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EitpIiorUa.] euphohbiace^ (Brown). 371 



groups, up to 3-4 ft', long and l|-4 in. in diam., 3-5-angIed, 

 deeply constricted into segments 3-12 in, long, with parallel sides 

 or gradually tapering upwards from a broader base, Avith the solid 

 central part about | in. thick and the wing-like angles about 

 f-l|- in. broad at the broadest part, 1|— 2 lin. thicl^ at the margin, 

 sinuate-toothed or toothless, green, not glaucous ; leaves very small, 

 soon deciduous, sessile, 3-3 .\ lin, long, 2|— 3 lin. broad, cordate- 

 ovate to cordate-orbicular, obtuse or subacute, glabrous ; spine- 

 shields sometimes separate, sometimes united into a continuous or 



interrupted horjiy brown or greyish margin to the angles even on 

 the same branch, narrow; spines l^~i lin. long, in pairs 4-9 lin. 

 apart, w^idely diverging, brown, becoming grey ; tlowering-eyes 

 2-3 lin. above the spine-pairs and touching or surrounded by the 

 horny spine-shields, each producing 2—3 cymes on peduncles 1-1^ 

 lin. long, bearing 3 involucres, glabrous ; bracts scale-like, i-1 lin. 

 long, broadly ovate or suborbicular, obtusely rounded at the apex, 

 the larger slightly keeled, glabrous ; involucres 2-2^ lin. in diam., 

 cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate or trans- 

 versely rectangular toothed lobes; glands |-1 lin. in their greater 

 diam., rather rigid, transversely oblong or elliptic-oblong, convex 

 from their ends being recurved, rather deeply and somewhat reti- 

 culately pitted or labyrinth ally wrinkled, yellow; capsule 3-4 lin. 

 in diam., with 3 obtusely rounded lobes as seen from above, 

 glabrous, asserted on a curved pedicel 1 1-2 lin. beyond the 

 involucre ; styles united into a column -J— 1 lin. long, with rather 

 slender spreading arms i-f lin. long, thickened and channelled at 

 the revolute tips; seeds 1^—1^ lin. long, oblong, equally obtuse 

 at each end, somewhat keeled down the inner face, smooth, dark 

 ^ brown. Berger, Sulch, Euphorb. 57. E, grandidens, Sim, For. FL 



Gap, Col 317, /. Ul.fig. 1, not of mm. 



Coast Region: Uitenhage Div. ; Redliouse, Mrs. Patcrson, 88, partly! East 

 London Div. ; near East London, Rattray, 383! Marloih, 5100! Galpin, 3108! 

 Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, Flanaf/aUj 170i I also cultuated spechnensl 



Eastern Region : Transkei \ Kentani district, Mhs PegUvj 1203 ! 1419 partly ! 

 Natal ; Amanzirntote, J/i>« Franlcs In ITcrh. ^Yood, 11866 ! 



Partly described from a very old living plant, long cultivated at Kew, a^ad pro- 

 bably obtained from the Jardin des Plantes early in the 19th century. The wild 

 specimens above qnoted undonbtedly belong to this species. 



178. E. Evansii (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 86) ; a tree with a 

 bushy crown of succulent spiny leafless branches at the top ; 

 branches flat and 2-ani^led 



6-18 in. long, 1-lf in. in diam., glabrous, light green; angles 

 wing-like, broader than the solid central part, slightly or distinctly 



smuate-toothed ; teeth ^f in, apart, very broadly triangular and 



about equally sloping upwards and downwards; spine-shields 

 narrow, about 1 lin, broad at the middle and either confluent into 

 a narrow horny border to the angles or (if free) about equally 

 produced above and below the spines, light brown, bearing a 

 pair of very widely diverging dark brown slender spines 2-4 



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