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VII—TWO LITTLE-KNOWN SOUTH AFRICAN 
EUPHORBIAS. 
N. E. Brown. 
(With Plate.) 
sete and in the outside of the involucre being puberulous. 
t 
3-24 in. long, bearing a whorl 
of 5 large bracts at the apex, forming a saucer-shaped cup 
2-1 in. in diameter surrounding the involucre. F 
The photograph, here reproduced, represents the plant abou 
two-thirds the natural size, and was sent to ew by M 
Drége of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, of which locality 
L 
the plant is a native. 
species was described over 50 years ago, it has hitherto been very 
ginal description is very unsatis- 
factory, having been made from mere scraps of branches collected 
by J. F. Drége, and the statement in De Candolle’s Prodromus, 
E. tid We of Berger’s 
gona, linn., and quite different from the true EL. enopla, Boiss.; , 
Ww. 
b 
+ in. thick and 6—7-angled. 
are modified peduncles, varying from 
It is a native of South Africa, growing on the Witte Poort 
Mountains, in Willowmore Division, and. on the Karoo, neat 
din Jansenville Division. 
VIII.—CLEMATIS MEYENIANA. 
sy T. A. Spracur. 
The type specimens of Clematis Mf eyeniana were gathered by 
Meyen on the north-west coast of Lantao Island, near Hongkong, * 
* Meyen, Reise um die Erde, vol. ii. pp. 189, 292, 
