d00 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE (BROWN). | Huphorbia. 
2 lin. long, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 minute ciliate lobes; glands 
minute, transversely elliptic-oblong, 2 of them with oblique petaloid 
white appendages } lin. long, the other 2 without appendages. Ovary 
exserted on a recurved pedicel, thinly pilose ; styles 4 lin. long, united 
at the base, bifid at the apex. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla Plateau, Desindt, 1046! 
8, E. Kerstingii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 285. Perennial, 
probably with a woody or tuberous rootstock. Stem or stems branching 
at the base, apparently about 2-4 in. long, ? prostrate, puberulous all 
round. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, subcoriaceous, 5-9 lin. 
long, 1-4 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, cordate 
or subcordate and slightly unequal at the base, entire or very minutely 
toothed at the apex, glabrous on both sides, sometimes purple beneath. 
Stipules of 2 or more filiform segments. Peduncles solitary, axillary, 
1-3 lin. long, bearing 1 involucre, glabrous. Involucre 1-1} lin. in 
diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 ovate acute ciliate lobes ; 
glands $ lin, in their greater diam., transverse, narrowly oblong, bordered 
with a petal-like entire white appendage }-1 lin. broad along their outer 
margin. Ovary ultimately exserted and curved to one side, glabrous; 
styles about } lin. long, free and spreading from their base, rather stout, 
bifid at the apex. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: savannah at Trogode, 1000 ft., Kersting, 35! Kete 
Kratye, Zech, 45! 
9..E. zambesiana, Benth. in look. Ic. Pl. t. 1305. Rootstock 
perennial, woody, descending deeply, producing numerous simple or 
sparingly branched stems, sometimes only 1-2} in. high in rather dense 
erect clusters (these are rather starved branches, only developed after 
the annual burnings), sometimes 2-18 in. long and more or less spreading 
on the ground (these are the more normal stems of the plant, and their 
charred remains are often present among the short clustered erect stems), 
glabrous or puberulous all round in the same gathering. Leaves opposite, 
shortly petiolate, 1-3 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear-oblong, lanceolate oF 
oblong-lanceolate, or the lower ovate or cordate or sometimes scale-like, 
acute"or obtuse, subequal or unequal and rounded or subcordate at the 
base, entire, glabrous on both sides. Stipules variable. Peduneles 
solitary, axillary, very variable in length, on the more leafy stems usually 
all short and 1-6 lin. long, on the erect clustered stems 4-2 in. long, wit 
or without a pair of scale-leaves below the middle, glabrous. Involucre 
$-1} lin. long and as much in diam. (excluding the gland-appendag); 
cup-shaped, glabrous, often purple, with 4 conspicuously appendag e 
glands and 5 deltoid acute fringed lobes; glands transversely oblong 
or somewhat kidney-shaped, dark red-brown or purplish-browD, he 
appendages petal-like up to 1} lin. long, and as much in breadth, bu 
sometimes less than half as long as broad, somewhat semlcre 
crescent-shaped, cuneately subquadrate to suborbicular, entire oF obtusely 
2-4-crenate or lobed, white or rose. Capsule 1} lin. in diam., exse i 
on a recurved pedicel, glabrous or minutely puberulous ; styles ee 
