Euijhorhia.l EUPiiORBiACEyE (Brown). 357 



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pair under each involucre, about 1 lin. long^ narrowly oblong, 

 obtuse, apiculate, puberulous ; involucre sessile within the bracts, 

 1;^ lin, in diam., cup-shaped, very minutely pubei'ulous outside, 

 rather dull green, with 5 glands and 5 reddish-tipped subquadrate 

 ciliate lobes ; glands subcontiguous, erect, |-£ lin. in their greater 

 diam., reniform, slightly pitted-rugulose, dingy green or olive-green ; 

 ovary and fruit not seen. 



Central Region : Jansenville Div. ; near Wateiford, Drege 1 



^ Described from living plants sent by Mr. I. L. Drege of Port Elizabeth to Kew 

 m Aug. 1912, where it flowered in June, 1913. A photograph accoiiii>auied the 

 specimens, showing it groAving as a sohtary plant upon the plain. 



156. E. meloformis (Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 135); plant 

 solitary, unbranched, succulent, subglobose, depressed at the apex, 

 --6 in. iu diam., dioecious, tinbrauched, usually 8-angIedj leafless, 

 spmele^ss, but in the male plant with persistent hardened remains of 

 the flower-cymes, glabrous, usually marked, with oblique transverse 

 light green and purple-brown or darker green bands, rarely entiix^ly 

 green ; angles vertical or spiral, obtuse or subacute, obscurely 

 crenate, with leaf- or cyme-scars 1^-3 lin, apart ; leaves rudi- 

 rnentary, soon deciduous, ^-1^ lin. long, linear, channelled, acute, 

 tipped with a short subulate point, minutely ciliate ; cymes arising 

 at the centre of the apex of the plant, spreading over and pressed 

 doM n near the surface, those of the male ^-2^ in. long, divided at 

 1-3 lin. above the base into 3 spreading once- or twice-forked rays, 

 those of the female sessile or subsessile, J-J in. long, divided close 

 to the base into 2-3 simple or once-forked rays, puberulous in both 

 sexes, often persistent on the male, deciduous from the female plant j 

 bracts about 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, apiculate, minutely ciliate ; 

 male involucre about 2 lin. and the female 1-1 i (or in mature 

 fruit 2) lin. in diam., cup-shaped, puberulous outside, green, with ^ 

 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong or subquadrate ciliate lobes; 

 glands i-|- lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong or elliptic 

 or with the inner margin somewhat excavated, entire, light green 

 and minutely punctate in both sexes ; capsule sessile, about \ in. in 

 diam., very obtusely trigonous, minutely puberulous; styles |r-| lin. 

 long, very shortly united at the base, with broadly cuneate spread- 

 iiig 2-lobed tips, ^-f lin. broad; seeds U lin, long, conical-ovoid, 

 acute, smooth, greyish-brown. Willd. Sp. PL ii. 886; Wendl 

 Collect i. 42, L 12; Polr, EnajcL Suppl ii. 608; Boiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 87, partly; Goehel, PjianzcnhioL Schildernng . i. L 1, 

 fiU' 5;N.E. Br. in Keic BuUetiny 1912, 301, icitlfig. E. pomiformis, 

 Thiuih. Prodr, ii, 86, and Fl Cap. ed. ScJmlf. 403. E. meloniformh, 

 Linh, Enum, PI Hart BeroL ii. 9 ; Spreng. SysL Veg. iii. 788.— 

 EupJiorhe a cote de melon. Le VaiUant, Second Voy. 



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Coast Region : UiteuLage Div. ; near tlie Zwaitkops Eiver, Thunherg ; Z^\-art- 

 ^;pri Hills, Mrs. Paterson, 970 ! near Redhouse, Mrs. Paterson I Port Elizabeth 

 A^iv. ; near Port Elizabeth, Br^ge I also cultivated plants I Albany Div. ; West 

 Will, near Grahamstown, Beanie, 555 ! Mogcrs ! 



