Euphorbia. | CXXI. EUPHORBIACEE (BROW)). 495 
pubescent with very fine and rather long spreading hairs on both sides, 
entire, often marked with a red blotch. Stipules all free, subulate. 
Inflorescence of small dense axillary clusters arranged along one (the 
upper) side of the stem, Peduncles }—} lin. long. Involucre (excluding 
the appendages) 3-1 lin. in diam., cup-like, tomentose, with 4 con- 
spicuously appendaged glands and 5 subulate woolly lobes; glands 
minute, transverse; appendages petal-like, white, two of them more 
than twice as large as the other two, about 4-1} lin. long and }-1 lin. 
broad, obliquely oblong, cuneate-obovate or cuneate-oblong, entire or 
crenulate on the margin, the smaller pair narrowly tranversely oblong 
+0 cuneate-subquadrate, about 3-crenulate, sometimes obsolete. Capsule 
about 1 lin. in diam., tomentose; styles 4 lin. long, shortly bifid, with 
slender stigmas. Seeds 2-2 lin. long, ovoid, subacute, 4-angled, rather 
deeply transversely rugose, whitish or reddish-brown.—Boiss. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii, 49, and Ic. Euphorb. 13, t. 20. Anisophyllum tettense, 
Klotzsch & Garcke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1860, 34. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; near Tete, Peters ! 
Kirk ! opposite Sena, Kirk! Boruma, Menyharth, 522! British Central Africa: 
Nyasaland ; beyond Murchison Falls, Meller ! Lake Nyassa, Simons! and without 
precise locality, Buchanan, 174! 
The two large wing-like gland-appendages are directed over the back of the 
“ecurved ovary or capsule and always towards the apex of the branch, in such a way 
*8 to produce an extraordinary resemblance to a white-winged fly. 
3. E. convolvuloides, Hochst. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 46. 
Annual. Stems one to several, erect, branching, 6-20 in. high, 
‘omentose, often with rather minute curved and somewhat adpressed 
and interwoven hairs or occasionally (in possibly hybrid forms) with 
longer and more spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, $-1} in. long, 3-3 
in, broad, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or rarely ovate, acute, 
very unequal at the semicordate base, minutely serrulate or subentire, 
‘“inutely subtomentose to nearly or quite glabrous on one or both sides. 
Stipules all free and subulate or lanceolate-subulate or the pair on one 
Side of the stem united. Flowering branchlets short, with the involucres 
densely clustered along them among the small leaves and bracts. 
nvolucres subsessile or very shortly pedunculate, 3-? lin. long and in 
» Obconic-campanulate, densely covered with white or tawny 
jomentum, with 4 appendaged or unappendaged glands and 5 deltoid- 
Prcncmetay densely ciliate lobes ; glands minute, transverse, their appen- 
ages, when present, about equal on all 4 glands, often very minute, but 
‘Sometimes up to $ lin. long and 2 lin. broad, transversely oblong, entire 
; Unequally crenulate. Capsule about 1 lin. in diam., very obtusely 
ie densely tomentose; styles 1-} lin. long. Seeds 3- lin. long, 
ae with about 3 transverse ridges on the faces, whitish or pale 
Ye —Boiss. Ic. Euphorb. 12,t.15. #. priewriana, Baill. Adansonia, 
Be » Anisophyllum convolvuloides, Klotzsch & Garcke in Abh. Akad. 
tlin, 1860, 34, 
ex oe Guinea. Senegal: Upper Senegal, Lecard, 136! near Barni, Leprieur, 
aillon, Dagombi; Salaga, on the upper Volta, Krause,13! Togo, Zech, 41! 
