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Euphorbia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (BROWN). 503 
short leafy raceme-like branchlets in the axils of and sometimes not 
longer than the leaves of the primary branches, with one involucre to 
each pair of reduced leaves. Peduncles -} lin. long. Involucre }-2 
lin. long, campanulate or somewhat funnel-shaped, green, with 5 paler 
stripes and together with the peduncle puberulous with minute curved 
hairs, with 4 or occasionally 3 glands and 5 deltoid ciliate lobes ; glands 
minute, transverse, narrowly half surrounded by an entire or slightly 
2-3-lobed petal-like appendage. Capsule 2-3 lin. in diam., puberulous 
all over with minute adpressed or spreading hairs. Seeds about $ lin. 
long, 4-angled, slightly transversely rugose or scrobiculate.—Vahl, 
Symb, ii. 54; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 33; Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma, vi. 186; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 314. 
EL. Forskalii, Gay in Webb & Berth. Phyt. Canar, iii. iii. 240, partly. 
#. prostrata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 942, partly, not of Ait. 
L. fragilis, Decne in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2me sér. ii, 241. Anisophyllum 
granulatum, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 34. A. Forskalei, Klotzsch 
& Gareke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1859, 25, partly. 
Wile Land. Perim Island, Farmer! Dalak Isles, Steudner, 554! Nubia, 
Kotschy, 364! Bent ! Petherick ! Ehrenberg, 16! Schweinfurth, 4544! Abyssinia, 
Stecker, 83 partly! Rohifs! Galabat, Schweinfurth, 896! Cordofan, Kotschy, 17! 
69 partly! 470! Darfur, Pfund, 501! Somaliland, Hildebrandt, 868! Miss Cole! 
Riva, 288, 405. Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda district, Welwitsch, 647 partly! between 
the River Geraul and Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 648 partly ! 
Also in Egypt and Arabia. A specimen collected by Bolle in the Cape Verde 
Islands is probably a form of this species. 
very thinly pubescent with spreading hairs all over or along the angles only or 
glabrous. Otherwise as in the type—Z. Forskalii, var. glabrata, Gay in Webb & 
Wile Bana. Nubia, § chweinfurth, 314! Bent! Cordofan, Kotschy, 9*! 69 
partly ! 443! Steudner, 528! Pfund, 500! Eritrea, Schweinfurth, 104, 1724. 
Somaliland, Urs. Lort Phillips! 
Wat. dente ta, N. E. Br. Stems rather slender, 2-7 in. long. Leaves toothed, at 
t at the apex, glabrous on both sides or with a few hairs beneath. Involucre 
glabrous, Capsule thinly pubescent with spreading hairs all over or only along the 
atgkes. Otherwise as in var. glabrata, but apparently rather more slender in habit. 
eo Wile nana. Abyssinia: Harar, Ellenbeck, 724! British East Africa: near 
ke Rudolph, Wellby ! 
The variety dentate may prove to be a distinct species when better known, but I 
tan find no important character besides the toothing of the leaves to separate it. 
: Sragilis, Decne, appears to be a perennial form, with the basal part of the stems 
much stouter and more woody than in Z. granulata, but otherwise there secms to be 
00 distinction. 
leag 
thaw. 2S, glanduligera, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 142. Stems slender, 
with alternate distant subparallel slightly curved branches, 1n the type 
