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116, E- baliola (X. E, Br.); succulent, spineless; main body of 

 the plant globose or subcylindric, in the specimen seen 4 in. high 

 ^nd 3 in. in diam., covered with transversely diamond-shaped 

 tubercles about ^ in. in their greater diam. and \ in. prominent, 

 arranged in numerous crowded spirals, and formed by the per- 

 sistent remains of the deciduous branches, at first grey, becoming 

 brown ; branches covering the whole top of the plant, not absent 

 from the centre, erect or ascending, |-2 in. long, 2-3 lin. thick in 

 the dried specimen, probably twice as thick when alive, cylindric, 

 scarcely or not at all tuberculate, but marked out by impressed 

 lines into elongated areas 1-3 lin. long and |-1 lin. broad when 

 dried, scarcely or not at all prominent, marked at their apex with 

 •a conspicuous white round leaf -scar, glabrous ; leaves not seen ; 



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peduncles 2-4 clustered at the apex of the branches, 1-3 lin. lon^, 

 bearing about 4 bracts and 1 involucre, glabrous, persisting and 

 withering; bracts 1 lin. long, |-| lin. broad, obovate, concave, 

 thin, ciliate with rather long hairs; involucre 2-2^ lin. in diam. 

 ■and 1-1;^ lin. deep, shallowly cup- shaped, glabrous outside and 

 ^vithin, but apparently woolly within from being tilled with very 

 Woolly white stamens, with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong 

 lobes ciliate with white woolly hairs; glands distant, apparently 

 deflexed-spreading, |-1 lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 oblong, with a slight depression in front of the inner margin and 

 3-4 subulate teeth \~^ lin. long along the outer margin, dark 

 velvety brown ; ovary included in the involucre, obconic, trigonous, 

 densely covered w^ith white woolly hairs; styles J lin. long, very 

 shortly united at the base, stout, with entire spreading tips. 



Western Region : Great Namaqualand ; Great Karas Berg Eange, on slopes 

 between Krai Kluft and Xanida Sud, 5200 ft., growing among stones, Pearson, 



In tills species the tubercles on the main body of the plant are formed from the 



persi:?tent bases of the branches, from which the remainder has withered and 



fallen away ; this character, so far as I am aw^are, separates this species from all 



others at present known. From E. fitsca, Marloth, it differs by the branches 



covering the whole top of the plant to the centre and the filaments of the stamens 



below the joint are twice as long and the hairs ou them are much longer and more 

 woolly. 



117. E, inermis (Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. viii. no. 13) ; succulent, spine- 

 less, leafless ; body or main stem short and thick, producing a crown 

 of three or more series of crowded branches around the central 

 flattened or depressed tuberculate obconic area at the top, and not 

 rising much above ground level, tessellatelj tuberculate ; branches 

 1^-10 in. long or under cultivation much longer, 5-6 lin. thick, 

 ascending or ascending-spreading, cylindric, tessellately tuberculate, 

 glabrous, dull green; tubercles rhomboid, 2|-5 lin. long, 1|-2| lin. 

 l>road and | lin. prominent, shortly and obtusely conical, with a 

 snuill white leaf-scar ; leaves minute, rudimentary, soon deciduous, 

 I lin. long and broad, ovate, acute ; peduncles solitary in the axils 

 <^f the tubercles at the tips of the branches, 1^-2 lin. long, stout, 

 bearinir abnnf J. l^mnf^ nnd 1 involn^rR. rfabrous. sometimes per- 



