496 CXXII, EUPHORBIACE (BROWN). | Zuphorbia. 
90! Baumann, 587! Lagos, Dawodu, 272! Southern Nigeria: Attah (Idda), Vogel, 
85! Stirling Hill, Ansell! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1489! Lokoja, 
Parsons, 54! Katagum district, Dalziel, 208! near the River Benue, Talbot! 
Cameroons, Passarge, 5! 54! 6! 
Nile Land. Kordofan: Mount Kohn, Kotschy, 242! Obeid, Pfund, 23! 93! 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; banks of the River 
Shire, just above Elephant Marsh, Scott! south-west Matabeleland, at Matlouei, 
Holub! 
This plant is said to be used as a remedy for “ scorpion-bite.” In Talbot’s speci- 
men from the River Benue, the gland-appendages are larger and much more 
conspicuous than in any other I have seen, being fully 4 lin. long and 2 lin. broad. 
4, E. hirta, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 454 and Amen. Acad. iii, 114. 
Annual, 4-16 in. high. Stems erect or decumbent at the base, simple 
or dichotomously branching, rather coarsely pilose with yellowish 
spreading hairs, usually densely at the upper part, thinly below, with 
an under pubescence of minute curved subadpressed hairs. Leaves 
opposite, 1-2 in, long, 3-3 in. broad, obliquely lanceolate or ovate or 
rhomboid-oblong, acute or subobtuse, on one side of the midrib cuneate 
at the base, on the other rounded, finely serrate, thinly adpressed, 
pubescent on both sides, more minutely so or sometimes glabrous 
above; petiole 4-14 lin. long. Stipules minute, subulate. Cymes 
axillary, pedunculate, $-4 in. in diam., globose or dichotomously divided 
into 2-3 globose heads; peduncle 1-6 lin. long, puberulous with minute 
curved hairs. Involucres densely crowded, male or bisexual, minute, 
about 4 lin. long, very shortly pedicellate, obconic or cup-like with 4 
glands and 5 deltoid acute fringed lobes; glands erect, slightly exceed- 
ing the lobes, linear viewed sideways, orbicular at the truncate apex, 
viewed from above, with a very minute rounded dorsal appendage just 
below the apex. Capsule globose-trigonous, 4 lin. in diam., thinly 
puberulous with minute adpressed hairs; styles short, deeply divided 
into 2 slender truncate arms, scarcely thickened at the apex. et 
about 4 lin. long, oblong, 4-angled, with slight transverse rugosities, 
light reddish.— Jacq. Collect. v. 160, t. 11, fig 1. 2. pilulifera, — 
Ie. iii. 5, t, 478, and Collect. ii. 361; Hook. Niger Fl. 499, excl. syD: 
Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 21; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1. 940; 
Pax in Bull, Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 107; in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 1565 ™ 
De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 52; in Engl. Jabrb. 
xxviii. 420, and xxxix. 631; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vil. APP- 
2, 318; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 56; and Reba 
Dewevr. 202; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga 80; Etudes Fl. Bas © 
Moyen Congo i, 280; and Miss. £. Laurent, i. 142; Stapf in gree 
Liberia, ii. 646, not of Linneus. 2. globulifera, Kunth in H. B. & 4 
Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. ii. 56. Tithymalus botryoides zeylanicus &e., ae 
Tithymalus botryoides erectus &c., Burm. Thes. Zeylan. 223, 224, %. 
104 and 105, fig. 1. ‘ 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Farmar, 7! Sierra Leone, Don! Vogel, tc 
Welwitsch, 288! Scott-Ellict, 3904 | 4591! 5845! 5851! Lagos, MacGregor, © 
Millen, 61! Rowland! Liberia, Vogel, 38! Whyte! Dinklage, 1652! Gold Saat 
Aburi, Brown, 386! Togo, Baumann, 220! Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar, Milne: 
