318 EUPHORBIACE.-E (Brown). [Eii/phovhia. 



103. E. hypogasa (Marlotli in Trans. Eoy. Soc. S. Afr. ii. 37, 

 t. 1, figs, 2-3); plant succulent, very dwarf, with the large fleshy 

 oblong or turnip-shaped (?) main body and primary branches buried in 

 the ground and only the branchlets appearing above the surface ; 

 Lranchlets |-2 in. long and (including the tubercles) 5-10 lin. thick, 

 clavate, cylindi'ic-clavate or sometimes cylindric nearly to the base, 

 not angular, covered with spreading or recurved cylindric-conical 

 tubercles 1^-2 J lin. long and |-1 lin. thick at their base, glabrous; 

 leaves rudimentary, soon deciduous, 1^-2 lin. long, -J lin. broad^ 

 ascending-recurved, linear, obtuse, longitudinally folded, with the 

 margins touching, glabrous ; peduncles 1-3 to a branch, solitary in 

 the axils of the tubercles at their tips, 4-5 lin. long, bearing 

 1 involucre and 3-4 prominent scars of fallen bracts, glabrous, 

 pcrsit^ting ; involucre about ^ in, in diam., campanulate, glabrous, 

 with the cup part greenish-red or purple and with 5 dark green glands 

 and 5 transversely oblong fringe-toothed whitish lobes (Marloth) ; 

 glands distant, variable, sometimes about 1 lin. long and as much 

 in breadth and somewhat circular in general outline, with a rather 

 deeply concave notch forming 2 short teeth or horns on the outer 

 margin, and the upper surface slightly convex or nearly flat, at 

 others with the entire or glandular part transversely oblong or 

 somewhat crescent-shaped and flattish or slightly concave, with 

 2-3 filiform processes |-1- lin. long on the outer margin ; ovary and 

 capsule quite sessile, the former quite included in the involucre ; 

 capsule 1| lin. in diam., obtusely 3-angled, glabrous; styles united 

 into a column 1-1^- lin, long, with spreading arms |—f lin. long 

 thickened at the apex ; seeds not seen. 



Central Region : Beaufort West Div. ; in clayey soil on the Nieuwveld 

 3Iouutaiiia, near Beaufort West Div., Mcirloth^ 4692 ! Victoria West Div. ; without 

 precise locality, Armstrong/ ! 



Described from Dr. Marloth*s type specimeUj dried and in fluid. The glands of 

 the involucre are very variable on different specimens. 



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104. E. namihensis (Marloth in Trans. Roy. Soc. S, Afr. i. 318 

 and 317, fig. 3); dwarf, succulent, glabrous ; main stem subglobose 

 or ovoidj 3-8 in. high, 3-6 in. in diam., partly buried in the ground, 

 bearing numerous erect or spreading branches about ^-^ in. apart 

 all over the upper half, naked below, whitish (Marloth), whitish- 

 brown when dried ; branches |-2 in. long, 5-6 lin. thick at the 

 base, cylindric or slightly narrowing to the apex, spirally tuberculate ; 

 ultimately deciduous; tubercles rhomboid, 1|— 3 lin, long, 1-1| lin. 

 broad and |-| lin. prominent ; leaves |-1 J in. long, linear, acute, 

 longitudinally folded and in that condition ^| lin. broad, glabrous, 

 somewhat fleshy, only present on the growing branches, soon 

 deciduous ; peduncles solitary in the axils of the tubercles, more or 

 less clustered at the tips of the branches, 1-2| (in fruit 3-5) lin. 

 long and bearing 1 involucre, withering and persisting ; involucre 

 2|-3^ lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5-6 glands and 5-6 

 transversely oblong fringed lobes; glands transverse, 2-lipped, 



