31 G EUPHOEBIACE^ (Brown). [Eiipliorbia , 



orbicular, concave, submembranouSj obtuse or acute, glabrous, 

 ciliate ; involucre 3-4 lin, in diam., broadly and rather shallowly 

 cup-shaped, glabrous outside, with rather woolly stamens inside, 

 with 5 glands and 5 transverse subrectangular toothed or ciliate 

 lobes ; glands separate or contiguous, deflexed-spreading, convex, 

 often with a longitudinal groove from the upper margin, f— 1 J li^- 

 in their greater diam., suborbicular or transversely elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, with 5-10 minute but distinct often recurved teeth 

 on their outer margin and the inner margin entire or slightly 

 notched, dull yellow; capsule sessile, 3-3ilin. in diam. and rather 

 shorter than broad, obtusely 3-lobed, glabrous ; styles united into 

 a column, |-1 lin. long, \vith broad cuneate spreading free or 

 connate arms |-f lin. long, |— | lin. broad, entire, channelled down 

 the middle; seeds 1| lin. long, elliptic-ovoid, acute at one end, 

 truncate at the other, with a slight keel on each side and one down 

 the back, slightly subreticulate-rugulose on the dorsal and nearly 

 smooth on the ventral side. 



Eastern Eegion : Natal ; Clairmont Flat and Durban Flat, 10-50 ft., Woody 

 4u90! 11803 ! Umgeni, Wood, 12612 1 



100. E. discreta (N. E. Br.) ; very dwarf, succulent, spineless ; 

 body of the plant globose^ in the dried specimens seen about 1 in. 

 in diam., but probably attaining to a larger size, laxly covered to 

 the centre with numerous ascending and spreading branches and 

 between their bases marked out into large hexagonal areas or 

 flattish tubercles, glabrous; branches 1-2| in. long and 1^-5 lin. 

 thick when dried, cylindric, covered with rhomboid tubercles IJ-^ 

 lin. long, 1^-2 lin. broad and 1-| lin. prominent, glabrous; leavea 

 rudimentary, but present along the whole length of the branches, 

 §-1^ lin. long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, spreading, 



glabrous ; ped 



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broad ; involucre about 31 lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped, glabrous. 



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reflexed, 1^-1 1 lin. in their greater diam,, transversely elliptic- 

 oblong, with 7-8 very small teeth or crenulations on the outer 

 margins ; ovary sessile, very thinly pubescent with a few spreading 

 and apparently deciduous hairs ; styles free to the base, J hn. long, 

 stout, ascending-spreading, with dilated slightly notched tips; 

 capsule and seeds not seen. 



Eastern Region : Pondoland ; on the banks of the Umzlmkulu River near the 

 sea shore, Bachmann, 757 1 



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This has some affinity to £. Woodii, N. E. Er., but the hody of the plant i» 

 much smaller, the leaves and styles are much shorter, and the glanda of the 

 involucre appear to be more deflesed. 



101. E. Huttonse (K E. Br.) ; succulent, spineless, leafless, pro- 

 bably similar in habit to E, Capnt-Medusse or E, esculenta^ but only 



