Eupliorhia.l EUPiioiiBiACE.E (Brown). " 351 



straight, \--\ in. long, i-§ lin. thick at the base, glabrous, purple- 

 brown, becoming grey with age, bearing some minute sessile ovate 

 acute scales or bracts ; peduncles solitary, -J-l in. long, glabrous 

 (or perhaps sometimes puberulous), purple-brown, bearing a whorl 

 of 3 or more rarely 2 ovate or elliptic bracts ^-| lin. long 

 close under the solitary involucre at the apex; involucre l?j-l.^, 

 in. in diam. , campanulate, glabrous ou tside, pubescent within, 

 purple-brown, with 5 glands and 5 rather large subquadrate or 

 transversely oblong toothed lobes ; glands not contiguous, erect 

 or ascending in dried specimens, | lin. in their greater diam., trans- 

 versely oblong or elliptic ; ovary sessile, glabrous ; styles united 

 into a column |-1 lin. long, with spreading broadly cuneate bifid 

 arms -^ lin. long, and \ lin. broad across their tips ; capsule and 

 seeds not seen. MilL Gard. Diet. ed. viii, no, 6 ; Lam. EneycL ii. 

 414; AiL IIorL Eeio. ed. 1, ii. 134; Wllld. Sj^. PL ii. 883; ThuuK 

 Prodr. 86, and FL Caj?. ed. ScJiulL 403; Pers, Syn. PL ii. 10; 

 Saw. Syn. PL Succ. 128; Spreng. SysL Veg. iii. 786; Boiss. in 

 DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 88. E. enopla, Berger, Siil:h Eupliorh. 93, not of 

 Boiss. E. Morinii, Berger^ SiikJc. Eupliorh. 98. Avthacantha 

 desmetiana, Lem. in IlL Rort. 1858, MisceU. ^i.—Euphorbiiim 

 capense, spinis longis simplieihuSj Bradley, Hist, Succ, PL Dec. 2. 4, 

 t. 13. Euphorbium Jiepiagomim, spinis longissimis, in apice frugiferiSj 

 BoerJiaave, IiuL alter PL Lugd. Bat i. 258, with Jig. 



Var. ^, dentata (N. E. Br.) ; angles of the stem or brauclies distinctly toothed 

 between the spines and the centre of each of the grooves between the angles 

 marked with a zigzag (not straight) impressed line, otherwise as in the type. 

 E. enojihty var, dentata, Berger, Sulk. Euphorh. 95. 



South Africa : without locality ; the type and var. jB, cultivated specimens ! 



Central Region ; Prince Albert Div. ; near Prince Albert, Krege in Herh. 

 BoJm, 12969! Graaff Reiuet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 814 1 693 

 (monstrous form) ! Marloth, 4598 ! 



Described from living plants cultivated at Kew. This species has been in 

 cultivation since before 1717, at which period it was introduced by the Dutch 

 into Leyden Botanic Garden and figured by Boerhaave. Subsequently the same 

 specimen was figured by Bradley, for he states that there was only one plant at 

 Leyden. From Bradley's figure, however, two branches represented in Boerhaave's 

 figure are missing, which between the period of the two drawings being made 

 were probably removed for propagation. The Graaff Reinet and Prince Albert 

 specimens are more spiny than the cultivated plant, but seem otherwise to be the 

 same species, 



I have not seen the type of E. Morinii, Berger, but a plant sent to Kew as 

 being that species is certainly not distinct from E. heptagona, nor do I find any 

 character in Mr. Berger*s description to separate it from the latter species. 



^^ 147. E. enopla (Boiss. Cent. Euphorb. 27, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 ii- 89); plant about 1 ft. high, succulent, very spiny, leafless, 



at the base and above, dioecious ; branches 5-9 



when dried about ^-f) in, in diam,, 6-7-angled, 



glaucous-green or greyish-green, except at the very tips, where they 



are light green tinged with purplish ; angles straight, scarcely 



crenulate, obtusely rounded, about ^ in. prominent, separated 



