Notes

The above is the original description of this plant, which was collected in South Africa at Lobatsi, in Bechuanaland (Marloth, 3413), and which I have not seen. But a specimen collected in Rhodesia and named by Pax as being a variety of E. griseola is as follows: Plant up to 3 ft. high. Branches (dried) 1/3 in. in diam., 5-angled; angles acute, toothed, with continuous horny grey margins and concave faces between them; teeth 2 1/2–5 lin. apart. Leaves rudimentary, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, ovate, acute, recurved, soon deciduous. Spines 3–4 lin. long, in pairs, widely diverging, grey, often blackish at the tips, with or without a pair of very minute or rudimentary prickles at their base. Cymes on peduncles 1/2– 3/4 lin. long and 1/2 lin. thick, with 3 involucres. Bracts scale-like, oblong, rounded, minutely toothed. Involucre 1 1/2 lin. in diam., somewhat funnel-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 erect subquadrate fringed lobes overtopping them; glands contiguous, 2/3– 3/4 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, entire. Ovary and capsule net seen.

Notes

The above is the original description of this plant, which was collected in South Africa at Lobatsi, in Bechuanaland (Marloth, 3413), and which I have not seen. But a specimen collected in Rhodesia and named by Pax as being a variety of E. griseola is as follows: Plant up to 3 ft. high. Branches (dried) 1/3 in. in diam., 5-angled; angles acute, toothed, with continuous horny grey margins and concave faces between them; teeth 2 1/2–5 lin. apart. Leaves rudimentary, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, ovate, acute, recurved, soon deciduous. Spines 3–4 lin. long, in pairs, widely diverging, grey, often blackish at the tips, with or without a pair of very minute or rudimentary prickles at their base. Cymes on peduncles 1/2– 3/4 lin. long and 1/2 lin. thick, with 3 involucres. Bracts scale-like, oblong, rounded, minutely toothed. Involucre 1 1/2 lin. in diam., somewhat funnel-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 erect subquadrate fringed lobes overtopping them; glands contiguous, 2/3– 3/4 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, entire. Ovary and capsule net seen.

Notes

The above is the original description of this plant, which was collected in South Africa at Lobatsi, in Bechuanaland (Marloth, 3413), and which I have not seen. But a specimen collected in Rhodesia and named by Pax as being a variety of E. griseola is as follows: Plant up to 3 ft. high. Branches (dried) 1/3 in. in diam., 5-angled; angles acute, toothed, with continuous horny grey margins and concave faces between them; teeth 2 1/2–5 lin. apart. Leaves rudimentary, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, ovate, acute, recurved, soon deciduous. Spines 3–4 lin. long, in pairs, widely diverging, grey, often blackish at the tips, with or without a pair of very minute or rudimentary prickles at their base. Cymes on peduncles 1/2– 3/4 lin. long and 1/2 lin. thick, with 3 involucres. Bracts scale-like, oblong, rounded, minutely toothed. Involucre 1 1/2 lin. in diam., somewhat funnel-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 erect subquadrate fringed lobes overtopping them; glands contiguous, 2/3– 3/4 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, entire. Ovary and capsule net seen.