E. clavarioidcs the branches are partly buried in the ground and with age become 

 repeatedly branched at their tips/ The flowers also of E, Ernesti are rather 

 lai-ger and more brilliantly coloured than those of E. clavarioidcs. 



90. E, clavarioides (Boiss. Cent. Euph. 25, and in DC Prodr. 



91); plant forming a cushion-like mass 2-3 in. high and 

 4-12 in. in diam. of densely crowded branches, succulent , spineless, 

 leafless ; rootstock or main stem thick and fleshy, obconic, buried^ in 

 the ground and covered to the centre of its flattened top with 

 crowded branches, which are -also partly or wholly buried in the 

 ground, as with age (after attaining a length of 1-2 in.) they 

 branch at the tips and the branchlets again divide in a similar 

 manner, becoming in turn buried with the development of the 



plant ; younger branchlets 1-| in. thick, at first subglobose, 



XV. n. 



becoming cylindric or clavate and finally greatly thickened, very 

 obtusely rounded at the apex, tessellately tuberculate, dull green 

 or purplish-tinted ; tubercles 1 J-2 lin. in diam ., about h liii- 

 prominent, rhomboid or hexagonal, veiy obtusely and broadly 

 rounded-conical, with, a whitish and not at all impressed leaf-scar 

 at their apex ; leaves rudimentary, soon deciduous, fleshy, J-1 hn. 

 long, ^—4- lin. broad, sessile, ovate or lanceolate, subacute, channelled 



down the face, glabrous ; involucres sessile at the tips of the 

 branches, surrounded by 3-5 suborbicular or broadly obovate 

 ciliate thin scale-like bracts, male and bisexual occurring on the 

 same plant, cup-shaped, 2^-3 lin. in diam. and about 1 lin. deep, 

 glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate or transversely rect- 

 angular ciliate lobes; glands distant, greenish-yellow {Galpin), |-1 

 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, subentire or 



