342 EuniOKBiACE-^ (Brown). [EttplwrUa. 



glabrous or very minutely puberulous^ with 5 glands and 5 sub- ^ 



quadrate toothed lobes* glands spreading, not contiguous, f-H ^ 



lin. in their greater diam., transverse, broadly cuneate-subrect- 

 angular, entire ; ovary sessile and included in the involucre, 

 capsule just exserted from it, \ in. in diam., depressed subglobose, 

 3-groovedj very minutely velvety-puberulous ; styles united into a 

 column I lin. long, Avith spreading arms | lin, long, bifid, with 

 diverging lobes at the tips; seeds about 1^ lin. long, ovoid, faintly 

 and minutely rugulose, greyish. iV. E, Br. in Gard, Chron. 1913, 

 liv. 355,///. 129. E.Hystrix, Marloth in Wissensch. Ergehi. DeutscJu 

 Tiefsee-Exjjcd, ii. iii. 288 and ^87, Jt(f. 114, 7iot of Jacq. 



Central Rkgion : Laingsburg Div. ; near Matjesfontein, Fillans ! 



Described from living plants sent to Kew by Mr. Eustace Pillan^;, whicli flowered 

 in February, 1914. 



135. E. loricata (Lam. Encycl. ii, 416); a branching spiny 

 shrub, 1-3 ft. high, with well developed leaves ; steras and branches 

 ^— I in. thick, fleshy, cylindric, slightly tuberculate in spiral series, 

 glabrous ; leaves clustered at the tips of the branches, 1-3 in. long, 



1^-3 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse and minutely 

 apiculate at the apex, tapering to the narrow sessile base, glabrous 

 on both sides ; spines (modified peduncles) numerous, rigid, ascend- 

 ing, solitary, ^-2 in. long, grey or brown ; peduncles ^-2 in. long, 

 when young bearing three broadly ovate or orbicular-obovate 

 bracts 2^-3 lin. long and 2i lin. broad surrounding one involucre at 

 the apex; involucre sessile within the bracts, ^ in. in diam., cup- 

 shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate fringed lobes ; 

 glands about 1-1^ lin, in their greater diam., transversely oblong, 

 entire, green; capsule erect on a pedicel about as long as the 

 involucre, 3J lin. in diam., globose, with 3 very slight furrows, not at 

 all lobed, glabrous ; styles united into a column about ^ lin. long, 

 with spreading bifid arms | lin. long; seeds 1| lin. long, ellipsoid- 

 oblongs rugulose, greyish-brown. Pair. Encycl. Svpj^. ii. 607 ; 

 Pers, Syn. ii. 11. E. Hysirtx, Jacq. Eort. Schoenhr. ii. 43, t, 207 ; 

 Willd. Sp. PL ii. 885 (excL references to Petiver d' Plakenet) ; Ait. 

 Sort, Kew. ed. 2, iii. 157 ; Spreng. Syst. Vcg. iii. 786 ; Boiss, in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 90; Berger, SiM\ Euplwrh. 120. E. armata, Thunh. 

 Prodr. 86 and Fl. Cap. ed, SchulL 402. Treisia Hystrix, JJaw. Syn. 

 PI. Slice. 131. Alhagi Maurorum, var,^ IS'ees in Ecldon & Zeyh. 

 Emm. S. Afr. PL 252, not of Medic, 



South Africa : without locality, Thunherg ! 



Coast El^GIO^^ : Van Rhynsdorp Div. ; Gift Berg, Ph'tUips, 7636 ! Clainvilliam 

 Div, ; Lange Valley, Drifjc, 2955 ! Olifauts River Valley, Schkchter, 7989 ! Duls^ 

 356 ! between Olifants River and Kanakas Berg, Zeylier, 1532 ! near Wupperthal, 

 MacOivan, 3223 ! and Rerh, Austr.-Afr., 1955 ! Bolus, 9088 ! near Cknwilliam, 

 Zeipoldt, 670 ! 681 ! 



Central Region: Prince Albert Div. ; Sand River Mountains, MarJoth, 4395 ! 



136, E. atrispina (N. E. Br.); habit unknown, unisexual; only 

 a living branch 2 in. long and -| in. thick seen, succulent, spiny, 



