336 EUPiiORBiACE^ (Brown). [EiqjliorUa. 



glabrous, bearing a wborl or cluster of 3 bracts at the apex and 

 1 involucre or ultimately a small 2-3-rayed umbelj with a pair of 

 bracts under each of the lateral involucres when they are developed, 

 naked below ; bracts sessile, |-1 in. long, ^^ in. broad, deltoid- 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, often obtusely subangular at the base, 

 glabrous on both sides ; rays 3-4 lin. long ; involucres sessile, 2|-3 

 lin. in diam.^ cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely 

 oblong entire very minutely ciliate and puberulous lobes ; glands 

 xiot contiguous, 1-2 lin. in their greater diam., spreading, trans- 

 versely oblong, and, from the inner margin being turned up or 

 inwards, somewhat 2-lipped, entire ; ovary sessile, glabrous ; styles 

 united below into a column J lin. long, with ascending-spreading 

 arms 1 lin. long, slightly notched at the apex ; capsule and seeds 

 not seen. 



Easterx REGIO^' : ^ifatal ; near the Tugela Pdver, Gevrardj 1626 ! 



Possibly a small specimen, in the Xatal Herbarium, collected by Mrs. K. 

 launders in Alexander County, may belong to this species. Better material is 

 requii'ed to make a more perfect description. 



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128. E. oxystegia (Boiss. Cent. EuphorL. 27, and in DC. Prodr. 



XV. ii. 90) ; stem or branches (only a few scraps -|-3 in. long seen) 

 succulent, cylindric, possibly branches from a shrub, \—^ in. thick, 

 slightly tuberculate, marked with scars of fallen leaves and bearing 

 the persistent remains of the peduncles, spineless, puberulous or 

 minutely velvety ; leaves in a lax rosette at the apex of the stems 

 or scattered, spreading, 1-4 in. long, 3-7 lin. broad, lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, sometimes apiculate, tapering at the base 

 into a puberulous petiole, otherwise glabrous on both sides, appa- 

 rently slightly fleshy, deciduous ; peduncles solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves, erect, 2-|-6 lin. long, rather slender and scarcely | lin. thick, 

 velvety -puberulous, bearing a pair or a whorl of 3-5 bracts at the 

 base of the terminal simple 2-3-rayed umbel, and 1-2 bracts and 

 sometimes a single ray below it, persisting for 2 or more years ; 

 bracts 2/>-5i lin. long, 2-3 i lin. broad, those on the peduncle 

 lanceolate, those at the base of the umbel and under the involucres 

 all free, not connate as originally described, rhomboid and as broad 



long, acute, recurved at the apex, remarkably angular at or 

 below the middle on each side, puberulous on l)oth surfaces, appa- 

 rently sometimes red or purplish; rays f-1^ in. long, each with 

 1 involucre, puberulous; involucre sessile, l|-2 lin. in diam., cup- 

 shaped, puberulous, with 5 glands and 5 oblong or subquadrate 

 ciliate or toothed lobes; glands §~1 lin. in their greater diam., 

 transversely oblong or very broadly cuneate, entire, puberulous 

 on the back, glabrous above ; ovary not seen, BergeVy SiM-^ 

 EupJiorh. 123. E, hu])leim folia, E, Meyer h {not a), in Brege, Zwei 

 Ffl. Documented 184, name only, not of Jaeq. 



Western Regiok : Little Namaqualand ; between Goodmans Kraal and Kaus 

 (near Koper Berg), Dre^/e, 4616 ! Kamaggas, Whitehead ! near Spektakel, Bolus, 

 9445 ! 



