Eajjiiorhia.'] EUPHOiiBiACE.E (Brown). 321 



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or minute teeth on the outer margin, bright dark green ; ovary 



sessile, included in the involucre, glabrous ; styles united into a 



stout column 1-1^ lin. long, longitudinally grooved, with stout 



recurved-spreading stigmas | lin. long, exserted. E. Caput -3Iedu8^, 



E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei PJl. Documenfe, 184, name onhj, not 

 of Linn. 



CE^'TKAL Region: Beaufort West Div. ; Willowmore side, Branns, 1712 ! 



A specimen collected by Burke on the south side of the Snowy Mountains, in 

 Richmond Div. and another collected on the Camdeboo Mountains in Albert Div. 

 by Dr^ge (871), may belong here. 



Described from a living plant collected by Dr. Brauns and sent to Kew by 

 Dr. Schonland in September, 1911. The stem and branches are so much like dry 

 ground in colour, that at a short distance they would not be eac^ily detected. In 

 appearance this species is so extremely like E. namihensis, Marloth, that when out 

 of flower it might easily be mistaken for that species. The odour of the milky 

 juice is very disagreeable. 



108. E. crassipes (Marloth in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. i. 318 and 

 317, fig. 4) ; main body of the plant 4-6 in, long and thick, often 

 naif buried in the ground, globose-cylindric, flattened at the apex 

 and bearing numerous fleshy branches lJ-2^- in. long and 5-7 lin. 

 thick, forming a rosette 6-8 in. in diam., the lower branches 

 gradually shrivel and expose the bare stem ; leaves not described ; 

 peduncles lA-5 lin. long, bearing 1 involucre and several bracts, 

 inoderately stout, glabrous, persistent and hardening but not spine- 

 tipped (Marloth); bracts about 1 lin. long, spathulate-lanceolate, 

 incurved and somewhat concave, ciliate, deciduous ; involucre 2-2^ 

 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely 

 subrectangular fringed lobes ; glands not contiguous, horizontally 

 spreading, transversely elliptic, concave, with 3-5 subulate processes 

 ^ lin, long or less on their outer margin ; ovary sessile, included in 

 the involucre, glahrous ; styles exserted, 1 lin. long, united for half 

 their length, with spreading channelled but not bifid tips. 



Central Regio:^ : Beaufort "West Div. ; in stony ground of the Karroo, near 

 Beaufort West, Marloth, 4397, partly ! 



The above description as to the i^Iaiit itr^elf is from Dr. Marloth's origiual 

 ^escription, but aU relating to the peduncles and flowers is from fresh material 

 pom the type preserved in alcohol. But it in evident from the material 

 in Dr. Marloth^s Herbarium, that some error has been made with regard to 

 the localities given for this plant at the original place of publication. 

 The type sheet in Dr. Marloth's Herbarium contains, firstly, a very much 

 enlarged drawing without name or label of a flowering branchlet of E, crassipet, 

 ^f which a reduced facsimile is reproduced in the figure quoted above. This 

 ^wing quite agrees with the flowers in fluid kindly lent by Dr. Marloth, 

 ^econdly, a dried specimen and a photograph of it, labelled '' Euphorhla crassipes, 

 Marloth. Prince Albert. No. 4397." This specimen differs totally from the 

 description in the main body being cylindric and not fiat-topped, but covered to 

 the centre with erect or ascending branches, those at the sides being spreading. 

 J- he peduncles are nearly twice as long and far more slender than those of E, 

 f^assipes, but probably the measurements " 15-20 mm." given for the peduncles of 

 -c*. missipes by Dr. T^larioth are taken from this specimen, which I describe below 

 a^ E. alhertenm, N. E. Br., and have assumed that the Beaufort West locality is 



-— "^^ vv/t-oce, XI. Ji*. i>r., ttiiu ua\c as&uixicu. ui 



*ae only one that rightly belongs to E. a^assipes. 



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