Euphorbia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (BROWN). 505 
emarginate (not acute as originally described) at the apex, apiculate, 
very oblique at the base, entire or obscurely and very minutely toothed 
at the apex, rather thick and somewhat fleshy, glabrous on both sides. 
Stipules free or more or less united, cut into filiform segments.’ Involucres 
one to each pair of leaves at the apex of the branches, minute, about 4 lin. 
long and in diam., obconic-campanulate, on peduncles about $ lin. long, 
glabrous, greenish or purple, with 4 glands and 5 minute acute lobes ; 
vlands minute, transverse, narrow, purplish, with a very minute 
appendage along their outer margin. Capsule ? lin. in diam., sub- 
acutely 3-angled, glabrous, exserted on an erect pedicel about twice as 
long as the involucre and slightly curved to one side; styles very 
minute, about =; lin. long, bifid. Seeds } lin. long, oblong, rather 
sharply 4-angled, transversely rugose, pale reddish, glaucous. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: near Windhoek, Dinter ! Herero- 
land, Nels, 91! 
A specimen collected near Kunjas in German South-west Africa by Dr. Range 
(311) probably belongs to this species; the leaves and involucres are the same, but 
the internodes are elongated and the leaf-pairs distant, giving the specimen an entirely 
different appearance. It possibly grew in a less dry locality. 
10. =. Rive, Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 186. A perennial 
herb with radiately spreading prostrate glabrous stems, much-branched. 
ves opposite, slightly fleshy, very shortly petiolate, 14-24 lin. long, 
1-13 lin, broad, ovate, acute, subcordate or rounded at the slightly 
unequal base, entire, glabrous on both sides. Stipules free and subulate 
on the upper side, united into an ovate toothed membrané on the 
under side of the stems. Tnvolucres on peduncles 3-1 lin. long, solitary, 
one to each pair of leaves on the branchlets, 1} lin. in diam. including 
the appendages, campanulate, glabrous, purple, with 4 conspicuously 
*ppendaged glands and 5 minute deltoid acute ciliate lobes; glands 
went transversely oblong, with petal-like white entire appendages 
4-4 lin. long and 2 lin. broad. Ovary glabrous, sharply 3-angled, 
od on a recurved pedicel ultimately 1} lin. long; styles } lin. 
ong, free to the base, bifid at the apex. Fruit and seeds not seen. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: between Surro and Rogono, Riva, 94! 
16. EB. propinqua, 7?. Br. in Salt, Voy. Abyss. Append. iv. xv. 
“ame only. The single type specimen is 9} in. long, consisting of a 
pmewhat woody or wiry main branch, ? lin. thick at the base, with the 
nehlets all subparallel to the main branch, glabrous, brown. Leaves 
°pposite, somewhat rigidly coriaceous, shortly petiolate, closely 
ced or subimbricate, 2-4} lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, linear-oblong or 
peat, acute or obtuse, slightly unequal at the rounded base, entire, 
me rous on both sides, but when very young with a very minute 
en ‘on on one or both margins, at least at the base. Stipules all free, 
‘he subulate, Flowering branchlets shorter than or about equalling 
ve . from whose axils they arise, with one involucre toeach pair of 
ped leaves. Involucre about 3 lin. long, including the very short 
uncle, 4 lin, in diam., somewhat pear-shaped, very minutely and 
