502 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN). | Huphorbia, 
hairs on all parts including the involucre and capsule. Stems several 
from the crown of the root, erect, decumbent or prostrate, usually 
branched, Leaves opposite, usually 24-9 lin. long, 1-5 lin. broad, very 
rarely larger, oblong or elliptic-oblong, rarely cuneate-oblong or some- 
what rhomboid-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, very unequal at 
the semicordate base, serrulate. Stipules minute or inconspicuous 
(see note). Involucres usually crowded along the short densely leafy 
axillary flowering branchlets, rarely solitary and axillary on the main 
branches, 3-} lin. long, cup-shaped, with 4 conspicuously appendaged 
glands and 5 subulate or deltoid ciliate lobes; glands minute, trans- 
versely oblong, appendage petal-like, }-4 lin. long, 4-% lin. broad, trans- 
versely oblong to broadly cuneate, toothed or rarely entire, white. 
Capsule 1 lin. in diam. Seeds 3-3 lin. long, ovoid, acute, 4-angled, 
slightly pitted-rugose, whitish_—Boiss. Ic. Euphorb. 12, t. 11, and in 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 36; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 
315. LF. thymifolias Forsk. Fl. Egypt.-Arab. 94, not of Linneus. 
E. tomentosa, Pers. Syn. Pl. ii. 13. E. hirta, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 793, 
partly, not of Linnzeus. Anisophyllum scordifolium, Klotzsch & Garcke 
in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1860, 35; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 35; 
Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 1892, 359. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Sieber, 17! Roger, 29! Heudelot! Perrottet ! 
Lelievre, 53! Senegambia, Heudelot, 474! Brunner, 114! 24! Sierra Leone: Ninia, 
Talla Hills, Scott-Elliot, 4993! Northern Nigeria: near Lake Chad, at Kuka, 
Vogel,6! at Bure, Elliott, 109! 
Wile Land. Nubia: near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 879! Soturba Mountains, 
Schweinfurth, 878! 880! coast region, Bent ! Red Sea Province, Crossland, 1516! 
Eritrea : various localities, Schweinfurth & Riva, 12, 203! 349, 350, 1616, Hilde- 
brandt, 735! Steudner ! Ehrenberg. Abyssinia: Airnri, Stecker, 33 partly! Jaja, 
Schimper, ex Schweinfurth. Somaliland: Zeila, Ellenbeck, 130! Sennar, Kotschy, 
291! Kordofan, Pfund, 368! 369! 371! Kotschy, 1! Steudner, 530! Broun, 892! 
1243! Darfur, Purdy, 14! White Nile: near Turra, Schweinfurth, 958 ' Meshra el 
Zeraf, Broun, 1590! 
The specimens from Meshra el Zeraf (Brownz, 1590) in appearance are totally 
unlike any of the others quoted, having leaves 3-14 in. long and 4-} in. broad, 
obliquely rhomboid-oblong, somewhat thinly pubescent on both sides, ‘The stems are 
tomentose only on the terminal internodes, thinly pubescent below, each pair of 
stipules is united into one broad-toothed body and quite conspicuous, and the flowers 
are solitary in the axils of the main stems, without any short flowering branches. But 
there is no structural difference, and I believe them to be individuals grown 1 rich 
soil, which have developed a luxuriant foliage at the expense of the flowers. 
11. E. granulata, Forsk. Fl. Hgypt.-Avrab. cxii. and 94. Annual. 
Stems spreading on the ground, 1-8 in. long, simple or with alternate 
branches, sometimes thickened or with ring-like marks at the nodes, 
thinly or thickly pubescent all round with very spreading straight ome 
Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, 1-5 lin. long, 4-3 lin. broad, 
oblong or obovate-oblong, obtusely rounded at the apex, very peng 8 
at the base, entire, puberulous on both sides (sometimes thinly) wit 
adpressed or spreading and usually minute hairs. Stipules subulate, 
ciliate, sometimes minute and inconspicuous. Inflorescence of Very 
