Bu2)Jiorhia.] euphoebiace.e (Brown). 3G9 



Eastern Region : Xatal ; Umgeni Valley, Cooper I 



Described from a living plant cultivated at Kew, originally brought hy 

 3Ir. T. Cooper from Natal in 1S62, and from living material supplied by 

 Mr. J. Burtt-Davy. This appears in the Kew Hand-List of Tender Dicotyledons, 

 1900, 295, as "^. Coopcri^ Hort./' my description then drawn up not having 

 been published. 



175. E. ingens (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documonte, 184, 

 ex Boiss. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 87) ; a tree, 20-30 ft. high, succulent, 

 leafless, spiny, branching in a broadly obconical manner ; branches 

 erect or ascending, straight, subparallel, all attaining to about the 

 same general level ; flowering branches 4-7-angIed, constricted into 

 segments 3-6 in. long, l-^-S in, (or perhaps more) in diam., with 



lid central part |-1 in. in diam. ; angles wing-likej 2J-3 

 at the obscurely crenate or sinuate margin, f-lj in. 

 broad, deep green; leaves rudimentary and scale-like, 1-H Hn, 

 long, obovate or broadly ovate, acute, with a hard rigid dark brown 

 auricle (stipule) on each side at the base, glabrous, soon deciduous ; 

 spine-shields |—| in. apart, 2-2|- lin. in diam., suborbicular or 

 transversely elliptic or reniform, usually poorly developed and 

 formed of a thin rust-coloured disintegrating substance, spineless or 

 with a pair of reduced spines |-1 lin. long ; flowering-eyes nearly 

 or quite contiguous to the spine-shields, each with 3 cymes on stout 

 peduncles 1-1|- lin. long, bearing 3 involucres, all at first sessile, 

 the lateral ultimately on very short branches; bracts 1^-2^ lin. 

 long, 2-3 lin. broad, very broadly rounded, obtuse or subacute, 

 concave, glabrous; involucres 4-5 lin. in diam., cup-shaped or 

 somewhat obconic, glabrous outside, pale green, with 5 glands and 

 5 transversely oblong or subquadrate fringed lobes; glands con- 

 tiguous, 1^-2^ lin. in their greater diam., somewhat half circular in 

 outline when*' seen from above, and from beneath somewhat tri- 

 angular with roun(ied auricles at the base, thick and fleshy, with a 

 sharp ridge along their inner margin, thence sloping to the acute 

 edge of the outer margin, smooth, but in dried flowers more or less 

 wrinkled, " light green" (MarlotJi) ; ovary at first subsessile, with a 

 conspicuous 3-lobed calyx at its base, becoming exserted in young 

 fruit on a stout pedicel as long as the involucre, glabrous ; calyx- 

 lobes in fruit very broadly cuneate or transversely rectangular at 

 the basal part and produced into 2-3 linear-filiform segments 

 1-2 lin. long; styles united into a column f lin. long, with radiating 

 arms ^-1 Hn. long, subentire or minutely 2-Iobed at the ^ apex ; 

 capsule erect, 4-5 lin. in diam., with the outer substance evidently 

 somewhat fleshy, glabrous ; seeds lf-2 lin. long, ellipsoid, with a 

 slight groove down the ventral side, and a slight keel down the 

 dorsal, very faintly and minutely tuberculate as seen under a lens, 

 brown. B. Cooperi, Berger, SuU. Eaplwrl, Si, fig. 21 on/?/, 72ot as 

 io description. E. grandidens, Adlam in Gard. Chron. 1886, xxvi. 

 720,/^. 139, not of Haiv, 



Kalahari Regtox : Transvaal; near Barberton, Pole Fcans, 2919! 2931! 

 Pi-uizen Farm, Potgieters Eust, BuHt-Davy, 2200 ! 5658 ! 



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