320 EUPiiORBiACE^ (Brown), [^tqyhorhia. 



than long, ultimately forming narrow spaces between the trans- 

 verse scars of the fallen branches ; tubercles on the branches 



H lin. broad, ^ lin. prominent, elongated rhom- 

 boid, slightly produced and tipped with a white leaf-scar at the 

 upper part ; leaves 1— li lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, sub- 

 obtuse, fleshy, deeply channelled down the face, glabrous, dull 

 green ; peduncles arising in the axils of the tubercles at the tips 

 of the branches, 3-4 lin. long, bearing 4-5 linear or linear-spathu- 

 late obtuse ciliate deciduous bracts round the base of the solitary 

 involucre, dull green ; involucre 2 lin. in diam., campanulate, 



glabrous outside, dull green, dusted with reddish, with 5 glands 

 and 5 subquadrate toothed ciliate lobes ; glands not contiguous, 

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

 above when fresh, becoming concave when dried, with 2-4 short 

 teeth or processes on their outer margin, dull olive-green ; ovary 

 sessile, very thinly sprinkled with hairs ; styles united to the top 

 into a column l^— 1^ lin. long, with knob-like radiating stigmas about 

 ^ lin. long. 



CE>'TRiL Region : Britstown Div. ; near De Aar, Schonland ! 



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Described from a living plant sent l^y Dr. S. Scbouland to Kew in 1911, where 

 it flowered in June, 1913. It is e\-idently nearly allied to E, fasca^ Marloth, but 

 the main stem is more cylindric, the glands are not brown, but dull olive-greeUj 

 and the styles are twice as long, and united nearly to their apes into a much more 

 slender column. 



A specimen collected at Vesta, near De Aar QlloppeVj 4409), is probably the 

 same species, but I have not seen flowers of it. 



107, E. decepta (X, E. Br.) ; very d^yarf, succulent, leafless and 

 spineless, but the branches are beset with the rigid remains of the 

 peduncles, not spine-tipped ; body of plant globose, 3-4 in. in diam., 

 partly buried in the ground, marked by depressed lines into irre- 

 gular hexagonal flattened areas about i in. in diain., with a small 

 compressed-conical (as if pinched between the thumb and finger) 

 tubercle at the centre of each ; from between these ai^eas arise all 

 over the top and sides of the body numerous ascending and 

 spreading cylindric branches |-1| in. long and mostly about ^ in. 

 thick and -^-| in. apart, covered with spirally arranged slightly 

 prominent rhomboid tubercles li-2J lin. in diam. ; body and branches 

 glabrous, dull olive-grey-green, with a -somewhat brownish tint ; 



leaves very rudimentary and soon deciduous, ^-f lin. long, ovate or 

 deltoid-ovate, obtuse, fleshy ; peduncles solitary in the axils of the 

 tubercles of the branches, 2-6 lin. long, bearing 1 involucre and 

 about 4 very small scale-like deciduous bracts, glabrous, withering, 

 becoming rigid, but not spine-pointed, persisting ; involucre 2|— 3 

 lin. in diam. and 1| lin. deep, cup-shaped, glabrous and green 

 tinged with purple outside, with a tuft of hairs opposite the glands 

 within, with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong ciliate lobes 

 pubescent on the back; glands distant, f-l^ lin. in their greater 

 diam. J transversely oblong or elliptic-oblong, convex, with 3-6 short 



