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. 314 EUPHOEBIACE.E (Brown). [EttphorUa. 



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Described from a living plant aud specimens preserved in fluid. The history of 

 thia plant is somewhat interesting. It was introduced into cultivation by 

 Mr. T. Cooper in 1S62, and from a plant cultivated by himself the figure in 

 Eefvffhnn Botanimm, t. 161, was made, and not (as Mr, Cooper himself informed 

 me) from a plant in the collection of Mr. Wilson Saunders as there stated. Some 

 time after, Mr. Cooper sold this plant to Mr. Justus Corderoy, and 36 years later 

 Mr. Corderoy's plant was figured in the Botanical Magazine at t. 8082, so that 

 both figures were actually made from the same indi\'idual at a long interval. The 

 plant subsequently passed into the possession of Kew . At the time I wrote the 

 account in the Botanical Magazine I was not aware of all this, and took the identi- 

 fication as given in Rcfugium Botanicum to be correct, without investigation, but 

 used for the Botanical Magazine the older name IE. 2'>rocinnhenSj Mill., quoted as a 

 synonjTn by Mr. Baker. As Mr. Cooper did not recollect where he collected the 

 plant, it was supposed that he might have got it somewhere in Cape Colony, where 

 he was about 1860 and, therefore, it might be Miller's plant. But Dr. J. Medley 

 Wood has recently sent to Kew a drawing, photographs and branches in fluid of 

 plants collected near Scottsburg and at Umzumbi, in Natal, which are in every way 

 absolutely identical with the plant introduced by Mr. Cooper, who probably got 

 the plant from near the same locality, as he was in Durban, Xatal, in 1862. 

 In Miller's time, however, Natal was an unexplored land, and the plant he 

 described could not have come from that country, and cannot be the same species, 

 for these plants are mostly very local in their range. The same remark also 

 applies to the plant figured by Burmann upon which the name E. pugniformis 

 was established by Boissier, which also differs from the Natal plant in having 

 whitish-green flowers and very different styles. Dr. Wood states that a living 

 plant found near Scottsburg or the Umkomaas River and taken to Pretoria and 

 there planted on the rockery near the Botanical Laboratory in Aug., 1913, had by 

 April, 1914, completely changed its appearance. When first planted at Pretoria 

 it was quite normal, and a drawing of it was then made, which shows the plant 

 to have had between 30 and 40 branches, varying from 1-3 in. long, arranged in 

 about 3 series. When Dr. Wood visited Pretoria eight months later, the plant 

 then bore 140 branches in many series, of which the inner were 4-6 and the outer 

 9-1 4 J in. long. This luxuriant growth being doubtless due to change of soil, 

 climate and elevation. 



97. E, Flanagan! (K E. Br.); very chvarf, succulent, spineless: 



body of the plant apparently subcylindric or cylindric-obconic and 

 only rising 1 or 2 in. above the ground, 1^-2 in. thick, and with a 

 crown of 3 or 4 series of branches around the flattened tuberculate 

 top; branches erect or ascending, J-ll in. long, when dried 2^3 

 lin. thick, with somewhat tooth-like tubercles, glabrous; leaves 

 3-5 lin. long, ^— J lin. broad, linear, acute, channelled down the 

 face, erect, glabrous ; peduncles very numerous, nearly covering the 

 top of the plant inside the branches, about 2 lin. long, bearing 

 1 involucre and a pair of linear-oblong bracts I4-I J Hn. long, ciliate 

 at the apex; involucre ^ in. in diam., shallowly and broadly cup- 

 shaped, glabrous, with 4-5 glands and 5 subquadrate or transverse 

 denticulate lobes; glands distant, spreading, |-1^ lin. in their 

 greater diam., transversely oblong, subentire or minutely and 

 irregularly toothed on the outer margin, apparently yellow ; ovary 

 sessile, puberulous ; styles 1 lin. long, united into a column for half 

 their length, with broadly cuneate 2-lobed spreading arms, glabrous ; 

 capsule and seeds not seen. 



Coast Region: Komgha Div. ; near Keimoutli, Flanagan, 1800 ! 



This is readily distinguished from E. Woodii, N. E, Br., by its much shorter 

 branches and hairy ovary. 



