I 



324 EUPiiOEBiACE.E (Brown). [EnpliorUa. 



glands, which from a photograph appear to be transversely elliptic 

 with 3-4 small teeth on their outer margin. 



Central Region : Prince Albert Div. ; near Prince Albert, Marloth, 4397 

 partly ! 



This plant is quoted by Marloth under E. crassipes, but ia certainly distinct from 

 the plant he describes by that name, and except perhaps in the length given of 

 the pedicels in no ^Yay ia represented by the description of that species ; the 

 absence of the flat top to the stem at once excluding it from the group to which 

 E, artssipes belongs . 



112. E. filiflora (Marloth in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. iii. 123, t. 8, 

 fig. 3); plant S-12 in. high, succulent, spineless, but bearing the 

 dried remains of long peduncles ; main stem slightly clavate or 

 subcylindric, 3-4 in. thick^ covered with conical slightly recurved 

 tubercles and bearing along the upper part numerous short thick 

 branches, glabrous; branches ascending, 2—3^ in. long, 4-9 lin. m 

 ■diam., cylindric, covered with rhomboid straight or slightly re- 

 curved tubercles; leaves in a small cluster at the apex of the 

 branches, soon deciduous, f-l| in. long, linear; peduncles solitary 

 in the axils of the tubercles at the tips of the branches but 

 withering and persisting on the older parts, erect, 2-3^ in. longj 

 ^ lin. thick, glabrous, bearing 1 involucre and the scars of 3-o 

 fallen bracts ; involucre ^^ in. long and 3-5 lin. in diam., 

 elongated-obconic, glabrous outside and within, with 5 glands and 

 5 erect oblong or rectangular lobes deeply toothed at their apex ; 

 glands not contiguous, 2 lin. long and as much in breadth across 

 the tips of the segments, divided to two-thirds of the way down 

 into 3 diverging linear segments, bifid and recurving at their tips, 

 greenish-yellow ; ovary (only seen in an immature condition) sub- 

 sessile, glabrous ; styles united into a column 2.^ (or perhaps more) 

 lin. long, with shortly bifid arms 1 lin. long, not dilated nor thickened 

 at the tips. 



Western ■REGIO^-: Little Namaciualand ; near Concordia, KrapoJil in H^^'^- 

 Marloth, 5119 ! 



I have also seen a specimen belonging to the Albany Museum from a plant 

 cultivated at Grahamstown, stated to have been originally sent from Matjesfontein 

 in LaingsburgDiv., by Dr. Purcell. I suspect, however, that some error has been 

 made as to the locality. 



113, E. brakdamensis (N. E. Br.) ; succulent, spineless, but with 



erect or ascending persistent remains of hardened peduncles, only 

 some dried branches seen, 2^-5 in. long and 4-5 lin. thick including 

 the tubercles, usually simple or occasionally sparingly branched, 

 glabrous and apparently pale green or glaucous, covered with 

 elongated rhomboid conical tubercles 2^-3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad 

 and l-H lin. prominent, slightly recurved; leaves erect, |-1 \^- 

 long, about ^ lin, broad, linear, obtuse or subacute, entire, ^vith 

 incurved margins or channelled down the face, fleshy, glabrous and 

 perhaps somewhat glaucous ; peduncles erect or ascending, slightly 



