ae = 
504 CXXII, EUPHORBIACE& (BROWN). | Lapnorbia. 
specimen 6-8 in. long and 4—4 lin. thick, glabrous, slightly thickened 
at the nodes with about 4 pairs of leaves at the tips, otherwise leafless. 
Leaves opposite, very small, petiolate, 1-1} lin. long including: the 
petiole, elliptic or orbicular, obtuse or rounded at both ends, apiculate, 
coriaceous or perhaps somewhat fleshy, with very minutely denticulate 
cartilaginous margins, glabrous, apparently glaucous. Stipules very 
minute ornone. Involucre solitary, axillary at the apex of the branches, 
about ? lin. in diam., obconic, glabrous, glaucous, with 4 glands and 
5 oblong fringed lobes ; glands minute, about } lin. in their greater diam., 
transverse, oblong, entire, without distinct appendages. Capsule fallen 
away, not seen, but exserted on a recurved pedicel about 1} lin. long. 
Lower Guinea. (ierman South-west Africa: by the Swakop. River, near 
Salem, Giirich, 3! 
Pax has described this as a small decumbent herb, but the very imperfect type 
specimen has more the appearance of being erect, with ascending branches at a little 
distance from, but subparallel with, the main stem or branch. The glands described 
by Pax, from which the plant is named, are merely the scars of the fallen involucres, 
which occur in many species. 
13. E. subterminalis, V.. Br. Perennial? Stems up to6 in. 
long, perhaps prostrate, angular, glabrous, woody at the base. Leaves 
opposite, shortly petiolate, 1-24 lin. long, 3-14 lin. broad, oblong to 
obliquely elliptic, very obtuse or rounded and very minutely denticulate 
at the apex, entire below, oblique at the base, thick and coriaceous or 
perhaps fleshy, glabrous on both sides, apparently glaucous. Stipules all 
free or those on the under side of the stem sometimes united, entire and 
Subulate or divided. Involucres solitary in the axils of the 1-3 terminal 
pairs of leaves, shortly pedunculate, 2 lin. long and in diam., narrowly 
funnel-shaped, glabrous outside, pubescent within, with 3-4 glands and 
4-5 very small lobes; glands minute, transverse, bordered on the outer 
margin with a narrow entire or very slightly toothed petal-like white 
appendage, Capsule 1 lin. long and in diam., acutely 3-angled, glabrous, 
exserted on an abruptly recurved pedicel scarcely 4 longer than the 
involucre. Seeds } lin. long, 4-angled, rather acute at one end, some- 
what deeply and irregularly rugose, reddish. ‘ 
Gower Guinea. Angola; by the River Cunene, Vewton! between Huilla — 
Humpata, Johnston / : 
This resembles both Z. glanduligera, Pax, and FE. Nelsii, Pax, but seems distintt 
from both. From Z. glanduligera it differs in its leaves being only very malneiely 
toothed at the apex, not all round, its involucre-glands having distinct. petalor’ 
appendages and a shorter pedicel to theeapsule. From EZ. Nelsii it differs in rye 
involucres twice as large and the pedicel of the capsule abruptly recurved and.omy 
} longer than the involucre. ae 
14. E, Nelsii, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 737. Annual = 
possibly perennial, with very numerous densely leafy prostrate stem 
radiating from the crown of a 1-1} lin.-thick root. Stems 1—3 in. pe 
rather densely pinnately branched, glabrous. Leaves opposite, et 
crowded in 2 ranks, 3-14 lin, long including the very short petiole, Ft 
lin. broad, oblong or slightly obovate-oblong, very obtusely round 
