:;66 EUPHORCIACE.E (Brown). [EupliorUa . 



enclosed in tlie si^ine-shields ; cymes usually 3 together at each 

 flowering-eye, sessile or on peduncles up to li lin. long, each with 

 3 involucres, the central male, the lateral hermaphrodite ; bracts 

 l„3 ]iji^ long, scale-like, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 

 "labrous; involucre 2-21 (when dried lA-2) lin. in diam., cup- 



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shaped or campanulate, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate 

 toothed lobes, all bright yellow ; glands contiguous or subcontiguous, 



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lin. beyond the involucre, 3-angled, with a distinct keel down each 

 angle and a disc-like calyx at its base ; styles united into a column 

 |-1 lin. long, with bifid spreading or recurved arms \—^ lin. long; 

 seeds immature in the specimens seen. 



Var. ^, Dregei (N. E. Br.); involucre narrowly funnel-shaped or obconic 

 lJ-2 (when dried J-1) lin. in diani. ; otherwise a.s in the type, bat the frnit is 

 unknown. E. Ledienii, N. E, Br, in Bot. Mtuj. t, 8275. £. canariensht Thunb, 

 Prodr. 86, and Fl, Cup. ed. ScMdt. 403^ not of Linn. 



Coast Region : Uitenhage Div. ; Karoo-like hills between the Sundays and 

 Zwartkops Rivers, Zeyker, 1097 1 Zwaitkops, Marloth, 4891 ! Kedhouse, Mrs* 

 Patcrson, 88a! 88b! 720! 880! Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, 

 Drei/e, 42 ! near Bethelsdorp, 3Irs. Pdterson, 2019 1 Div. ? Noivals Poort, Jio^erii, 

 2035 ! also cultivated 'plants \ Yar. ^ : Humansdorp Div. ; near Zeekoe River, 

 Thunherrj ! Port Klizal>eth Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, Dvc'je ! 



Described partly from living plants and flowers in fluid. The form figured m 

 the Botanical Magazine, and of wlueh a specimen with flowers in fluid has also 

 been sent to Kew by Mr. I. L. Drege of Port Elizabeth, seems distinctly to differ 

 from the type in its naiTOwer and propoilionately more elongated funnel-shaped 

 involucres. It may be specifically distinct, but living plants with fruit and seeds 

 require to be compared before this point can be decided. The specimen of 

 E. canariensis in Thunberg's Herbarivun appears to be the same as the variety 

 Dregei^ but is without flowei^s, so that good flowering specimens from the locality 

 where Thnnberg collected it are required to confirm the identification. 



172. E. virosa (Wilkl Sp. PI. ii. 882); a succulent spiny leafless 

 bush formed of a clump of erect stems, 5-7 (or according to Paterson 

 up to 15) ft. high and 2-3 in. in diam., simple or sparingly branched 

 at the upper part, 5-7-angled, constricted at intervals of l-?>-3 in., 

 so that the angles appear to be broadly scolloped, green, ^vith a 

 bluish tint, probably glaucous ; angles not spirally twisted, separated 

 by concave channels about ^ in. deep, slightly sinuate-toothed, with a 

 continuous horny margin 1 ^-i^ lin. broad ; spines in pairs \-\ in. apart, 

 2-6 lin. long, stout, widely diverging, straight or slightly curved, 

 brownish-grey with darker tips ; leaves rudimentary, transverse, 

 about \ lin. long and 2 lin. broad, truncate, soon deciduous ; 

 flowering-eyes seated 2-3 lin. above the spine-pairs and nearer the 

 pair of spines above than below them on the specimen seen ; flowers 

 not seen, but according to Paterson's figure, each flowering-eye 

 produces but one 3-flowered cyme, on a peduncle 2-3 lin. long ancl 

 2 lin. thick, with involucres about 4 lin. in cliani., having contiguous 

 transversely oblong glands. Fers, Syv. ii. 10; Pair, EncycL Suppl- 

 ii. 607 ; Spreng, Si/st, Veg. iii. 786. Eujphorhia sjp., Paterson, Narva- 



