E a2)hurhia^\ cxxri. EUPUORiiiACE^ (brown). 577 



toothed at the top ; glands J-| lin, in their greater diain., transverse, 

 somewhat kidney -shaped, entire. Young ovary glabrous ; styles J liii. 

 long, united at the base, very minutely bilobed at the apex. Cap^iule 

 und seeds not seen. 



Urile ^and. Somaliland: Golis Ranj^e, Drake-BrueJcman,'iQO\ 



146. E. Phillipsiae, N. E, Br. in Gard Chroii. 1903, xxxiii. oTO. 

 A succulent leafless spiny branching perennial about G in. high. Stems 

 and branches (excluding the spines) |-lj in. thick, *J-angled, glabrou.s, 

 briglit deep green, not glaucous; angles with slightly prominent 

 tubercles 1-2 lin. apart, bearing 2 diverging chestnut-brown spines 

 |-8 lin. long on horny chestnut-brown shields decurrent nearly or quite 

 to the next pair of spines below, but not forming a perfectly continuous 

 horny border. Involucres usually 2-4 in a subsessile cyme or cluster or 

 occasionally solitary in the axils of the tubercles, subsessile or shortly 

 pedunculate, f lin. in diam., obconic, glabrous, with 4-5 glands and 

 5 minute transversely rectangular fringed lobes; glands ^\ lin. in 

 their greater diam.., transversely oblong, entire, light orange-yellow. 

 Ovary much exserted on a recurved pedicel, glabrous; styles 1 lin. long, 

 united at the basal third, recurv.ed-spi-eading, bifid at the apex, with 

 the stigmas spirally coiled. Capsule and seeds not seen. — Berger, 

 8ukk. Euphorb. 87. 



Xile Icand. liritish Somaliland, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 



Described IroMi a living plant cnltiv^atfd in Cambridge Botanic Garden. 



147. C Dinteri, Beryer in Monatschr. fiirKakteeuk. xvi. 109. A 

 very spiny leafless succulent. The largest specimen seen is nbout 18 in. 

 high, but may have been taller or possibly a branch oil' a large plant, 

 with the main piece 3 in, in diam. at the base. Branches in superposed 

 whorls of 3-5, spreading-u[)curved, 1^-2 in. in diam., cylindric, wuth 7-8 

 more or less spirally twisted and often zigzag compressed angles having 

 continuous horny margins, which, together with the spines, are brown 

 on the young growth, soon becoming greyish-white, glabrous. Leaves 

 rudnuentary, scale-like, J-| lin. long, deltoid, acute, deciduous. .Spines 

 |--| in. long, in pairs \-\ in. apart, diverging and in dried specimens 

 intermingled. Flowering-eyes placed midway between the spine-pairs. 

 Flowers and fruit unknown. Seeds ^ in. long and i in. in diam., 

 ellipsoid, obtusely 3-angled, smootli, brownish-grey, from being densely 

 dusted with brown on a grey ground, with faint longitudinal lines. — 

 Berger, Sukk. Euphorb, H3 ; Dinter, Deutsch Siidw.-Alr. 12, 90. 



Xiower Guinea. German Sonth-West Africa, Dinter I 



The type sjiecimen is without locality or number, but Mr. Dinter at tbc place 

 <pioted mentions Sidem and Pforte in llereroland, and Inacbab in Grout Namacpm- 

 land (^Soutii Africa) as localities for tbe plant uiuler Dinter, 200. 



Described from the type specimen, kindly lent to Kew l)y Mr. Alwiu Berger, 

 wlio informs me that tbe plants figured ns E. virosa? in Kngler & Prantl, 

 PHanzenfam. iii. 5, 109 (jdate), and Kngl. rflanzenreich, iv. 3S, ill ii. 317 (plate), 

 liave been supposed to rcjircsent E. D inter i, but not only are they utterly dilTcrent 

 from it, but m;iy ])(>ssibly represent two very distinct species. The E. Dinteri 



