Eitphorlia^ EUPHOKBlACE.f: (Brown). 337 



129. E. Clava (Jacq. Ic. i. 9, t. 85 and Collect, i. 10-t); stem 

 erect, simple and chivate or columnar when youngj afterwards 

 branching, 1-4 ft. high, l\~^\ in. thick, with a long tapering ba^al 

 part ; branches erect, subparallel, about 1 in. thick, cylindric, 

 covered with hexagonal broadly conical tubercles ^-| in. in diani., 

 and 2-3 lin. prominent, the older part of the main stem 

 tessellately marked by impressed lines into elongated rhomboid 

 scarcely prominent areas produced at their apex into a slight 

 tubercle, glabrous, green, not glaucous ; leaves only present on the 

 upper part of the stem and branches, alternate, sessile, spreading or 

 slightly deflexed, deciduous, 1^-5^ in, lung, li-3 lin, broad, linear 

 or linear-lanceolate, acute, more or less tapering to the base, slightly 

 folded lengthwise, glabrous, green ; peduncles solitary in the axils 

 of the leaves or tubercles, usually 3-7 in. long, sometimes shorter, 

 about J-| lin. thick, minutely puberulous, with 3-6 alternate bracts 

 scattered along them and a whorl of 3 forming a cup around the 

 solitary involucre at their apex, withering and persisting several 

 seasons, but not forming spines; lower bracts 3-5 lin. long, li-3 

 lin. broad, lanceolate to elliptic, acute, those under the involucre 

 3-5 lin. long, 1 ^-4 lin. broad, transversely rhomboid-ovate or 

 elliptic-subrhomboid, abruptly apiculate or acute, all sessile, glabrous 

 or minutely puberulous at their very base, green ; involucre sessile 

 within the bracts, about ^ in. in diam., cup-shaped glabrous or 

 rarely minutely puberulous outside, minutely puberulous in front 

 of the glands within^ green, with 5 dark green glands and 5 sub- 

 orbicular or transversely elliptic minutely toothed or ciliate lobes; 

 glands contiguous, H-lf lin. in their greater diam., transverse, 



narrowly oblong or subreniform, entire ; capsule sessile, about ^ in. 



i^ diam., glabrous ; styles 2-3^ lin. long, united into a column 

 1-2^ lin. long with spreading bifid arms |-lj lin. long; seeds 

 2 lin. long, ellipsoid, shortly pointed at one end, rugulose all 

 over, dark brown. Ait, Hort Kew. eel 1, ii. 136 ; Willd. 5/>. PI ii- 

 888; Spreng. SijhL Veg. iii. 787; Bom, in DC. ProJr, xv. ii. 89; 

 Bergev, Suklc. Eupliorh. 120 {exch syn. Trema Clava, Haic). E. cana- 

 licnlata, Lam. Encycl ii. 417. E. coronata, Tltiinb, Prodr, ii. 86 and 

 PI' Cap. ed. Scladt, 404 ; Boiss. m DC Prodr, xv. ii. 89 ; Berger, 

 Suld\ Euphorh, 121. E. clavata, Salish. Prodr. 389. E. radiata, 

 P- Meyer ex Bolss. in DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 90 {not of E. Meyer's 

 Herlariam nor of Tktnh.), Treisia tubercidata, Haw, Suppl PL 

 Succ, 65. — Euphorhium acaidon, erectum, dc, Barm. Ear. Afr. PL 12, 

 \^y fiff' 1. Titltymalus aizoides africanus ishnplici sqiiamato caide 

 ^^am^nerii folio, CommeUn, Pnelud, Bot. 24 and 58, /. 8. 



South Africa: without locality, Thunhergl Drer/el Iltrh, Lamarchl and 



Coast Hjegiox : Uitenhage Div. ; near the Zwartkops Eiver, Zeyher, 1101 ! 

 ^851 ! Cannon Hill, near Uitenhage, MacOican^ 3179 ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; near 

 i^ort Elizabeth, Brege, 40 ! Aloes, BurU-Davy, 14299 ! Karoo, Gill ! Albany 

 ■^^^- ; Grahaniritown (cultivated ?), Schonlaad, 1600 I 



Described from a living plant cultivated at Kew. Specimens of this plant have 

 ^een distriVjuted by Drege and deacribed by Boissier under the name of 



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