372 EUPHORBIACE^ (Brown). [EiiphorUa. 



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lin. long, with or without a pair of minute points near their 

 base, one on each side of the leaf -scar; leaves very small, 

 sessile* very spreading or recurved, l|-3 lin. long and as much 

 in breadth, broadly rounded or slightly notched at the apex, 

 fleshy 5 glabrous ; flowering-eyes 1 1"2| lin. above the spine- 

 pairs, enclosed in or free from the horny margins formed by the 

 spine-shields; flowers not seen, according to Pax the involucre is 

 solitary, very shortly pedunculate, about 2 lin. in diam., with 

 transverse "ovate" (elliptic-oblong 1) rugulose glands. 



TvALAHABi Region : Transvaal ; Low Yekl near Barberton, Evans (ex Pax), and 

 without precise locality, Bartt-Davij, 5657 ! 



Eastern Eegion : Natal ; Marian Hill, Landauer ! 



I liave not seen the type and describe from the specimens indicated as seen, 

 which, from the original description, I believe to belong to this species. It la 

 closely allied to E, trianfjidaris^ Desf. 



179, E. grandidens (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1825, 33); a tree, 



growing to 30 ft. higb, witb a trunk up to 3 ft. in diam. (? girth), with 

 the branches aj^d branchlets more or less clustered in whorls; mam 

 branches cylindric, with a crown of secondary branches at their 

 ends, naked below ; secondary branches and branchlets succulent, 

 spiny, leafless, |— | in. in diam., acutely 3-4-angled, rather deeply 

 sinuate-toothed, glabrous, green, deciduous ; spine-shields at the 

 apex of the teeth ^^—l^- in. apart, small, ovate, more or less acutely 

 pointed at each end, bearing a pair of divergent spines -|-3 hii- 

 long or sometimes nearly obsolete, and often a pair of minute 

 prickles above them, grey ; leaves rudimentary, minute, scale-like, 

 deltoid, soon deciduous; flowering-eyes in the axils of the spine- 

 shields and not embraced by them, producing 1 subsessile or very 

 shortly pedunculate 3-flowered cyme ; bracts minute, shorter than 

 the involucre, scale-like, very obtuse, glabrous; involucres 2--2 

 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, pale green, with 5 glands and 

 5 subquadrate fringed lobes ; glands contiguous, slightly deflexed 

 when, mature, f-1^ lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, 

 entire, rugose, yellowish-green ; capsule about \ in. in diam., ot 

 3 laterally compressed lobes as seen from above, glabrous, exsertea 

 on a curved pedicel 1-2| lin. beyond the involucre; styles free 

 nearly to the base, spreading, | lin. long, slender, very shortly 

 2-lobed at the apex; seeds subglobose, about \\ lin. in diam., 

 smooth, brown. Boiss. in DC, Prodr. xv, ii. 82 ; Goehel, Pflcf^' 

 zenhlol Scliilderunrj. I M, fig. 31 {not 41,/j/. 15); Benjer, Su^^^- 

 EuphorK, 47-48, fig. 12. E. arhoresceus, Salm-Dijch, and E. 

 magnldens, Haw. ex Salm-DycJcy Hort. Bych, 104-105, names onhj> 



South Africa: Avithout locality, cultivated specimens, Bowie ! 



Coast Regio-; : Ea^t London Div. ; Buffalo River Valley, 10-12 miles above 

 the mouth of the River, Wood ! First Creek, Queens Park, Rattray (photogi^-^P^ 

 only) ! ^ 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; Kentani, near Kobouqubo, Mm PegUr, Hl^ 

 partly! in woods near Culumba, 3[iss Pegler, 1518 ! Natal; Botanic Garden, 

 Durban, ^Yood, 9129! 



