06 2 EUniOEBiACE.E (Brown). [Ettphorhia. ^ } 



glabrous ; bracts scale-like, ^-^ lin. long, ovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 glabrous ; male involucre about 1, female about 2 lin. in diam., 

 cup-shaped, glabrous outside, apparently purple on some specimens 

 and greenish-yellow on others, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate 

 minutely toothed lobes; glands ^f lin. in the male and about 

 1 lin in the female involucre in their greater diam., transverse, 

 narrowly oblong, entire, rugulose ; capsule about \\ lin. long and 

 2i lin, in diam., deeply 3-lobed as seen from above, with acute 

 angles, glabrous, exserted on a recurved pedicel 2-3 lin. beyond the 

 involucre; styles shortly united at the base, spreading, rather 

 slender, shortly bifid at the apex ; seeds subglobose, about f lin. in 

 diam., smooth. E. teirayonay BaTcer in SaimderSj R^f^^if- Bot. u 



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South Africa : without locality, cultivated specimen, Cooper ! 



Coast Region : Bathurst Div. ; between Blue Krantz and the sources of 

 Kasuga River, BurcMl, 3901 ! Albany Div. ; Fish River Rand, Jhitton, 494 ! 

 Fort Beaufort Div. ; between Fish River and Fort Beaufort, Dregc, S206c ! Div. ? ; 

 Sheldon, Ilatton, 488a ! 



Central Region: Somerset Div. ; between the Zuurberg Range and Klein 

 Bruintjes Hoogte, Brege, S206a ! 



This is distinguished from E. stellatitj Willd., by its 4-angled branche;^ and more 



slender ;S]jine3. 



164. E. clavigera (N. E. Br.); dwarf, succulent, spiny aud 



leafless, 



Willd 



branches have been seen ; branches clavate, 3-6 in. long and f-1 

 in. in diam. (including the teeth") at the apical part, thence gradually 

 tapering to a stalk-like base 2-3 lin. thick, apparently more or less 

 decumbent or radiately spreading, 3-angled, glabrous, green, not 

 glaucous ; angles apparently much compressed and wing-like, deeply 

 toothed; teeth 2-3 lin. prominent and 5-9 lin. apart, deltoid, 

 bearing a pair of diverging pale brown spines 3-5 lin. long at their 

 summits, on small spine-shields, which sometimes extend a short 

 distance down the teeth above or below the spines ; leaves very 

 rudimentary and scale-like, |-J lin. long, deltoid ; cymes solitary in 

 the axils of the stem-teeth, subsessile, with 3 involucres ; bracts 

 1^ lin. long and as much in breadth, broadly ovate, obtuse, with 

 membranous very minutely toothed margins, glabrous ; male in- 

 volucres sessile, \ in. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside and 

 within, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rectangular ciliate lobes ; 

 glands contiguous, 1-1^ lin. in their greater diam., rather narrowly 

 subreniform, two-lipped, from the inner margin being turned up or 

 inwards, entire, probably yellow or yellowish-green ; female plant 

 not seen. 



Kalahabi Region: Swaziland ; common on sandy open ridges near Eremmers- 

 dorp, 1800-2200 ft., Bartt-Davy, 3010! 



165. E. enormis (X. E. Br.) ; dwarf, succulent, spiny and leafless ; 

 root-stock obconic or somewhat carrot -shaped, 3-4 in. thick, fleshy, 



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