Monadeninm.] CXXH, EUPHORBIACE (BROWN), 453 
end, covered with small, very slightly prominent flat tubercles, white, 
with a dull ochreous caruncle. 
Mozamb. Distr. Ngamiland: Kwebe Hills; apparently rare, only one bed 
of it found, at the foot of Kwebe Peak, 3500 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 22! Tropical 
Transvaal : Zoutpansberg District; Tsama River, Matthewman, 5548 ! 
2, M. heteropodum, V. /. Pr. Stems arising from a thick 
rhizome, probably perennial, 8-10 in. high, 1 in. thick, not branched, 
cylindric, fleshy, prominently tuberculate; tubercles rhomboid-quad- 
rangular on the lower part and hexagonal on the upper part of the 
stem, usually bearing 2-3 very short or minute prickles around the 
base of the leaf or leaf-scar. Leaves fleshy, soon deciduous, about 1 in. 
long and as much in breadth, rhomboid-spathulate, obtusely rounded, 
and mucronulate or acute at the apex, narrowed into a short petiole, 
serrulate at the apical part. Flowers not described.—Euphorbia 
heteropoda, Pax in Engl. Jahrb, xxxiv. 374. 
Mozamb. Distr. (erman East Africa: Pangani (Unguu); lower slopes of 
Mbalu Mountain, Engler, 1472a. 
3. M. Schubei, V. /. 2. Stems perennial, about 18 in. high, 
Pie thide eoundric fleshy, prominently tuberculate, green ; tubercles 
about 5 lin. in diam., angular at the base, bearing 6 short stout radiating 
Spines at their apex. Leaves up to 1} in. long and 3 in. broad, spathu- 
late, acute, tapering to the base, crisped-crenulate at the margin. 
Flowers and fruit not described.—Luphorbia Schubei, Pax in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxxiy. 373. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Uhehe; by the River Lukosse, near 
Geme, Goetze, 485. ; 
4. M. Guentheri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 89, Stems perennial, 
6-10 in. high, probably about 1 in. thick when alive, }—} in. thick when 
dried, unbranched, fleshy, cylindric, tessellately tuberculate, with very 
prominent slightly recurved tubercles about } in. long in dried specimens 
from which the leaves arise, bearing 1-3 small spines around the base 
of the leaf or leaf-scar, with the middle spine deflexed, up to 1 lin, long 
and the lateral smaller or often obsolete, sometimes all are obsolete, 
glabrous. Leaves 33-8 lin. long, 13-2 lin, broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
entire, fleshy, with infolded or incurved margins when dried, deciduous, 
glabrous. Peduncles in the axils of the tubercles, about } in. long, 
bearing 1-2 involucres, glabrous. Bract-cup oblique, 3-4 lin, long, 
Shortly and acutely 2-lobed at the apex, open in front, with the margins 
Not nearly meeting, 2-keeled down the back, glabrous, apparently green. 
Involucre about 24 lin. long, open to below the middle in front, scarcely 
narrowing to the truncate revolute rim-like top or gland, glabrous. 
Capsule 23 lin. long, acutely 3-angled, with 2 narrow toothed wings 
along each angle, glabrous, Seeds 14-1} lin. long, 4-angled, truncate 
at each end, smooth, grey. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: steppe near Make Tan, not far from Buru 
ountain, 3200 ft., Uhlig, 48! 
