Euphorbia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (BROWN). 499 
South Central. Belgian Congo: various localities, Kdasner, 2524! Pogge, 
124! 126! Sapin, Gillet, Laurent ex De Wildeman. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Schmidt, 46! German East Africa: various 
localities, Uhlig, 250! Holst, 527! Busse, 2371! Stuhlmann, 308! 841! 6445! 
6541! 6715! 6855! 6950! 7171! 7212! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, 
Peters, 57! Cavalho! ower Zambesi at Sena, Kirk! British Central Africa: 
Nyasaland: various localities, Whyte! Scott-Elliot, 8427! Buchanan, 392! 1105! 
Widely distributed throughout all warm regions. 
A very variable plant. The type specimen in the Linnean Herbarium is more 
tomentose on the young parts of the stem, involucres, and capsule than in any other 
that I have seen. 
6. E. glaucophylla, Poir. Hncycl. Suppl. ii. 613. Annual or peren- 
nial. Stems usually several or many, 4-1} ft. long, slender, prostrate, 
sometimes somewhat woody at the base, glabrous. Leaves opposite, very 
shortly petiolate, 1-3 in. long, 14-5 lin. broad, oblong, lanceolate, elliptic- 
oblong or somewhat obovate-oblong, rounded and often apiculate at the 
apex, unequally subcordate at the base, entire or obscurely toothed, firm 
in texture, 3-5-nerved at the base, glabrous, glaucous (not always in dried 
Specimens). Stipules on both sides of the stem united, broadly ovate, 
fringed. Involucres in small pedunculate axillary leafy cymes or solitary 
and axillary or on short axillary branchlets, shortly pedunculate, 3-% lin. in 
diam., campanulate, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 quadrate fringed lobes; 
glands minute, distant, } lin. or less in their greater diam., transversely 
elliptic, bordered by a very narrow white entire petaloid appendage. 
Capsule glabrous. Seeds about } lin. in diam., subglobose, slightly 
4-angled, pointed at one end, transversely wrinkled.—Boiss. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 14. Z. trinervia, Schum, in Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 
Pl, 253; Benth, in Hook. Niger Fl. 498; Baill. Adans. i. 60; Boiss. 
1 DC. Prodr, xv, ii. 15 ; Williams in Bull. Herb. Boiss., sér. 2, vii. 203, 
£, decumbens, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 940, partly. Anisophyllum 
Haucophyllum, Klotasch & Gareke in Abh, Akad. Berlin, 1860, 35. 
56 Upper Guinea. By the sea-shore: Senegal, Sieber, 18! Persottet ! Roussillon, 
» Dupuis ex Poiret, Gambia, Don! Boteler. Liberia: Grand Bassa, Vogel, 54! 
Pinklage, 2094! Gold Coast, Thonning ! Krause, 98! Southern Nigeria: shore of 
tm River, Vogel, 10! Cameroons, Ledermann, 148! Winkler, 769! Bates, 25! 
Lower Guinea, By the sea-shore: Loango; near Chinchosho, Soyauz, 32! 
ngola, Curror ! Loanda, Welwitsch, 292 partly! 293! 
sire: type specimen of E. trinervia, Thonning, is identical with Vogel, 10, from 
Words nnd Althouzh very different in appearance this is difficult to distinguish in 
om E. hypericifolia, L. 
si 7. E, Parva, V. #. Br. A small annual 13-2 in. high. Stem 
tmple or forking at the base into 2-3 branches, slender, erect, pilose. 
‘oie ves Opposite, shortly petiolate, }-3 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, lanceolate, 
te, very oblique at the base, thinly sprinkled with long white hairs 
eath and glabrous or with a few hairs above, thinly ciliate, green 
Tt dark purple beneath. Stipules all free, subulate, longer than the 
Petioles.  Involucres solitary, axillary, about % lin. long and }- lin. in 
_ cluding the appendages, somewhat ellipsoid, on peduncles about 
