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EupliorUa^ EUPHOKBiACEiE (Brown). 325 



curved, 1-2J in. long, glabrous^ bearing 4-6 bracts and 1 involucre 

 at the apex ; upper bracts forming a whorl close under the invo- 

 lucre, narrowlv elliptic to suborbicular. 2-21 Hn. lon^, 1-2 Jr lin. 

 broad, concave, rather thin, glabrous, ciliate, green, deciduous; 

 involucre about 41 Hn. in diam. and 3 lin, deep including the 

 lobes, campanulate, glabrous outside and with a few hairs opposite 

 each gJand within, Mith 5 glands and 5 transversely rectangular 

 denticulate lobes ciliate on their margins; glands distant, 1^-2 

 lin. long to the tips of the processes, 1 lin. broad, broadly obovate 

 or orbicular-obovate minutely pitted, with 2-4 abruptly reflexed 

 linear entire processes -J lin. long on the outer margin ; ovary 

 sessile, included, sprinkled with spreading hairs; styles 2\ lin. 

 long, united to half-way up, with the thickened diverging tips, 

 glabrous ; capsule and seeds not seen. 



Western Region: Little Namaoualaiid : hills at Brackdam. 1600 ft., ScJikchter, 

 11123! 



lo appearance the branches of this species very closely resemble those of 

 E. filjfiora, Marloth, but the involucre is only about half as deep and the glands 

 are different, the habit may also be distincb. I have seen numerous branches, but 

 no main stem. 



Specimens collected between Mamre and Saldanha Bay in Malmesbury Div., 

 Dretje, 8202a, represent a very closely alUed species, but are ilowerless. 



114. E. namaquensis (N. E. Br.) ; plant 3-8 in. or perhaps 

 sometimes up to 2 ft. (Pearson) high above ground, succulent, 

 spineless; main stem or body of the plant H-2i in. thick, 

 obconic or cjlindric, tapering into a long tough root that 

 descends very deeply into the ground, fleshy, covered to the 

 apex with very numerous rather crowded erect branches, 

 glabrous, green; branches 1-5 in. long, 2-3|- lin. thick when 

 dried, probably stouter when alive, simple or with short branchlets, 

 sometimes cylindric and obtuse, sometimes elongated and tapering 

 to a rather slender and somewhat spine-like point, tuberculate, 

 glabrous; tubercles laxly spiral, rather scattered, ^-2 lin. promi- 

 nent, cylindric-conical, spreading or recurved, often tipped with a 

 hard whitish conical acute point; leaves only present on the 

 growing tips, 4-8 lin. long, linear and channelled down the face 

 or linear-terete from the margins being infolded, ^-^- lin. ^ thick, 

 acute, glabrous, sometimes (always?) glaucous or white in the 

 channel or upper surface, soon deciduous; peduncles solitary in 

 the axils of the tubercles at the tips or racemosely arranged along 

 the branches, 2-G lin. long, sometimes simple and bearing only 1 invo- 

 Incre, sometimes divided or branching into 2-3 secondary peduncles 

 3-5 lin. long, often resembling slender branchlets and more or less 

 tuberculate, glabrous or the secondary peduncles fchinly pubescent 

 along the upper side; involucre ^-^ lin. in diam., broadly and 

 rather shallowly cup-shaped, pubescent or glabrous outside, with 

 5 glands and 5 transversely quadrangular toothed or ciliate lobes ; 

 glands distant, spreading, |-1 lin. in their greater diam., shortly 



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