.^uphorUa^ EUPiiOEBiACEiE (Brown). 317 



4 branches have been seen, |-2 in. long, 4-5 lin. thick, cylindric, 

 tessellately tuberculate, glabrous, simple or slightly branching near 

 the apex; tubercles '2-2h lin. long, \\-2l lin. broad and scarcely or 

 but slightly prominent, rhomboid or subhexagonal, marked with a 

 ■^vhite leaf-scar ; leaves minute, rudimentary, soon deciduous ; 

 peduncles few on each branch, solitary in the axils of the tubercles 

 at the tips of the branches, about 1| lin. long and 1 lin. thick, 

 bearing about 5 bracts and 1 involucre ; bracts subquadrate or sub- 

 orbicular ,^about I lin. in diam., entire, glabrous, deciduous ; involucre 

 about \ in. in diam., broadly and rather shallowly cup-shaped, 

 glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 rather short transversely oblong 

 toothed lobes ; glands contiguous or nearly so, apparently deflexed, 

 1-1^ lin. in their greater diam., transverse, rounded on the inner 

 margin, truncate and toothed or subentire on the outer margin, but 

 not produced into processes, apparently greenish or yellowish-green : 

 ovary sessile, glabrous ; styles united to the apex into a column 

 nearly 1 lin. long, with spreading cuneate subtruncate stigmas ; 

 capsule and seeds not seen. 



Coast Region- : Albany Div. ; Carlisle Bridge, Mrn. Hutton ! 



102. E. brevirama (N. E. Br.) ; very dwarf, succulent, spineless, 

 but w^ith persistent remains of the peduncles on its branches ; body 

 of the plant in the specimen seen 2 in. in diam., obeonic, flat at 

 the top and there marked out by depressed lines into octagonal 

 "flattened areas Avith a very short point at their centre on the outer 

 part, gradually passing into much smaller hexagonal and very 

 shortly and obliquely conical tubercles at the central part, pro- 

 ducing around the outer part of the top about 3 series of very short 

 tranches, glabrous, fleshy, dull green ; branches arising between 

 the octagonal areas, about 2-4 lin. apart, the outer or longest 

 about ^- in. long, the others shorter, cylindric and 2i-3 lin. thick, 

 but dilated and stouter at the base, obtuse, covered with small 

 convex hexagonal tubercles about 1 lin. in diam., finally withering 

 and deciduous or bending down on the main body; leaves very 

 rudimentary and soon deciduous, i lin. long, ovate, acute ; peduncles 

 2-4 to a branch in a season, arising from the axils of the tubercles 



at the ends of the branches, spreading, 2-5 lin. long, withering and 

 persisting, bearing 3-4 minute ciliate deciduous bracts near or at 

 the middle, distant from the sohtary involucre, glabrous, green : 

 involucre 1^— If lin, in diam. and about as deep, campanulate, 

 glabrous outside, dull reddish, with 5 glands and 5 rounded 

 minutely puberulous lobes; glands distant, about | lin. in diam., 

 erect, circular as seen from above, entire, fleshy, with a rather deep 

 central cavity, green ; ovary sessile, glabrous ; styles united into a 

 column f-1} lin. long, with revolute arms ^1 lin. long, according 



*o maturity. 



Coast Region : Jansenrille Div. ; near Klipplaat, Schunlaud, 1716 I 

 Described from a liviag plant sent to Kew by Dr. S^lionland in Oct., 1912. 



