370 EUPIIORBIACE^ (Brown). [EitphorUa, 



Eastern Region : Natal; in woods near Durban, Brege^ 4614! Inchauga, 

 Marloth, 5111 ! and probably a flowerless specimen from steep rocky hillsides near 

 Camperdown, Burtt-Davy, 10434 ! 



Of this species, Drege only collected a few transverse sections and strips from 

 the angles of the branches, which have been badly eaten by insects. The flowers 

 of his specimen are very young, with neither stamens nor ovary exserted from the 

 involucre, but in the form, size and glands of the involucre, and in the very 

 distinct calyx under the ovaiy and in the styles, it exactly agrees with the 

 Inchanga and Transvaal plants, of which latter I have seen good fruiting ^ 



specimens, but none in young flower. There are no leaves upon Droge's specimen, 

 but upon the Camperdown and Transvaal specimens they are as described above. 

 Upon a plant brought from Inchanga in Natal by Dr. K. Marloth and cultivated 

 by him at Cape Town, the well-developed leaves are |-1 in. long and 5-6 lin. 

 broad, sessile, oblong-obovate, obtusely rounded and mucronate or slightly toothed 

 at the apex. 



176. E. similis (Berger, Sukk. Eupliorb. 69 and 70, with fig.); 

 a tree, 20-30 or more ft. liighj succulentj spiny, leafless or with 

 well-developed foliage leaves ; branches erect, suhparallel, probably 

 forming an obcouic crown, fleshy, usually 4- (sometimes 5-) angled, 

 slightly constricted into parallel-sided segments 6-18 in. long, 2-5 

 in. square, becoming thicker with age, deep green, not tinted witli 

 blue nor glaucous on the younger parts ; angles wing-like, rather 

 thin and not more than 1^ lin. thick at the edge on the younger 

 branches, except at the spine-shields, straight or wavy, nearly even 

 or slightly sinuate-toothed at the margins, when young separated 

 by broad triangular channels l^-lo ^^^- deep, with age growing out 

 into flat faces, their sides marked by a slightly prominent longi- 

 tudinal rib nearly midway between the centre and margin, from • 

 which other slightly prominent ribs obliquely ascend to the 

 spine-shields; leaves sometimes rudimentary and scale-like, l^- li^- 

 long, deltoid, subulate-acuminate and recurved, sometimes deve- 

 loped into a liuear-cuneate or cuneatedanceolate sessile foliage-leaf 

 ^-3| in. long, li-8 lin. broad, with a short subulate point at the 

 apex, deciduous, with small hard auricle-like persistent or deciduous 

 blacki-li-brown stipules at the base; spine-shields f-l-g- in. apart, 

 lJ-1^ lin. long and 1^-lf lin. broad, suborbicular, bearing a pair 

 of diverging and distinctly deflexed spines l|-2 lin. long, blackish ; 

 flowering-eyes 2-4 lin. above the spine-shields and quite separate 

 from them, with 1-2 small blacki^^h-brown scales about or covering 

 them ; flowers and fruit not seen. N. E. Br, in Dyer, Fl. Tro}). 

 Afr, vi. i. 591. E. natalensis, JTort, ex Berger, Sithk. Enj>horh. 71, 

 not of BeniTi. 



South Africa ? Described from a living plant long cultivated at Kew ! 



The native country of this plant is unknown, but as the name '' E. natalensis 

 has been applied to it in gardens, it may possibly have been introduced from Fatal 

 by Mr. T. Cooper about 1S62. It was in cultivation at Kew in 1873. 



177. E. triangularis (Desf. Cat. Hort. Paris, ed. 3, 339, name 

 only); a tree, 15-20 ft. high, having a naked cylindric trunk with 

 a trace of 4-angles, and a rounded crown of curved ascending- 

 spreading branches at the top; branches succulent, in whorl-like 



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