Uaphoi'hia,] EUPiiOKBiACE.E (Brown). 323 



Hn. long, 1-2 lin. broad and near their apex ^--| lin. promiucnt, 

 tipped with a white leaf-scar ; leaves very rudimentary, f lin. long, 

 broadly ovate, acute, soon deciduous; peduncles arising in the axils 

 of the tubercles at the tips of the branches, erect or ascending, 

 4-9 lin. long, § lin. thick, bearing 3-5 bracts and 1 involucre, 

 glabrous, withering and persisting ; bracts all alternate, the up|)er- 

 most a little below the base of the involucre, scale-like, thin, suou 

 deciduous, about 1 lin. long, oblong or spathulate-obovate, concave, 

 ciliate, green or reddish-brown; involucres 3| lin. in diam., broadly 

 obconic-cup-shaped, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rectangular 

 fringe-toothed pubescent lobes, otherwise glabrous, green dotted 

 with red; glands distant, spreading, 1^-1 J lin. across their tips, 

 shortly stalked, transA'ersely oblong or very broadly wedge-shaped, 

 flat or slightly convex, fleshy, with 2-4 subulate teeth, ^-l lin. 

 long, along their outer margin, olive-green above, reddish beneath ; 

 stamens woolly below the articulation ; capsule sessile^ erect, 3-3^ 

 lin. in diam., obtusely trigonous, thinly covered with rather long 

 spreading woolly hairs; styles united into a column ^-^ Jin. long, 

 ■^'ith arms I—I lin. long, at first ei'eet, finally spreading, with 

 revolute dilated or obovate entire or slightly notched channelled 

 tips; seeds I^ lin. long, oblong-ovoid, acute at one end, truncate at 

 the other, slightly 4-angled, with the angles forming a slight 

 shoulder below the point, sides very slightly rugose. 



Kalahari Region : Griqualand West ; near Kimberley, Moran I and in Herb. 

 Schdnland, 1718 ! 



De.scribed from a living plant sent to Kew by Dr. Scliouland in October, 1912. 

 The flowers, owing to their white spreading filaments, the white woolly hairs on 

 the involucre and the dull olive-green of the glands, have, as a whole, a peculiar 

 greyish appearance when viewed at a short distance. 



111. E. albertensis (X. E. Br.) ; main body of the plant cylindrie, 

 in the dried specimen 4 in. long and about 1^ in. thick, tieshy, 

 scarcely tuberculate, bearing on the upper part, to the very centre, 

 numerous fleshy branches with persistent remains of the peduncles 

 npon them, glabrous; branches not crowded, but with distinct 

 spaces between them, those at the apex erect or ascending, the 

 others more or less spreading, about | in. long and IJ lin. thick 

 ^iien dried, and according to a photograph 3-4 lin. thick when 

 alive, cylindrie, with smalf slightly prominent rhomboid tubercles ; 

 leaves rudimentary, |-U Hn. long, linear-lanceolate, fleshy, chan- 

 nelled or longitudinally folded, glabrous, soon deciduous ; peduncles 

 arising singly from the axils of the tubercles along the upper part 

 of the branches, i-1 in. long, slender and not more than h lin. 

 thick at the base, straight, bearing at the apex 3-4 closely placed 

 or somewhat whorled bracts and 1 involucre, glabrous; bracts 

 f-1 Hn. long, linear-spathulate, acute, incurved or concave, cilio- 

 late; involucre on a distinct pedicel 1-1 1 lin. long above the bracts 

 and often making an angle with the peduncle, about 2-2^ lin._ in 

 diam., somewhat obconic-cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 spreading 



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