332 EUPHOEBIACE^ (Brown). [EiipliorUa^ 



ciliate ; involucre 4-4^ lin. in diam., probably larger wlieu alive, 

 broadly cnp-shaped, with 5 glands and 5 large transversely elliptic- 

 toothed lobes, thinly pubescent outside and in front of the glands 

 and on the lobes within ; glands 1-^—2 lin. in diam., broadly cuneate, 

 palmatifidly divided to about half-way down into 4-6 abruptly 

 reflexed linear segments, dilated and entire or slightly toothed at 

 their apices j undivided part entirely glandular, most minutely 

 rugulose, not pitted, apparently yellowish-green, with the inner 

 margin turned up, forming a small Hp ; segments apparently white ;. 

 ovary sessile, included, glabrous; styles 1^- lin. long, united into a 

 column nearly to the apes, with slightly spreading thickened sub- 

 entire tips; capsule sessile, 3 lin, long and 4^ lin. in diam., very 

 obtusely and shallowly 3-lobed as seen from above, glabrous ; seeds 

 l|-2 lin. long, ovoid, usually slightly keeled on the back, minutely 

 scabrid-tuberculate all over, blackish-brown. 



Coast Eeoio^- : Robertson Div. ; Sand Berg. Pearson^ 2261 ! Kiversdale Div. ;, 

 Albertina, Mvirl and Mair, 174, from Stil Bay, probably also belongs here, but 

 the specimen seen is without flowers or fruit. 



Dr. Muir informed me the above-ground stems or branches of this species are- 

 solitary, 



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122. E. tuherculatoides (K E. Br.) ; stems up to 18 in. long,. 



-^-§ in. thick when dried, unbranched, cylindric, succulent, spineless^ 

 but with persistent hardened peduncles, and covered with rhomboid 

 shortly conical tubercles 3-4 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad and 1-1^ li^- 

 prominent, glabrous ; leaves erect, 4-5 lin. long, \-\ lin. broad, 

 linear, acute^ channelled down the face, glabrous, deciduous ;. 

 peduncles solitary in the axils of the tubercleSj clustered at the 

 apex of the stems, ^1;^ in. long, erect or ascending, glabrous, 

 bearing 1 involucre and 4 deciduous bracts at the apex ; bracts. 

 about 1^ lin. long and 1 lin. broad, obovate or orbicular-obovate, 

 concave, glabrous, falling off as the involucre opens; involucre 

 (dried) about 5 lin. in diam., obconic-cup-shaped, glabrous, with 

 5 glands and 5 lorbicular-subquadrate subentire or very minutely 

 toothed lobes; glands shortly but distinctly stalked, 1^-lf li^i- 

 long, lf-2| lin. broad, broadly cuneate, recurved at the sides and 

 palmately divided to the middle into 3-5 linear segments, entire or 

 bifid at their revolute tips, with the gland part apparently dark 



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styles united into a column 2|-3 lin. long, with 3 thickened entire 

 or bifid erect arms \-\ lin. long ; capsule not seen. 



Coast Hegion : Maltnesbury Div. ; region of Hopefield, road to Theefontein, 

 Baduiiaan, 1042 1 Grootfontein, Bachmann, 1043 ! near Grocne Kloof (Mamre),. 

 Bolus, 4359 ! and without precise locality, G^^ey I 



Closely allied to K tuherculata, Jaeq., but distinguished by its more slender 

 habitj shorter leaves, smaller involucre and glabrous ovary. One specimen has n. 

 few weak hairs on the ovary, but they are very different in character from the 

 stiff hairs which thickly cover the ovary of E. tuhercuJaia. Also the tubercles on 

 the stem appear to be smaller, the involucre is paler in colour when dried, its- 

 lobes smaller, more subciuadrate, much more finely toothed and apparently 

 purple. 



