EttphorUa.'] eupiioi;biace.e (Brown). 355 



puberulous ; spines (modified peduncles) solitary between the teeth 

 along the angles, 2-5 lin. long, stout, thickened and branching at 

 the apex into a whorl of 3-5 sharp spines li-4 lin. long and \ lin. 

 thick, rigid, puberulous when young, becoming glabrous, brown ; 

 involucre sessile at the apex of the peduncle and surrounded by the 

 whorl of very young spines arising at its base, l|-2 lin. in diam., 

 cup-shaped, puberulous, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate fringed 

 lobes ; glands distant, f — J lin. in their greater diam., transverse, 

 reniform or obtusely cordate ; ovary not seen. Botss, in DC, Prodr. 

 XV. ii. 89 ; Benjer, Siihk. Eupliorh. 99. — Tithymalus africanus 8ptnoitf('S 

 Cerei effigei^ Moris. Hist. iii. 3i5 ; PluTc. Almagest, ii. 370, i. t 231, 



Central Region : Beaufort West Div. ; near Beaufoi-t West (photogra[)li), 

 Marlothl Jan^ienville Div. ; near the Sundays River, Drege, 8213, ex Boissier. 

 Carnarvon Div. ; Boter Leegte, Alsfoyi, 2600 ! 



Western Region : Little Namaquuland ; plains south of Nieuwefontein, 

 2300 ft., Pearson, 3362 ! 



Partly described from living plants cultivated at Kew. In the Kew Herbarium 

 is a drawing of this species, labelled ** Received from Mr. Bowie in 1822/' which 

 was probably made from the plant upon which Haworth based his description. 

 The plant figured by Plukenet and described by Morison is referred to L. eei'eiformis 

 by Linnocus, but it certainly belongs to this species, and not to E. cereiformis as 

 xmderstood by Linneeus himself and all later authors. 



153, E. astrispina (N. E. Br.) ; stem of the only specimen seen 

 (perhaps a young plant) succulent, spiny, leafless, 6 in. high, 2| in. 

 in cliam., unbranched, cylindric, 16-angled, glabrous, dull green 

 tinted with brown above the middle, dull grey-brown or earth- 

 colour below ; angles separated by acute channels about ^ in. deep 

 and divided by impressed lines into transversely oblong 6-angled 

 areas which rise into short conical tubercles ; leaves rudimentary, 

 soon deciduous, rigidly fleshy, IJ lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 recurved, entire, minutely ciliate ; spines (modified peduncles) solitary 

 between the tubercles along the angles, stout, 0-3 lin. long, branch- 

 ing at the apex into 4-6 radiating spines 2|-7 lin. long and f-1 lin. 

 thick, grey ; flowering peduncles all at the apex of the stem, stout, 

 mostly 1-2 lin. long, bearing 5-8 scale-like oblong obtuse minutely 

 puberulous bracts and 1 involucre surrounded by the very immature 

 spines or sometimes without them ; involucre 2 lin. in diam., 1 lin. 

 deep, cup-shaped, minutely puberulous outside, with 5 glands and 

 5 transversely oblong toothed lobes; glands contiguous or nearly 

 so, |--1 lin. in diam,, transverse, obloug or subreniform, entire, 

 niinutely pitted; capsule sessile, 2 J lin. in diam. in the example 

 seen, but perhaps immature, slightly conical, obscurely 3-angled, 

 glabrous; styles 1 lin. long, united to their middle, with stout 

 spreading bifid tips ; seeds not seen. 



Willowmore 



Thiri plant is nearly allied to E. stellsds^ina , Haw., but has much shorter spines. 

 It so closely resembles some of the cylindric species of Echinocactus, that when I 

 first saw the specimen I mistook it for a member of that genus. 



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