Etcpliorhia,'] EurFTOKBiACE.^^ (Brown). 361 



in pairs H-3 liu. apart, 1-2 lin. long, diverging, on suborbicular 

 spine-shields, brown or greyish ; cyiues solitary in the axils of the 

 teeth at the ends of the branches, on peduncles 1-2^ lin. long, on 

 some plants bearing only 1 bisexual involucre, on others ultimately 

 bearing 3 involucres, of which the central is male and soon 

 deciduous, the two lateral hermaphrodite and persistent, glabrous ; 

 bracts very small, scale-like; involucre l|-2 lin. in diam., somewhat 

 hemispheric-cup-shaped in the male, broadly obconic in the herma- 

 phrodite, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong toothed 

 lobes; glands §-1 lin. in their greater diam., narrowly transversely 

 oblong, entire, dull yellow ; capsule as seen from above acutely 

 triangular, 2^ lin. in diam. and about twice as broad as long, 

 glabrous, exserted on a recurved pedicel 2-21 jin. beyond the 

 involucre ; styles about i lin. long, seated on a small nipple, free to 

 the base, spreading, bifid at the apex ; seeds 1 lin. long, ellipsoid, 

 smooth, Poir, Encych Supply, ii. 60S ; Vera. Syn. PL ii. 11 ; Spreng, 

 Syst, Veg. iii. 786 ; Boiss, in DG. Prodr, xv. ii. 81. E. procumhens, 

 Mecrhurg, PI. Bar, t, 55, not of Mill. E. uncinaia, DC. PL Grass. 

 t 151 ; AU. Sort Keic. ed. 2, iii. 155 ; Fers. Syn. PL ii. 10 ; WilkL 

 Enum, PL Hort. BeroL 500; Poir. EnnjcL SuppL ii. 608; Sjveng. 

 Syst. Veg. iii. 786; Boiss. in BO. Prodr. xv. ii. 81 ; Berger^ SuJcL 

 Euphorh. 38; Marloth in WissenscJi. Ergehn. Deutsche Tiefsee-Exped. 

 ii. iii. 249, fig. 103, 1. E. radiata, Thunb. Prodr. 86, and FL Cap. 

 ed, SeJiulL 403. E, Scoloppudria, Bonn, Hort. Cantah. ed. iii. 88. 

 E. Scolopendrea^ Raw, Syn. PL Sncc. 126. 



Coast Regiox ; Uitenhage Div. ; near the Zwartkops River, Thunhergl 

 Marloth, 4889 ! hiils between the Sunday and Zwartkops Rivers, Zef/hei^ 1100 ! 

 near Uiteuhage, Burke I Redhonse, Mrs. Paterson, 949! Port Elizabeth Div.; 

 near Port Elizabeth, Drege, 17 ! Peddie Div. ; Line Drift, Sim, 6284 ! and 

 ctdtivated specimens ! 



It is possible that this species may occasionally produce branches having 

 3-4 angles, as the Line Drift specimen, Sim, 6284, consists of a plant with about 

 10 branches attached to the tuber, which are all 2-angled, and undoubtedly thi^s is 

 E. stelUUa, but on the same sheet are a few detached branches with 3-4 angles, 

 and in that respect they agree better with E. micracantha, but the spines are 

 stout, as in E. stellaia, and not nearly so slender as in E. micracantlia. 



163. E. micracantha (Boiss, Cent. Euphorb. 25, and in DC. 



Prodr. XV, ii. SO) ; a very dwarf succulent tuberous-rooted perennial, 



Ao~^5 in. long, ^-^ in. rniCK wnen urieti^ tuaiutci^y ajjic^^uni^, 

 4-angled, with slightly concave sides, glabrousj green without mark- 

 ings ; angles slightly toothed ; spines in pairs 2-4 lin. apart, 

 diverging, 1^-3 lin. long, rather slender, on short rounded or 

 slightly transverse spine-shields, grey; leaves rudimentary, scale- 

 hke, about | lin. long, ovate, obtuse or subacute, concave, glabrous, 

 soon deciduous ; peduncles solitary in the axils of the spine-shields, 

 at the apical part of the branches, ^-1 lin. long, ultimately 

 3-flowered, with the lateral involucres on very short peduncles, 



