Monadenium.] CXXII, EUPHORBIACE® (BROWN). 457 
a A-shaped thickening (gland 2) at the base under the opening, equalling 
or slightly overtopping the fringed inner lobes. Ovary and capsule, 
smooth, not winged nor crested at the angles; perianth a slightly 
prominent obscurely 3-lobed rim; styles 1 lin. long, united for half 
their length or more, bifid at the tips. Seeds oblong, .4-angled, 
truncate at each end, with a stalked mushroom-like caruncle, white, 
granulate-tuberculate. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; between Kondowe and 
Karonga, Whyte ! 
12. M. major, V.Z. Br. Stems 6-16 in. high, 1—] in. thick, erect, 
annual from a perennial (probably tuberous) rootstock, herbaceous or 
subfleshy, glabrous. Leaves alternate, rigid, probably fleshy when 
alive, subsessile, 14-21 in. long, 3-12 in. broad, cuneately subspathulate, 
subrhomboid-obovate or suborbicular, somewhat abruptly rounded into 
a short acute point at the apex, broadly to narrowly wedge-shaped at 
the base, crisped at the margin, with a narrow wing-like keel along 
the midrib beneath, quite glabrous on both sides. Peduncles solitary 
in the axils of the uppermost leaves, 3-2 in. long, erect, glabrous, 
corymbosely arranged, bearing nodding cymes about 1 in. long and 
1-1} in. in diam., composed of 3 involucres and their bracts. Bract- 
cups about 3-3 in. long, 1-2 in. in diam., obliquely cup-shaped, divided 
to more than half-way down on the back, with 2 narrow wing-like 
keels, thin, glabrous, apparently whitish or pale pinkish, reticulated 
with rosy-purple veins. Involucre about } in. Jong and 3 in. in diam., 
not half as long as the bract-cup, cup-shaped, with a revolute margin, 
open in front to below the middle, slightly exceeding the fringed inner 
lobes, glabrous. Ovary exserted and reflexed, with a pair of broad 
toothed wings along each angle, glabrous, with a perianth of 8 distinct 
ovate acute lobes } lin. long, triangular and | lin. long in fruit; styles 
united for half their length, upcurved, scarcely bifid below the thickened 
globose minutely tubercular stigmas. Capsule 3 in. long, rather more 
than + in. in diam., 3-angled, with the broad wings folded closely 
against the sides, glabrous, whitish-brown. Seeds about } in. long, 
oblong, 4-angled, with a button-like caruncle, smooth, pale greyish- 
brown.—Lortia major, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 289. 
Nile Land. Southern Abyssinia: Mount Haquim, near Harar, Ei/enbeck, 
921! between Harar and Addis Abeba, Welby ! 
13. M. erubescens, V. HL. Pr. Stems 2-5 in. high, simple, erect, 
@nnual from a perennial rootstock, herbaceous or subfleshy, }-} in. thick 
at the base, minutely puberulous. Leaves alternate, subsessile, rigid, 
Probably fleshy when alive, 1-12 in. long, 3-1 in. broad, subspathulate- 
obovate or cuneate-obovate to elliptic or orbicular-ovate, shortly acute 
or cuspidate at the apex, and tapering from above or below the middle 
* narrow or broad cuneate base, wavy-crenulate or crisped at the 
margins, minutely puberulous on both sides, apparently dull purplish 
or brownish, with pale green veins above. Cymes solitary in the axils 
of the uppermost leaves, nodding, each with about 3 involucres, forming 
