340 EUPHORBiACE.E (Bro^vn). [FvphorUa. 



late, obtuse, channelled doAvn the face, fleshy, glabrous, soon de- 

 ciduous ; peduncles arising from the depressions immediately behind 

 the spines (not from the axils of them) apparently for several 

 seasons in succession, always shorter than the spines |-1 in. long, 

 bearing 1-3 involucres and a few leaves or bracts ; involucres 

 unisexual, ^^ in. in diam., cup-shaped or somewhat obconic, 

 glabrous or thinly puberulous on the upper part, with 5 glands 

 and 5 subquadrate or transversely subrectangular deeply fringed 

 puberulous lobes; glands (including their processes) 1|— If Hn. m 

 their greater diam.j transversely oblong, with their inner margm 

 inflexedj forming a small lip and their outer with 3-8 entire or 

 bifid linear processes |-f lin. long, apparently longer on the male 

 involucre than on the female; capsule \ in, in diam., with rounded 

 angles, exserted on a pedicel about as long as the inA^olucre, 

 glabrous; styles | lin. long, stout, united up to the large trans- 

 versely oblong spreading stigmas ; seeds 2 lin. long, oblong, with 

 3 (4?) slight angles, scabrid-tuberculate, whitish. Boiss, in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 177. E, Schoenlandn, Pax in Jahrh. Ges, Vaierl KiiU. 

 Ixxxii. ii, 24, and Fedde^ JRepert, i. 59. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliani Div. ; Karroo between the Olifants River ana 



Bockland Berg, Thunhevg \ Clanwilliam (Woodsfield), specimen in Albany Museuni) 

 cultivated at Grahaniritown, collector not stated ! 



Western Region: Van Rhynsdorp Div.; Attys, 400 ft., ScUeddcr, 8089. 

 near Van Hhynsdorpj Marloth, 2696 Q^hotograph only) 1 



Thunberg hag mistaken the stout spines for branches and described it as 

 unarmed, with the branches aggregated at the apex. In the original description 

 in his Prodronius he does not mention the flowers, but later, in Schultes' edition 

 of his Flora Capensis, the plant is described as having the peduncles collected near 

 the apex of the plant, and bearing a simple umbel of flowers. This description is 

 also erroneous, and has been repeated by Boissier, who, however, states that the 

 species is wanting in Thunberg's Herbarium. Thunberg's type is at present in 

 his Herbarium, and consists of a small plant sliced down the middle into two 

 portions ; the specimen is not in flower, but 3 detached umbels belonging to 

 another species are fixed to the same sheet ; these are evidently the peduncles ana 

 umbels described by Schultes. These umbels, however, belong to some species 

 allied to F. maimtamcn^ Linn., and have no connection with E, fasckulata^ 

 Thuub. The other specimens and the photograph quoted above are most certainly 

 identical with E. fmcicuMa, Thunb., and have enabled me to give a TCiore 

 complete description of it ; the Woodsfield specimen is the type of E. Schosnlundn, 

 Pax, The manner in w^hich the peduncles arise from a slight cavity behind the 

 spines is very remarkable and quite unlike the mode of flowering in any other 

 species I have seen. The spines are more erect and incurved on some plants than 

 on others. 



133. E, multiceps (Berger in Monatsschr. Kakt. xv. 1S2, 

 with fig.); succulent, spiny, resembling a cone, -|-2 ft, high ana 

 3-10 in. in diam. at the base, formed of a thick fleshy axis, 

 covered with very numerous densely crowded horizontally spreading 

 branches, those at the basal part in large specimens 2-3^ in. long 

 and |-1^ in. thick, the others gradually decreasing in^ size^ 

 somewhat clavate-cylindric, covered with crowded rhomboid or 

 hexagonal tubercles 1-2 lin. promment, glabrous, dull green; 

 leaves |— J in. long and |-1 lin. broad under cultivation, ciineate- 



