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JEiiphorhia,\ euphokbiace.^ (Brown). 339 



Elizabeth. It is allied to £. Clava, Jacq., but the manner in which the base of the 

 upwardly tapering stem is abruptly rounded into the root, its very much smaller, 

 very crowded tubercles, shorter peduncles, pubescent glands and straight and mucl 

 shorter styles abundantly distinguish it. In the Cape Herbarium, mingled with 

 JjJ. Clava, Jacq., are 2 pieces of this species under Zet/her, 3851, collected near the 

 Zwartkops River in Uitenhage Div. 



131. E. restituta (N. E. Br.) ; stem erect, 1 ft. or more high, 

 I4— If in. thick when dried, branching, succulent, cylindric, 

 covered with stout conical recurved tubercles 3-5 lin. prominent, with 

 a leaf-scar at their apex, glabrous ; leaves 1-2^ in. long, hnear, acute, 

 longitudinally folded, glabrous, soon deciduous ; peduncles 3-4i- in. 

 long, variably curved, bearing several bract-scars scattered along 

 them and a terminal 5-rayed umbel about I in. in diam., glabrous, 

 Withering and persisting for several seasons ; umbel-rays ^ in. long, 

 bearing 1 involucre and scars of a pair of bracts 2 lin. below it, 

 glabrous; involucre about ^ in. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, 

 With 4 glands and 5 transversely rectangular toothed puberulous 

 lobes; glands about IJ lin. in diam., subelliptic or suborbicular, 

 slightly concave, with 5-6 processes -J-f lin. long along the outer 

 margin, thickened or slightly lobed at their tips, apparently yellow ; 

 ovary exserted on a pedicel curved to one side, glabrous ; styles 

 about § lin. long, united for half their length, with stout recurved- 

 spreading dilated and deeply channelled tips ; capsule and seeds 

 not seen. E. radtata, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pj{. Docamente, 184, 

 name only, not of Thunh, nor of Boiss. 



Western Regiox : Little Namaqualand ; between Zwai-tdoorn Eiver and Groen 

 Hiver, Dvtge, 2941; hills near tStinkfontein (near Garies), ScMcchter^ 1109S! 

 between Stinkfontein and Garies, PiUans, 5579 I 



This is the plant which E. Meyer intended to bear the name F, radiafa, as 

 confirmed by the type specimens named by himself in his Herbarium at Liibeok, 

 ■and is entirely different from the plant which Dr^ge afterwards distributed a^ 

 F- radiata, E. Meyer ; see under £, Clava, Jacq. As the name B. radiata had 

 already been used by Thunberg for a totally different plant, and Boissier has 

 mistakenly described another plant for the present species, it appears to be 

 ■advisable in the face of so much confusion to give it a new name. 



132. E. fasciculata (Thunb. Prodr. 86 and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 



404) ; stem apparently solitary, unbranched, succulent, spiny, 

 erect, ^-1 ft. high, l|-3 in. (or more?) thick, cylindric, covered 

 ^ith large hexagonal broadly and shortly ovoid-conic tubercles 

 4"i in. prominent, each bearing a stout spine (in dried specimens 

 tlie spines often falsely appear to arise in the axils of the tubercles) 

 ^^nd immediately behind the base of the spine a triangular depres- 

 sion, at the apex of which the tubercle terminates in a short stout 

 conical slightly deflexed point, glabrous ; spines (modified peduncles) 

 solitary, rigid, woody, incurved-erect or spreading, 1-2 in. long, 

 H-2^ lin, thick, straight or variably curved, glabrous, apparently 

 pale brown or purple when young, pale grey or whitish with age ; 



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