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[Habitat acc. to label:] Gravelly, eroding soil at foot of mt. Rainfall perhaps between 300 and 400mm with maxima in april and probably november. In 1952 the main rains started on 27th March. Rock red granite; soils: (a) a red sandy loam on well drained soils, (b) pale sandy soil near watercourses, (c) a yellowish brown powdery soil on flats, (d) 'black cotton soil', glutinous, cracking, in areas of impeded drainae. A rich Commiphora-Acacia scrub with scattered larger trees suchas Delonix, Terminalia, Gyrocarpus. [Description acc. to label:] Spines 1 big, and 2 small, longit. green and cream, stipes longitudinally on stem. Flowers reddish, stems short, radiating in all directions from a central spherical mass.