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326 ' EUPiiOEBlACE.'E (Brown). [Ettpliorlia, 



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but distinctly stalked, 2-lipped, with a shallow transverse depres- 

 sion or cavity in front of the inner margin and the outer lip convex 

 or ill dried specimens sometimes infolded, divided on the outer 

 margin* into 2-4 simple or occasionally forked teeth or subulate 

 processes ^-1 lin. long, usually revolute; capsule sessile or sub- 

 sessile, il-5 lin, in diam., obtusely 3-lobed, but the lobing nearly 

 evanescent at the basal part, tomentose or densely pubescent ; 

 styles united into a column ^-1 lin. long, with spreading entire 

 rather slender lobes ^^-^ lin. long^ channelled down the face ; seeds 

 2-2^- lin. long, ovoid to very broadly ovoid, abruptly pointed at 

 one end, faintly tuberculate or almost smooth. 



Western Region : Great Namaqualand ; plains north of and between Ganus and 

 Grundoorn, 3300 ft., Pearson, 4367 ! 4502 ! between Noachebeb and Grundoorn, 

 Pcarsm, 7809! Great Karasberg region, 4000 ft,, Pearson, 8256 ! Little Nama- 

 qualand ; between Aggenys and Pella, Pearson^ 2992 ! south of Tweefoutein, 

 2700 ft., Pearson, 3049 ! Dabeep, Pearson, 62281 6229! 



115. E. Braunsii (N. E. Br.) ; very dwarf^ succulent, leafless and 

 spineless, but with hardened persistent remains of the peduncles 

 (not spines) on the branches ; plant, in the only two specimens 

 seen, consisting of numerous branches densely crowded upon the 

 upper part of an obconic central stem about 1^ in. thick and com- 

 pletely covering its apeXj all attaining to the same level and 

 forming an obconic mass (excluding the root) 2-3|^ in. high (half 

 of which is buried in the ground) and 3|-5 in. in diam., but 

 perhaps attaining to larger dimensions ; branches all erect or sub- 

 erect, crowded, simple or sparingly branched, 1-3 in. long, f-1^ ^^^ 

 thick, cylindric, thickening upwards, obtusely rounded at the apex, 

 covered with flattish scarcely prominent 4-6-angled tubercles 2i-3 

 lin, in diam,, each with a slightly prominent white leaf -scar, 

 glabrous, dull grey-green; peduncles solitary ia the axils of the 

 tubercles around the apex of the branches, at first about 1-1 J be- 

 long, but apparently developing to 3-8 lin. long, 1 lin. thick, 

 glabrous, bearing 1 involucre and a few scattered bracts, withering 

 and persisting, becoming hard and white, but not spine-tipped ; 

 bracts |-1J lin. long, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliate with 

 long fine white hairs, green, dusted with brown ; involucre about 

 2|-3 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, green, dusted with 

 brown, with 4-5 glands and 5 transversely oblong lobes ciliate 

 with long white and somewhat cottony hairs; glands distant, , 



\-^ lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic or reniform; 

 .depressed or concave at the centre and with 1-4 filiform processes 

 ^-\ lin. long on their outer margin, dull green, with reddish-tinted 

 processes ; ovary immature in the specimens seen, sessile, glabrous ; 

 styles 1| Hn. long, united into a column for two-thirds of their 

 length, entire and scarcely thickened at the tips. 



Ce>'tral REGIO^' : Aberdeen Di v. ; without precise locality, Braunsl Pillansl 



Described from living plants collected by Dr. H. Brauns and sent to Kew by 

 Dr. S. Sclionlaiid. 



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