498 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN). | Luphorbia. 
E, pilulifera, Linn., is an Indian form, which has been correctly referred to 
E. hypericifolia in the Flora of British India. Z. hirta, var. procumbens, gradually 
passes into the typical form, 
5. E. hypericifolia, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 454, Annual, erect, 
3-18 in. high, branching at the base or sometimes simple; stems simple 
or alternately branching, puberulous or glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
t-14 in. long including the very short petiole, 4-3 in. broad, oblong, 
linear-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic or ovate, subacute to rounded 
at the apex, oblique at the base, minutely toothed or rarely entire, 
puberulous or glabrous on one or both sides. Stipules variable. Cymes 
axillary, 4-} in. in diam., laxly few- to densely many-flowered. Peduncles 
j'o-} in. long, puberulous or glabrous, often with a pair of leaves at the 
apex. Bracts 4-2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate or entirely 
glabrous. Involucres about } lin. long, cup-shaped, puberulous or 
glabrous, with 4 appendaged glands and 5 deltoid-subulate ciliate lobes ; 
glands minute, orbicular or transversely elliptic ; appendages spreading, 
transversely elliptic, }-} lin. broad, entire, white. Capsule 1 lin, in 
diam., pubescent or glabrous; styles deeply bifid. Seeds ellipsoid, 4- 
angled, slightly transversely rugose, reddish-brown with a glaucous 
hue to whitish-grey.— Hook. Exot. Fl. i. t. 36; Boiss. in DC. Prodr, xv. 
ii, 23; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 144; Pax in Bolet. Soe. Brot. 
x. 156; De Wild. Miss. FE. Laurent, i. 142. £. pilulifera, Linn. Sp. 
Pl. ed. i. 454, in Ameen. Acad. iii. 115; and Herbarium, excl. reference 
to Burmann, not of other authors. Z. indica, Lam. Encyel. ii. 423; 
Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 22, incl. var, angustifolia, Boiss.; De Wild. 
& Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 52, ii. 56; Reliq. Dewevr. 202; De 
Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 279 and ii. 289, and Mi-s. K. 
Laurent, i. 142; Pax in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 157, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Belg. xxxvii. 107; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 646. Z. indica, var- 
pubescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 117. HF. decumbens, Forsk. Fi. 
Aigypt.-Arab. cxii.; Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 27; Hier? 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 940 (name only). <Anisophyllum indicum, 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 34. A. hypericifolium, Haw. Syn. _ 
Suce, 161; Klotzsch & Garcke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1860, 36. 
Upper Guinea. Upper Senegal, Zecard, 116! Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 
5011! 5040! Liberia: Cape Palmas, Ansell ! Grand Bassa, Dinklage, 1685! TeB° 
Baumann, 153! 220! Dahomey, Newton, 180! Southern Nigeria: Ogumde, Holland, 
267 ! Cameroons, Bates, 25! ~ 
Wile Land. Galabat: around Matamma, Schweinfurth, 874! 877! Steudner, 
556! Abyssinia: various localities, Schimper, 168! 907! 1632! Steudner, 551 
Roth, 126! Sudan, Schweinfurth, 593! 740! Ehrenberg, 57! Kotschy, ; 
Petherick! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 5! 309! Kordofan, Kotschy, 154! Pfund, 264! 489 
Somaliland, Ellenbeck, 987! 2281! 2315! Nuer Country, Murie ! Uganda: various 
localities, Murie! Speke § Grant, 602! Mildbraed, 1912! Bagshawe, 739° 
Ruwenzori, Wollaston! Lake Rudolf, Wellby! Brisish East Africa: various 
localities, Kassner, 279! Hildebrandt, 2694! Taylor! Gregory! 
Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island, Don! Lower Congo, Smith, 75! reer 
Buchholz ! Angola: various localities, Monteiro ! Gossweiler, 229 partly ! Welwitse® 
290! 291! 292 partly! 294! 295! Mechow, 20! San Salvador, Bittner, 268! 
