346 EUPHOEBIACE^ (Brown). [UicpJwrlia, 



angles subacute, slightly and obtusely toothed, Avith transverse 

 impressed lines 1^-2 lin, apart, between the teeth, scarcely distin- 

 guishable in dried specimens ; leaves rudimentary, soon deciduous, 

 about 1| lin. long, and J lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, very acute^ 

 spreading, glabrous, green, reddish at the margins and tips ; spines 

 (abortive peduncles) solitary between the teeth along the angles, 

 5-10 lin. long, slender, pale brown, bearing 3-4 minute leaves or 

 bracts scattered along the upper part; flowering peduncles 1^-2 

 Im. long, glabrous, purple, with 5-6 oblong acute or obtuse apicu- 

 late glabrous minutely ciliate purple bracts 1-U Hn. Ion 



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involucre solitary, 2h lin. in diam., obconic-campanurate, glabrous 

 below, minutely puberulous at the upper part, dark purple, with 

 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong toothed puberulous lobes; 

 glands contiguous, spreading, l-l-i- lin. in their greater diam., 

 transversely oblong, entire, minutely pitted-rugulose on the upper 

 surface. R cereifi ' ' .,- . ^-^ . __ 



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South Africa : locality and collector unknown, cultivated specimens ! 



Described partly from Mr. Berger's type specimen and partly from living plants 

 cultivated at Kew. i J => i 



- tnc ^ammillaris (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 451, and Amcen. Acad, 

 ni. 108) ; adult plants 1-3 ft. high, succulent, leafless, more or less 

 spmy, erect, branching in a clustered or more or less whorled 

 manner, glabrous, dull green, becoming greyish-brown with age, 

 direcious; branches 1-lf in. thick, cylindric, with 8-17 tessellately 



tuberculate 



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broad and li hn. prominent, those at the tips of the branches 

 hemispheric, broadening with age and becoming very obtusely 

 convex-comcal, with a central whitish leaf- scar, but without a 

 ^ ery evident transverse keel-line across the centre ; leaves rudi- 

 mentary, scale-hke, soon deciduous, J-g. h,,, j^j.^ oblong or broadly 

 ovate, acute or subobtuse, glabrous, but often minutely denticulate- 

 ciiiate; spines (modified peduncles) solitary in the axils of the 

 tubercles, 4-7 Im. long, usually more or less clustered in whorl- 

 Iike groups at intervals along the stem and branches, grey ; flower- 

 ing peduncles solitary in the axils of the tubercles, clustered at 

 tHe apex of the branches, f-1 lin. long, bearing 4-9 closely placed 

 small bracts and 1 involucre, glabrous ; bracts about 1 lin. long, 

 Oblong or obovate-oblong, with recurved acute tips, usually minutely 

 toothed at the apical part, minutely ciliate, otherwise glabrous, 

 ami purple; male involucres about 2 lin. long and 2i-2f lin. i» 

 diara., and the female about 1-1 1- Hn. long and U-U Hn. in diam. 

 in tresh specimens, smaller when dried, cup-shaped, glabrous or very 

 mmutely puberulous outside under the glands, with 5 or in the 

 temale sometimes 4 glands and 5 transversely rectangular toothed 

 or tringed lobes ; gknds not contiguous, those of the male involucre 

 when fresh I-IX (in dried flowers |-1) Hn. in their greater diam., 

 of the female mvolucre f-f Hn. in their greater diam.. in both 



