IIiq?JiorUa.] eupiioebiace^ (Brown). 315 



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98, E. FranksisB (N. E. Br.) ; dwarf, succulent, spineless ; main 

 hody of the plant buried in the ground, cylindric or cylindric- 

 obconic, 1^-1 f in. thick, covered with small broadly conical 

 closely placed tubercles about |-1 lin. prominent on the upper part, 

 passing into the root below ; branches in about 3 series around the 

 top (not at the centre) of the plant, erect or ascending, |-2 in. 

 long, 2^-3 lin. thick when alive, |-1|- lin. thick when dried, 

 cylindric, covered with rhomboid-oblong tubercles about 2 lin. long, 

 1-j-l^- lin. broad and ^ lin. prominent, or under cultivation, some- 

 times without distinct tubercles, glabrous, green, not glaucous ; 

 leaves 1-3 lin. long, linear or the smaller oblong-ovate, acute, more 

 or less channelled down the face, glabrous ; peduncles arising from 

 the central part of the top of the main body of the plant inside the 

 crown of the branches, 4-9 lin. long, erect, bearing 3-4 bracts and 

 a solitary involucre, glabrous, deciduous; bracts H-lf lin. long, 

 1-1 1 lin. broad, oblong or subquadrate, very obtuse, ciliate, concave, 

 submembranous, deciduous ; involucre 3^-4^- lin. in diam., broadly 

 cup-shaped, glabrous outside and within, with 5 glands and 5 broadly 

 rounded ciliate lobes ; glands not contiguous, horizontally spreading, 

 flat, 1^1 1 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elHptic-oblong, 

 or very shortly and often somewhat crenately toothed or subentire 

 <3u the outer margin, dull greenish-yellow ; ovary sessile, with a 

 few thinly scattered straight hairs or almost glabrous ; styles united 

 into a column ^-| lin. long, with stout cuneate entire or crenate 



arms J lin. long and |-| lin. broad ; ripe capsule and seeds not 

 seen. 



Eastern Region': Natal ; Camperdown, 2000 ft., 3Iiss Franks in Eerh. Wood, 



This differs from E. Woodn, N. E. Br., in its longer peduncles, and fiat 

 horizontally spreading involucral glands, which are different in colour, have much 

 shorter teeth on their outer margin, and are not notched on the inner margin nor 

 longitudinally grooved. 



99. E. Woodii (N. E. Br.) ; succulent; spineless ; body of the 

 plant buried in the ground, 3-6 in. long, 1^-3 in. thick, cylindric 

 or ovoid-cylindric, truncate at tlie top, with the central area covered 

 ^ith conical acute tubercles and the margin bearing a crown of 

 3-4 series of branches, glabrous, dull green ; branches at first erect, 

 finally radiately spreading, 1-3| in, long, 3-31 (or when dried 1-2) 

 lin. thick, cylindric or slightly tapering to the apex, scarcely tuber- 

 culate, but marked by depressed lines into rhomboid or elongated 

 areas U-4 lin. long and 1-1| lin. broad, each bearing a leaf or 

 leaf-scar" close to the upper end, glabrous, green or dull purple 

 where exposed to the sun; leaves 1-3 lin. long, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, fleshy, spreading, glabrous, persisting for some 

 time; peduncles usually numerous, solitaiy from the axils of the 

 ^uter tubercles of the central area of the stem or from the youngest 

 tranches, 1-3^ lin. long, bearing about 5 bracts and 1' involucre, 

 glabrous; bracts l-U Hn, long, oblong, ovate, obovate, or sub- 



