328 EUPHOKBiACE.E (Brown). [EtqyJiorlia. 



sistent; bracts g-1 lin. long, scale-like, ovate or oblong, entire or 

 ciliate; involucre 4-4| lin. in diara. (21-3 lin. when dried), cup- 

 shaped, whitCj with 5 (rarely 4) glands and 5 transversely rect- 

 angular ciliate lobes, glabrous on the cup outside and within, but 

 pubescent on the back of the lobes and filled with woolly-white 

 bracteoles; glands glabrous, variable on the same plant, IJ-l^ 1^^- 

 long, 1-1 i lin. broad across the tips, sometimes ovate-oblong and 

 very shortly bifid, with the lobes denticulate at the apex^ some- 

 times divided to below the middle, with two diverging lobes cut 

 like the horns of a reindeer, in both cases with the united glandular 

 part dark green, revolute at the sides and the lobes white, some- 

 times divided nearly or quite to the base into 2 much-branched 

 lobes and entirely white, without any glandular dark green part ; 

 ovary sessile, woolly-white at the apex, thinly sprinkled with 

 ascending or spreading hairs or rarely glabrous; styles united to 

 the apex into a slender column l|-2 lin. long; stigmas about -^ lin. 

 long, more or less deeply bifid, with cuneate lobes, radiating and 

 contiguous forming a sort of disc ; capsule sessile, trigonous- 

 subglobose, 2^ lin. in diam., glabrous or with a few hairs; seeds 

 li lin. long, ellipsoid, slightly 4-angled, subtrancate at the base, 

 apiculate at the apex, very minutely tuberculate on the dorsal 

 sides smooth on the ventral, dark brown, and (In the only example 

 seen) with some whitish bodies (exudations?) at the angles, perhaps 

 not constant. E. vipenna, Berger in MonatsscJir, Kaht, xii. 39, and 

 Siikl. Eujphorh. 114; Hemsley in Bot. Mag. t. 7971. 



Vae. iS, laniglans (X. E. Br.) ; glands of the involucre woolly, otherwise as in 

 the type and perhaps only an abnormal form. 



Coast Region: Uitenhage Div. ; Coega, Rogers \ 115! Port Elizabeth Div. ; 

 Zwartkops, Zajlicr, 1098 ! Marloth, 4872 1 4897 ! Redhouse, near Port Elizabeth, 

 Mrs, Paterson, 579 ! near Port Elizabeth, Dregc ! and cnlthated specimens ! 



Ce^^tral Region: var, j3, Jansenville Div. ; near Klipplaat, Marloth, 5270 ! 



The figure in the Botanical Magazine merely represents a rooted branch of this 

 plant and gi^es no idea of its real habit, which is sonaewhat like that of 

 S. Cap at- Medusa, 



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^from dried materiaL 



IVIrs 



118. E, Caput-Medus23 (Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 452, and Amcen. Acacl. 

 iii. 110) ; plant dwarf, succulent, subleafless and spineless, consisting 

 of a globose main body up to 6 or 8 in. in diam., covered (except at 

 the centre) with very numerous crowded branches, fornaing » 

 hemispheric cushion, in adult plants l|-2 ft. in diam., uniformly 

 green ;^ branches erect and 2-4 in. long at the central part, 

 ascending-spreading or spreading and curving upwards at the 

 circumference and G-15 in. long, |-1 in. thick, cylindric or some- 

 what cylindric-clavate. very obtuse, covered with tubercles 2i-4 

 lin.^ long, ll-2| lin. broad and U-2 lin. prominent, obliquely 

 conical, acute; leaves very small, soon deciduous, 1.^-24- lin. long, 

 ^-^ lin, broad, linear, acute or obtuse, thick and fleshy, fl at or 

 slightly concave-channelled above, very convex or obtusely keeled 



