Uuj)horhia.] EUPnoEBiACE.E (Browu). 309 



minutely toothed or with subulate processes up to ^ lin. long, on 

 their outer margin ; capsule sessile, about ^ in. in diam., slightly 

 and very obtusely 3-lobed or trigonous, glabrous ; styles free nearly 

 to the base, radiating, J lin. long, very stout, broadly wedge-shaped 

 or %vith suborbicular stigmas, channelled down the face; seeds 

 If lin. in diam., globose-ovoid, abruptly acute, truncate at the 

 base, minutely tuberculate on the dorsal side and with a broad 

 smooth stripe on the ventral side, glabrous, dark-brown. 



Coast Region: Queenstown Div. ; on a dry ridge near the summit of a 



mountain on the east side of Bongolo Nek, 12 miles from Queenstown, 5000 ft., 

 Galpin, 7950 I ' 



Cexi-ral Region : GraaffReinet Div.; on the Sneeuwherg Ranee, 4000-5000 

 ft., Drege, 8200 I 6b; 



The above description is chiefly made from living plants sent to Kew by Jlr. 

 E. E. Galpin of Queenstown, who states that his *'7950 grows oulj' in one 

 spot, so far as I know, on the top of a high mountain." Drege's specimens, on 

 which the species was founded, are merely branches or branchlets, but these in 

 some cases are distinctly branched at the tips as in the Queenstown plant, and in 

 size, shape, tuberculation and flowers seem quite to accord with that plant, 



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91, E. truncata (N, E. Br.) ; plant very dwarf, not rising more 

 than 1^-3 in, above the ground, succulent, leafless and spineless, 

 dicficious, consisting of a thick fleshy obconic body tapering into the 

 root-system and buried nearly to the top in the ground, producing 

 on the top a crowded mass of branches to the very centre, all rising 

 to the same level, forming a flat-topped or slightly convex (with age) 

 mass 3-8 in. (or pei'haps more) in diam, ; branches on the outer 



part 1-2| in. and those at the centre about ^ in. long, ^^- in. 



thick^ simple or the outer branched at their tips, subcylindric or 

 more or less compressed by mutual pressure, tessellately tuberculate, 

 truncate at the apex when alive or when dried often obtusely 

 rounded, glabrous, green or more or less brownish where exposed 

 to the sun at the tips only, brown elsewhere ; tubercles at first 

 about as lonor as broad and 11-1^ lin. in diam. becoming broader 



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than .long, rhomboid and arranged in crowded spirals, not very 



prominent; leaves rudimentary, soon deciduous, l-l^- lin. long, 



t lin. broad, oblong or lanceolate, acute, channelled down the face, 



fleshy, glabrous ; involucres sessile in the axils of the tubercles at 



the apex of the branches, about 1 lin. long and 24 lin. in diam., 



cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rectangular 



toothed lobes ; glands not contiguous, 1 lin. in their greater diam., 



transversely oblong, with a depression across their centre and 3-5 



teeth l-^ lin. long on their outer margin, apparently yellow ; ovary 



subsessile, trigonous, without a calyx, thinly sprinkled with rather 



long hairs ; styles | lin. long, very shortly united at the base, very 



stout, much dilated or suborbicular and channelled at the spreading 

 tips. 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1339! Standerton, 

 Bunt-Davy^ 1953 ! Irene, Miss LecndeHz, 670 1 Johannesburg, 3fiss Leendertz^ 

 1873 ! 



Eastern Region : Xatal, Estcourt, Kolht \ 



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