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something like that of E. iiiberculata, Jacq., but only 3 dried 

 branches have been seen, which resemble those of that species, but 

 are apparently much shorter, 2-2| in. long, 5-6^ lin. thick, covered 

 with elongated subrhomboid tubercles 3-4 lin. long, IJ lin, broad 

 and 1^-2 lin. prominent, compressed-conic, sligiitly recurved; leaves 

 not seen, soon deciduous ; peduncles solitary in the axils of the 

 tubercles at the tips of the branches, ^-1 in. long, erect or 

 ascending, glabrous, bearing a whorl of 4 bracts and 1 involucre at 

 its apex ; bracts elliptic, obtuse, concave, glabrous, not ciliate, 

 probably not more than 2 lin. lung, but only seen in young bud, 

 deciduous; involucre ij- lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped or obconic, 

 glabrous or nearly so outside and within, with 5 glands and 5 

 subquadrate lobes, toothed at their truncate apices ; glands sub- 

 contiguous, broadly cuneate-palmatifid, l2~lf 1^^- ^^^^S ^^^ about 

 2^ lin. across the tips, divided to more than half-way down into 

 4-6 apparently white segments f lin. long, whicli are bifid to the 

 middle and their flat lobes diverging, recurved and toothed something 

 like a reindeer s horn, quite glabrous, and the gland occupying the 

 whole of the undivided part, not pitted ; ovary sessile, included in 

 the involucre, glabrous ; styles united to the apex into a slender 

 column 2^ lin. long, minutely 3-lobed at the apex, exserted, glabrous ; 

 capsule and seeds not seen, 



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125- E. Macowani (N, E. Br.); succulent, spineless, but the 

 branches beset with ascending or suberect hardened remains of 

 peduncles, not spines ; only dried branches seen, 3^-8 in. long, 

 5-8 lin. thick, probably much stouter when alive, cylindric, slightly 

 thickened upwards, covered with elongated subrhomboid tubercles 

 i-^ in. long, 1^-2 lin. broad, and about 1 lin. prominent, glabrous ; 



leaves suberect, 1-H in. long, 1-2 lin. broad near the obtuse or 





acute apex, tapering gradually to the base, linear-spathulate, 

 entire, fleshy, glabrous; peduncles solitary in the axils of the 

 tubercles at the tips of the branches, suberect, |-lf in. long, 

 labrous, bearing 5 bracts and 1 involucre at the apex; bracts 

 3 lin. long, 1-2J lin. broad, obovate, obtuse or rounded at 

 the apex, about 3 of them pubescent on the back and ciliate, 

 glabrous within, the others glabrous on both sides and scarcely 

 ciliate ; involucre about 7 lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped, villous- 

 pubescent outside, glabrous within, with 5 glands and 5 rather 



. _ !d-toothed at the top ; glands 

 21 lin. long and 3^-4 lin. broad across the tips, broadly cuneate, 

 palmately divided to two-thirds of the way down into 5-7 primary 

 linear forked segments, with very shortly bifid or tritid tips, villous- 

 pubescent on. both sides, but with a transverse excavated glabrous 

 gland at the base of the united part, apparently purplish, tips of the 

 segments white ; ovary subsessile, included in the involucre, 

 glabrous ; styles 2 lin. long, exserted, united aluaost to the apex 



