EnpliorUa^ EUPllORBiACEiE (Brown). 335 



into a slender glabrous column articulated close to the base, 

 minutely trifid at the apex ; capsule subsessile, about 5 lin. in diam., 

 globose-trigonous, glabrous ; seeds 2 lin. long, subterete, slightly 

 conical, truncate at the base, very abruptly and shortly conic-acute 

 at the apex, very rough with minute irregular tubercles, gvey. 



Coast Region: Clamvilliam Div. ; near Clamvilliam, Schlcclder, 8419! Mac- 

 Owa/i, 32S6 partly (wrongly labelled as from Cannon Hill in Uitenhage Div.) \ 



126. E. bubalina (Boiss. Cent. Euphorb. 26, and in DC. Prodr. 

 XV. ii, 90) ; a succulent shrub, 2-5 ft. high (BurcheU), spineless ; 

 branches 5-9 lin. thick, terete, subtuberculate, glabrous, green ; 

 leaves alternate, scattered along the young branches, very spreading, 

 1 i-6 in. long, ^-1 }.- in. broad, cuneate-oblanceolate or oblong- 



lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, apiculate, cuneately tapering to a 

 narrow sessile base, not distinctly petiolate, slightly folded length- 

 ■^^'ise, glabrous on both sides ; peduncles solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves, spreading or ascending, 1-6 in. long, J-1 lin. thick, once 

 forked or bearing an umbel of 3 simple or once- or twice-forked rays- 

 i-2 in. long at the apex, with a pair or a whorl of 3 bracts at the 

 base of the umbel and 1 or 2 very reduced alternate leaves below, 

 withering and persisting for 2 or 3 years, glabrous ; bracts |-j in. 

 long, ^-| in. broad, deltoid or deltoid-ovate, obtuse or acute, apiculate, 

 subtruncate at the base, glabrous on both sides, green, usually 

 edged with red ; involucre sessile, 2^-3 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, 

 glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate subentire or slightly 

 toothed puberulous lobes; glands l'4-lf lin, in their greater diam,, 

 transverse, oblong or very broadly cuneate-oblong, entire, green, 

 like the bracts; capsule closely sessile, about I- in. in diam., sub- 

 globose-trigonous, slightly narrowing upwards, glabrous ; styles |-1 

 Hn. long, erect, united into a column for half their length, bifid at 

 the apex, green ; seeds 2-2| lin. long, ovoid, acute, slightly 2-keeled 

 on the apical part, very minutely papillate-tuberculate or sub- 

 reticulate to nearly smooth. Berger^ SiiJih EujjJiorb, 121 and 122, 

 fig> 32. E, oxysfeglcty BaJcer in Satind, Bef. Bot in. t 209, not of 

 Boiss. E. clava, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei FJl, Documente, 184, 

 name onhj^ not of Jacg, E, laxrflora, 0, Kuntze, Bev. Gen, PL iii. 286. 



Coast Region : Eathurst I)iv. ; near Port Alfretl, BurcheU, 3991 ! Hogevs, 156 ! 

 Trapps Valley, Miss Dahj, 718 ! King Williamstown Div, ; near the Bufifalo River, 

 Drefje^ 4615! East London Div.; river bank, East London, Galpin, 3110 f 

 Briti^ili Kafiraria, Coope?', 132! 3150! and cuUlmted specimens I 



Described from a living plant introduced by T. Cooper, and cultivated at Kew. 

 In the Refugium Botanicum the glands of the involucre are inaccurately figured 

 and described as yellow. 



127, E. tugelensis (N. E. Br.) ; plant 2-3 ft. high (Gerrard) ; 

 only small pieces of young branches 1 ^—3 in. long seen, evidently 

 fleshy, 2-3 lin. thick when dried, glabrous ; leaves alternate, 

 ascending, sessile, 2^ -6| in. long, 3-5 lin. broad, broadly linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, narrowed at the base, glabrous on both 

 sides : peduncles solitary in the axils of the leaves, 2-6 in. long, 



