^H2^Jio7'hia.] EUPHOEBiACE^ (Brown). 345 



rather slender, about | lin. thick at the base, reddish or bro\Mi, 

 minutely puberulous, bearing 2-3 minute scale-like bracts ; flowers 

 and fruit not seen. 



South Africa: without locality, Pillans\ 



^ Allied to E, aggrerjata, Berger, and E, pulrinataj Marloth, but readily dis- 

 tinguished from all by the teasellately variegated stems and niinntely puberulous 

 spines. 



140. E. captiosa (N. E. Br.) ; habit probably similar to that of 

 E, hejjfagona, Linn. ; plant about 1 ft. high, sparingly branching 

 from the base; stems erect, succulent, spiny, Ih in. or more thick, 

 10-angIed in the only portions of a dried stem seen, glabrous, 

 ■apparently gi^een and not glaucous j angles apparently obtuse and 

 not very prominent, with an impressed line down the centre of each 



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^1 an. long, 



inear-lanceolate, thick and fleshy, minutely puberulous and ciliate, 

 soon deciduous ; spines (modified peduncles) solitary, spreading, 

 ■closely placed, 1-H lin. apart, §-1 in. long, j-f lin. thick, glabrous, 

 ■apparently purplish or reddish, becoming grey, bearing 5 or 6 

 minute scattered scales or bracts ; peduncles solitary, clustered at 

 the apex of the stems, about 1 lin. long on the specimen seen, but 

 probably elongating wath age and becoming transformed into spines 

 at the fall of the flow^er or fruit, bearing 4-5 minute scale-like 

 bract-i scattered along them, and a whorl of 4 larger bracts immedi- 

 ately under the solitary involucre at the apex; larger bracts |-1J 

 lin. long, ^-1 lin. broad, oblong, very obtuse or slightly notched at 

 the apex, apiculate, slightly keeled down the back, adpressed to and 

 the longer about equalling the involucre^ minutoly ciliate, thinly 

 puberulous on the inner face, glabrous on the back ; involucre on 

 dried specimens 1| lin. in diam., obconic, glabrous outside on the 

 ■cup and the 6 glands, puberulous within and down the centre of 

 the backs of the 5 subquadrate or transversely rectangular lobes ; 

 glands not contiguous, erect in the dried specimen, | lin. in their 

 greater diam., transversely elliptic, entire, deeply wrinkled or 

 corrugated on their upper or inner surface, especially at the outer 

 margin; ovary sessile, glabrous ; styles united into a column i lin. 

 long, with stout spreading arms |- lin. long, bitid at their tips ; 

 ■capsule and seeds not seen. 



Ce^'tral Region : Aberdeen Div. ; near Aberdeen, SchOnland, 1661 ! 



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Described from a specimen preserved in the Albany Museum,, which was 

 ►cultivated and flowered in the Muaeum grounds in September, 1904. 



141. E. submammillaris (Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. 95); plant 



•succulent, spiny, much-branched, in the specimens seen forming 

 a small bushy mass 4-8 in. high, perhaps ultimately makmg 

 a dense clump; branches (excluding the spines) f-1 in. thick, 

 erect, 7-10-angled, with grooves about 2 lin. deep between the 



^Jigles, glabrous, deep green, without markings and not glaucous; 



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