338 EUPHOEEIACE.'E (Brown). [EupJwrhia, 



^'E, radiata, E. Meyer." But it is not the plant to which E. Mejer gave that 

 name. The type of E, radiata, E. Meyer, in E. Meyer's Herbarium at Liibeck, 

 with the name written in his own handwriting, and a note added by him to the 

 effect that it differs from E, tuherculata by the glands of the involucre being 

 toothed, is Drege, 2941, collected in Little Namaqualand, Aug. 12, 1830, and is 

 quite distinct from the plant distributed by Drege as " ^. radiata, E. Meyer," of 

 which no specimen exists in E. Meyer's Herbarium, so that Drege must have had 

 the two species mixed, only giving one of them to E. Meyer for naming purposes. 

 1 have seen in two of the sets of Drege's plants, however, a section of the stem of 

 the ti-ue E, radiata, E, Meyer, distributed with the specimens of E, Clara, Jacq., 

 under the name *■' E, radiata, E. Meyer," but other sets have no such sections. 

 As E. Meyer did not publish descriptions with his names, and Boissier describes a 

 different plant from that which E. Meyer intended to bear the name of E. radkda, 

 :and as Thunberg had long before described another plant as E, radiata, I have 

 described the true E. radiata, E. Meyer, below as E, restituta. E. Clara and 

 E. restituta grow in totally different regions 500 miles apart. I have dissected a 

 flower of the type specimen of E, cmvnata, Thunb., in Thunberg*s Herbarium, and 

 iind it to be in everj^ way identical with E, Clara^ Jacq. 



E, HaKorthii, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 35fj (not of 357), founded upon Treisia 

 Clavaj Haw. Syn. PI. Succ. 131, is quoted by Boissier as a synonym of E. Clara, 

 Jacq., but as Haworth describes the glands as being '' pectin ate -serrate " it cannot 

 be E, Claraj Jacq. 



130. E. pubiglans (N. E. Br.) ; stem succulent, spineless, simple 

 or sparingly branched, in the specimens seen 3^^-12 in. high, H'2 

 in. thick at the base, where it is abruptly rounded into the root 

 and gradually tapers upwards to |-1 in. thick at the very obtuse 

 apex, covered Avith densely crowded tubercles, glabrous, pale 

 greyish-green on the young growth, becoming grey; tubercles 

 crowded, arranged in 13 spirals, 2-3^ lin. in their greater diam. 

 and 1^-3 in their lesser, rhomboid or 6-angled at the base, very 

 obtuse, subhemispherical, l;^-2^ lin. prominent; leaves f-li" ^^* 

 long, linear, with margins inrolled or folded together and in that 

 state about ^ lin. broad, glabrous ; peduncles f— 2^ in. long, 

 puberulous, with 3-5 small lanceolate acute bracts scattered along 

 them and a whorl of 5 large bracts at the apex, forming a perfectly 

 circular very flattened or plate-like cup |-1 in. in diam. around 

 and closely embracing the involucre, glabrous except at the base 

 around the involucre, apparently purplish ; involucre about J i^- 

 in diam., minutely puberulous outside, with 5 glands and 5 rather 

 large broadly rounded minutely toothed and ciliate lobes rising in 

 a blunt cone f-| lin. above them; glands contiguous, IJ-l^ ^^^" 

 in their greater diam., transverse, oblong, entire, distinctly puberu- 

 lous on the upper surface along the outer and inner borders ; ovary 

 subsessile, subglobose, slightly 6-angled, puberulous ; styles f-f li^- 

 long, united into a column for ^-| of their length, straight, at first 

 slightly diverging, but scarcely exserted beyond the lobes of the 

 involucre, after fertilisation becoming parallel and closed together, 

 quite entire at the apex, puberulous on the basal part ; capsule 

 and seeds not seen. 



Coast Region : Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, Drege I 



Described from living plants with shrivelled flowers attached and fresh flowers 

 preser^-ed in fluid ; sent to Kew in Seot. 1912 by Mr. I. L. DrG£?e, of Po^ 



