458 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN). [ Monadenium, 
a very short compact terminal cluster ; peduncles 4-1 in. long, recurved 
at the top, very minutely puberulous. Bract-cup 4—} in. long, and as 
much or more in diam., obliquely cup-shaped, notched nearly or quite to 
half-way down at the back, thin, glabrous, apparently whitish, reticu- 
lated with darker veins. Involucre } in. long, cup-like, open down the 
the front to below the middle, with an entire revolute margin, slightly 
overtopping the fringed inner lobes. Ovary exserted and reflexed, with 
rather broad toothed or entire wings along the angles, glabrous, with a 
perianth of 4—5 unequal lobes, the largest about 4 (in fruit 1) lin. long and 
3-tocthed at the apex; styles united to the middle or nearly free to the 
base, bifid, with thickened rounded spreading stigmas.— Lortia erubescens, 
Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1898, 30. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Arussi and Boran countries, Drake Brockman, 69! 
70! British Somaliland: Wagga Mountains, Mrs. Lort Phillips! and without 
precise locality, Drake Brockman, 483! 
14, M. coccineum, Pas in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 127 and 126, figs 
A-G'. Stems probably annual from a perennial rootstock, herbaceous, 
5-7 in. high in the type, but evidently broken from taller stems, 4-3 1D 
thick, simple or from injury branched, glabrous, Leaves unknown. Cymes 
2-4 at the top of the stems, 4—5 times forked, many-flowered, dense, form- 
ing acluster about 11 in. in diam., with peduncles }-2 in. long, glabrous 
in all parts. Bract-cup 2-2} lin. long, 2-keeled down the back, 2-lobed to 
about half-way down and the lobes somewhat auricled and overlapping 
behind, truncate at the top, thin, herbaceous, deep red or purple. 
Involucre 2-21 lin. long, urceolate, broadest below the middle, thence 
narrowed to the thickened revolute rim-like rugulose gland around the 
mouth, shortly exceeding the fringe of the inner lobes. Ovary with a 
small obtusely 3-lobed perianth at its base, glabrous, exserted on @ Te 
curved pedicel. Capsule about 2 lin. long, } lin. in diam., oblong, acutely 
3-angled, with two slight keels along each angle. Seeds immature, 
1} lin. long, oblong, truncate at each end, 4-angled, minutely tuberculate 
and with a small sessile yellow caruncle at the apex. 
Nile Land or Mozamb. Distr. East Africa, without precise locality, 
Fischer, 5211 « 
15. M. parviflorum, JV. /. Br. Stem of the specimen seen 9 os 
long, but evidently taller, 2 lin. thick at the base, herbaceous, probably 
annual from a tuberous rootstock, glabrous, leafless, with leaf-scars 
1-1} in. apart. Leaves not seen. Inflorescence of 1 terminal a» 
4 lateral cymes, racemosely arranged. Cymes compact, 3-13 ss 
diam., on peduncles 3-3 in. long, 4-5 times forked, many-flower ; 
glabrous in ail parts. Bract-cup 14-21 lin. long, 2-lobed to nearly half- 
way down, 2-keeled down the back, with the keels decurrent oD ie 
peduncles and sometimes somewhat frilled, herbaceous, green Or reddish, 
with darker-venation on the marginal part ; lobes about } lin. Jong; 
broadly ovate, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate. Involucre 
1} lin, long, urceolate or somewhat pear-shaped, broadest just eet 
the middle, thence narrowed to the thickened rim of the mouth, whic 
