348 ErpiiOKBiACE.E (Brown). [_Eu]^lioTUa. 



rudimentary, soon deciduous, \-\\ lin, long, l-| lin. broad, ovate 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, acute ; spines (modified peduncles) solitary 

 in the axils of the tubercles, 3-8 lin. long, horizontally spreading, 

 more or less clustered in whorMike groups at irregular distances 

 along the stems and branches, green when young, changing to red 

 and finally grey, bearing about 4 minute deciduous bracts ; flowers 

 clustered at the apex of the branches, solitary in the axils of the 

 tubercles; peduncles in the male plant 1-1 J lin. long, bearing 

 1 involucre and 3-4 oblong obtuse entire bracts |-1 lin. long ; in 

 the female plant and the involucre sessile, surrounded by the 

 bracts; involucre of the male plant 2^-3 lin. in diara., of the 

 female IJ-IJ lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, green, with 5 

 glands and 5 transversely rectangular denticulate lobes; glands 

 if~l^ lin, in their greater diam. in the male and about |-| lin. in 

 the female plant, transversely oblong or with their inner margin 

 nearly straight and the outer forming a semicircle, entire or 

 minutely crenulate, rugose, green ; ovary sessile, subglobose, 

 scarcely angular, without a calyx at its base, glabrous; styles 

 1 lin. long, united for half their length into a stout column, with 

 stout spreading deeply bifid tips, green ; fruit not seen, E, sco- 

 poUana, Stead. Norn, ed, 2, 615; Boiss, in DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 87. 

 £. enneayona, Haw. Misc. Nat, 184, and Syn. PL Succ. 128; Spreng. 

 Syst. Verj. iii. 786. E. mammUlaris, Berger in Monatsscfir. KoB. 

 xii. 109, with figi^., and Sukh. EupJwrb. 90,/^. 22, incl var. spinosior, 

 not of Linn, 



South Africa : without locality, cultivated plants ! 

 Coast Region : Worcester Div, ; near Worcester, Plllans ! 



Described from living plants cultivated at Kew. This species seems to be the 

 one generally cultivated under the name of E. mauuaillaris, and I think that, 

 besides the synonymy above given, it is probable that some of the references to 



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whilst E. 

 Jimhriata of Eoth was not published until ISOl although maintained by ])reference 

 by Boissier as a species of his own. E, entxmfjima, Haw., was published in 1803. 

 E, mammUlaris, Thunb. Prodr. 86 and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 403, which is stated to 

 have been collected at Hantam, may belong to this species, but the description is 

 quite insufEcient to determine, and the colour of the flowers is not mentioned. 

 There is no specimen of it in Thunberg's Herbarium. I believe that I am right 

 in referring E. nmecujona of Haworth to this species, his description fairly agrees 

 and the yellowish-green involucre, as described by him, distingvushes it at once 

 from E. cereifmmis, to which species Berger has referred it. The pendulous 

 branches mentioned by Haworth are occasionally been in this and allied species 

 and I think are due to a want of sufficient water at the time of their formation. 



E, mammillarh mentioned in the note under that species may belon 

 retain Scopoli's name for this i)lant, as it was published in 1787, 



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144. E. cereiformis (Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 451,excl.all syn.); stems 



2-3 ft. high, 1-2 in. thick, erect, branching, succulent, spiny, 

 9-11-angled, deep green, not glaucous ; angles acute, with triangular 



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apart, when young tipped with rudimentary recurved fleshy lan- 

 ceolate acute leaves, usually 1-U (but sometimes up to 4) lin. long, 

 minutely ciliate and usually with a few hairs on the back ; spines 

 (modified peduncles) solitary, 2i-5 Kn. lon^. verv snreadinff, needle- 



