Euphorbia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN). 497 
Emi lle, Dodd, 410! Cameroons, Braun, 11! Bates, 4! Diestel,10! Preuss, 1214! 
Staudi, 909! Fernando Po, Mann, 237! Vogel, 2 !. 
Nile Land. Eritrea, Schweinfurth & Riva, 497, 597! East Shoa, Rosen ex 
Paz. Soudan, Schweinfurth,778! Broun! British East Africa: various localities, 
Wakefield! Kéissner,73! Thomas, 174! Taylor! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Doz! Lower Congo: various locali- 
ties, Dewevre, 16, Dupuis, 13! Moller, Quintas, Gillet, 2642 bis. Angola, Dekindt, 
274! Wellinann, 1593! Gossweiler, 229 partly! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: various localities, Hens, C,114! Descamps, 
Laurent, Demeuse, Verdick, 299, Dewévre, 1117A, 
Mozamb. Distr. Pemba Island, Bojer! Zanzibar, Bojer! Last! Schmidt, 
47! Stuhlmann, 749! German East Africa: various localities, Stuhlmann, 6026! 
6203 ! 6482! 7248! 7269! 7280! 7445! 9294! Goetze, 362! Busse, 2277! 2403 ! 
2761! Merker, 604! Engler, 2107! Zimmermann, 956! Holst, 593! 2069! Portu- 
guese East Africa: various localities, Scott! Stewart! Kirk! Stuhlmann, 673! 
Cavalho! Peters, 55 partly! British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Whyte! McClounie, 
85! 139! Buchanan, 62! 454! 1196! 
Var. procumbens, N. E. Br. Annual or perennial, stems procumbent and often 
producing erect shoots or decumbent at the base.—E. ptlulifera, var. procumbens, 
Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 21. E. obliterata, Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 190 ; 
Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 872. Z. capitata, Lam. Encycl. ii. 422; Descourtilz, 
Fi. Ant. iii. 344, t. 227. B. ophthalmica, Pers. Syn. Pl. ii. 13. EH. procumbens, 
DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 111. J#. verticillata, Vell. Fl. Flum. v. t. 16, not of Poir. 
E. nodiflora, Steud, Nom, ed. 2, i. 613. 
Upper Guinea. Togo, Baumann, 220 partly! Zech, 36! Bittner, 87! 91! 
Northern Nigeria: Lokoja, Parsons, 41! Katagum district, Dalziel, 414! Cameroons, 
Dinklage, 165 ! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: near Mazeras, Kassner, 276! Lake Albert 
Edward, Mildbraed, 1913! 
Lower Guinea. Annabon Island, Burton! Island of St. Thomas, Moller, 
182! Congo, Biittner, 267! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Peters, 55 partly! Portuguese East Africa: Beira» 
igler, 311! Hildebrandt, 1154! German East Africa, Braun, 660! Stuhlmann, 
6378! British Central Africa: Likoma Islands in Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 43! Blan- 
tyre, Buchanan in Herb. Wood, 6929! 
Widely distributed throughout the tropics and in some subtropical areas. I 
pt the name EZ. hirta, Linn., for this species instead of E. pilulifera because, 
des being printed on a previous page to the latter, it is most certainly the plant 
described by Linnejus and preserved in his herbarium under that name, whilst, 
although this plant is accepted by Boissier and others as being FZ. pilulifera, Linn., 
it is clear that that acceptation has been based upon the figure in Burmann’s Thes. 
Zeylan. 224, t. 105, fig. 1, which Linneus has incorrectly referred to as a synonym 
B. pilulifera, or it is certain that Linneus considered E. hirta and £, piluli- 
Sera to be distinct species. In his herbarium are two specimens, named in his own 
handwriting “18hirta” and “19 pilulifera”’ Comparing these specimens with the 
iptions, it is evident that the latter were made from the former. Linnwus 
ceneribes E. hirta as having pointed leaves and pilose stems, but omits these 
ean from the description of Z. pilulifera, implying (as was his custom) that 
Ses not possess them. This distinction completely accords with the specimens of 
by Li Species in the Linnean herbarium. The figure of Burmann, however, referred 
wai to Z. pilulifera disagrees with this distinction, having hairy stems and 
eaves,and merely represents another form of E. hirta. The type specimen of 
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