UupJiorUa.] EUPHOEBIACE.e (Brown). 311 



(or obconic?), flattened at the top, with a crown of radiating 

 branches surrounding a large central area densely covered with 

 conical tubercles, glabrous; branches in about 3 series, radiating, 

 the outer f-l^ in. long and 3-4 lin, thick (dried), the inner 

 gradually shorter, cylindric, very obtuse, covered with small slightly 

 prominent tubercles about 1 J lin. in diam. ; leaves soon deciduous, 

 1-3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading or erect, only 

 present at the tips of growing branches, glabrous ; involucres sessile 

 or on peduncles 1-1 lin. long, surrounded by 3-4 subquadrate 

 toothed membranous scale-like bracts, produced at the circum- 

 ference of the central area and on the very young branches, about 

 3 lin, in diam., cup-sTiaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 sub- 

 quadrate many-toothed lobes; glands 1-1^ lin. in their greater 

 diam., transversely oblong or elliptic-oblong, sometimes nearly or 

 quite entire, at others with few or several short teeth along the 

 outer ^margin, probably concave, as in dried specimens the outer 

 and inner margins are often infolded, apparently greenish or 

 greenish-yellow ; ovary sessile, glabrous ; styles united into a 

 column |— I lin. long, with spreading broadly cuneate arms ^- ^ 



Hn. long, slightly notched at the apex; capsule and seeds not 

 seen. 



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Easteux Region : Tembuland ; near Gat Berg, 3000-3500 ft., Baur, 2511 



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91 E. pugniformis (Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 92); dwarf, 



succulent, spineless; main body of the plant subglobose, partly 

 buried in the ground, truncate at the top, with a large slightly 

 depressed branchless central area covered with tubercles and 

 producing flowers and branches around its circumference ; branches 

 in about 2-3 series, radiately spreading or slightly ascending, ^-1^ 

 in. long, 3-4 lin. thick at the base, cylindric, but slightly tapering 

 towards the tips, covered with numerous rhomboid or subhexagonal 

 tubercles about 1-1 1 lin. in diam., marked with a dusky leaf-scar, 

 glabrous; leaves 2-3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, deciduous; 

 involucres produced around the margin of the central area of the 

 main body of the plant, on peduncles 1-2 lin. long, apparently 

 shallowly basin-shaped, with 5 entire elliptic whitish-green glands ; 

 <^psule sessile, somewhat bluish, glabrous; styles rather long, 

 apparently slender ; seeds small, oblong, glabrous, brown. E. pro- 

 cumbens, Sweet, HorL Suburb. Lond. 107, and EorL Brit, ed, i. 356, 

 not of Miller, nor of K E. Br. twr Berger. E. Caput-Medusse, var. 8, 

 Linn, Sp. PI ed. i. 452. — Euphorbium hnmile procumbens, dr. Barm, 

 Sctr.Afr.Pl 20,/. 10, Ji(j. 1. 



South Africa : without locality, Burmann. 



This species is only known from Burmann's figure, no specimens tliat have been 

 seen agree with it in the possession of entire ovate or roundish glands to the 

 invokicre, which are represented in the figure as being as long as or longer than 

 oroad. It clearly belongs to the group where the branches do not cover the top 



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and colour of the glands of the involucre clearly distinguish it from that species. 



