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about 15 mm. Leaves are present during the rainy season and about 
^ inch long. The cyathia stand erect on peduncles which are 10 to 
20 mm. long, either solitary or 2 to 3 together on the same branch. 
Involucre greenish red, the segments white, fimbriate; anthers dark red. 
The glands are dark green, shaped like the moon when about one-third 
full, the two horns projecting outwards. Capsule the size of a pea. 
Branchlets about 1-2 inches long. 
In clayey soil on the Nieuwveld near Beaufort West. Altitude 
1,300 m. Flowering in November. Marloth, No. 4692. (Figs. 2 and 3.) 
EuPHOKBiA FUSCA, spec. nov. (Sect. Medusea.) 
Planta acaulis habitu E. Caput Medusce, ramis brevibus digiti-formibus, 
aphyllis. Cyathia breviter stipitata, pedunculis non-persistentibus. 
Involucri segmenta lato-cuneata, fimbriata, fusca. Glanduli fusci, 
4-5 dentati, dentibus linearibus, albidis, rariter apice bipartitis. 
In habit just like E. Caput Medusce with an almost globular central 
caudex, from which the short, finger-like branches radiate. Easily dis- 
tinguished from E. Caput Medusce by the smaller size and brown colour of 
the glands and involucre, from E. anacantha by the stipitate flowers, and 
from E. crassipes by the non-persistent peduncles. 
Kimberley, Steynsburg, Britstown. Altitude 1,200-1,300 mm. 
Flowering November. Marloth, No. 4682. 
COMPOSITE. 
Othonna clavifolia, spec. nov. (Sect. Carnosce.) 
Caulis brevis, crassus, simplex, napiformis vel parum ramosus, ramis 
brevissimis. Folia pauca, carnosa, ovoidea vel clavata, apicibus ramorum 
aggregata. Pedunculi ex apicibus ramorum, simplices. Capitula radiata. 
Achenia canescentia. 
The short caudex is embedded in the ground or between the gravel of 
fissures in the rocks 1-2 inches high, with or without a few stout, short 
branches. The leaves are alternate, very fleshy, either shortly club- 
shaped, 10-15 mm. long and half as wide, or, as in cultivated specimens, 
more elongate, up to 30 mm. long and 6-8 mm. in diam. in the upper part. 
Eeddish glaucous on the wild plants, often the interior quite red as well. 
Scapes one-flowered, 1-2 inches long; involucre of 6-8 free, narrow- 
oblong, mucronate bracts, brownish green with white edges ; no calycle. 
Eays yellow, twice as long as the involucre. Achenes oblong, curved, 
narrowed at both ends, canescent from closely appressed, short hairs. 
