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jEifpJtorUa.] euphoebiacE/E (Brown). 341 



linear or subspathulate-linear, obtusej apiculate, glabrous, green^ soon 

 deciduous ; spines (modified peduncles) solitary, some arising from 

 the axis of the cone, others from the branches, ascending, ^~2^- lin. 

 long and 1-2| lin. thick, straight or curved, angular, with prominent 

 bract-scars, glabrous; flowering peduncles 3-4 lin. long, solitary in the 

 axils of the tubercles at the tips of the branches, bearing 1 involucre 

 and several very deciduous bracts; involucre 2^-3 ]in. in diam., 

 with 5 glands and 5 subfjuadrate ciliate lobes ; glands distant, 

 :j-l;^ lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, concave, 

 minutely punctate, with 2-4 linear or oblong recurved or sub- 

 revolute lobes or processes :^-^- lin. long on the outer margin, 

 truncate or minutely notched at their tips; capsule sessile, 2|-3 

 lin. in diam., slightly 3-grooved, glabrous; styles united into a 

 column J lin. long, with flattened spreading arms J lin. long, 

 revolute and notched at the dilated tips; seeds 1^ lin. long, 

 somewhat conical, truncate at the base, acute at the apex, con- 

 stricted at the middle. A~sirn&]pA. 



brown. 



fi(f 



very mciistmctiy 

 9 ; Marlutli in TT. 

 ,fig, 102, 1; N. 



Central Region: Laiugshurg Div. ; common near Matjesfontein, Marhth, 

 5105 ! Bolus, 13414 ! 



Western Region : Little Xamaqualand ; on flat ground at Ratel Kraal, near 

 Ookiep, locally common, Good in Herh. Pearson, 5047 ! 



Partly described from a living plant sent to Kew without indication of locality, 

 hy Prof. Pearson in 1911. 



131 E, Eustacei (X. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 122 with 

 fig.); plant forming hemisplierical cushions 4|-6 in. high and 9-12 

 in. in diam., composed of numerous crowded succulent branches 

 armed with long white spines, dioecious ; branches 2|-4J in. long, 

 l-l in. thick, cylindric, obtuse, tessellately marked by depressed 

 lines into 6-angled or rhomboid areas (not prominent tubercles) 

 about 2 Hn. long and 2-3 lin. broad, glabrous, light green ; leaves 

 petiolate, ^-l^ in. long, 2-44 lin. broad, oblanceolate, obtuse ^ or 

 subacute, mucronate, tapering^'from about the middle into a petiole 

 2-3 lin. long, glabrous to the eye, but under a lens very minutely 

 puberulous on both sides, deciduous; spines (modified peduncles) 

 solitary, |-2 in. long, ascending or spreading, rigid, very white; 

 peduncles solitary in the axils of the rhomboid areas, when flowering 

 1-1$ in. long, bearing 1 involucre and 2-3 bracts near the middle 

 and a whorl of 3-4 under tlie involucre, minutely and thinly 

 puberulous, light green, becoming transformed into spines after 

 the fall of the flower or fruit; bracts sessile, spreading, 1|-2J lin. 

 long, 1_1| lin. broad, oblong or obovate-oblong, rery obtnse or 

 subejnarginate, minutely apiculate, those at the middle minutely 

 puberulous on the back, those under the involucre larger than the 

 ^thers and glabrous; involucre sessile within the bracts, 2-3 lin. 

 in diam., with the male usually larger than the female, cup-shaped, 



