558 CXXII. EUrnORBIACE.-E (rROWn). [EirphoO'hia. 



terminal, with a pair of scale-like bracts at their base, closely >essile, 

 1^ lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped, glabrous outside, hairy within in 

 front of the glands, with 5 glands and 5 oblong slightly ciliate or toothed 

 lobes; glands distant, J lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, 

 •entire. Ovary and capsule not seen. — L\ decussately Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 944, not of E. Meyer. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola: Mossame.les ; Serra do MoiitcsXegros, Welicihch 

 632! 



107. E. spartaria, X. E. Br. A succulent leafless shrub o ft. high, 

 dichotomously or trichotomously branched. Stems or main branches 

 \-\ in. thick, with lateral suberect branches often 1 ft. or more long and 

 4-1 lin. thick, flowering branchlets ^- j lin. thick, all articulated at their 

 origin, terete, ending in 2-4 times forked cymes, glabrous^. Leaves 

 opposite, rudimentary, only seen at the base of the involucres, soon 

 deciduous, 1-1 J lin. long, J-^ lin. broad, spathulate, with the dilated 

 part transversely rhomboid to suborbicular, very obtuse, often apiculate, 

 entire or minutely denticulate, fleshy. Involucre solitary and terminal 

 on each cyme-branch, 1-1 J lin. in diam., that of the male plant |-1 lin. 

 deep, scarcely narrowed to the base, cup-shaped ; of the female plant 

 r- lin. deep, distinctly narrowed to the base, funnel-shaped, glabrous 

 outside, pubescent within, with 5 glands and 5 minute oblong or trans- 

 verse ciliate lobes; glands J-r lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 oblonsf, entire. Ovary nearly exserted from the involucre, erect, lUangled, 

 glabrous ; styles J lin. long, stout, united for half their length and rising 

 -V lin. clear above the ovary before spreading, bifid at the apex. Capsule 

 and seeds not seen. 



Iiower Guinea. Gcninui Soutli-west Africa: HofFmun<; F'arm near \\'iiulboel{, 

 Tearson, 7560 ! Dinter, 983 ! in tiie bed of a river near Windlioek, Dinter, 205 ! 



This is closoly allieil to E. epJiedroide.s, E. Meyer, of South Af licii, and evidently 

 tlic tro])ical reiiresentative of it, but tbe ni;iin br;inclies seem to be longer, straighter 

 and ratlier stouter, giving tlic plant a different appearance and the styles are not free 

 and spreading directly from their base as they do in E. ephedruides. 



108. E. longetuberculosa, Ilochst. ex Boiss.in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 85. Perennial, (i-lO in. high. Primary stem rising 2-3 in. above 

 the ground, erect, clavate, |-1 in. thick at the top, gradually tapering 

 down to the root, fleshy, covered with cylindric-conical tubercles 1-2 J lin. 

 long, leafless, glabrous, producing around the top .several more slender 

 fleshy tuberculate branches |-2^ in. long and 2-'^ lin. thick, terminating 

 in 1-2 flowering branches or an umbel of o smooth and more herbaceous 

 once to four times forked cymes 2i-G in. long, glabrous. Leaves on the 

 fleshy branches alternate, |-2 J in. long including the 2-G lin. -long slender 

 petiole, 3-7 lin. broad, elliptic, obloijg-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, apiculate, cuneately narrowed into the petiole ; those on the 

 flowering branches opposite, sessile, i-ll in. long, 2-G lin. broad, 

 elliptic or ovate- lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute orobtuse, apiculate, 

 rounded at the base, all glabrous on both sides. Stipules none. 

 Involucres very shortly pedunculate or subsessile, solitary in the forks 



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