506 ©XXII, EUPHORBIACE& (BROWN). | Euphorbia. 
thinly puberulous, with 3-4 glands and 4-5 minute ciliate lobes; glands 
very minute, transverse, narrowly oblong, concave, peltate, without 
appendages. Ovary exserted on a rather long recurved pedicel, 
glabrous; styles minute, scarcely } lin. long. Capsule and seeds not 
seen.— Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 179, name only. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Salt / 
This is closely allied to 2. polyenemoides, Hochst., and when better known may 
possibly prove to be a form of that species. The single specimen of which the type 
consists has, however, a quite different appearance. It has dried brown. The leaves, 
which appear to be thicker, more opaque,.and more coriaceous than in Z. polycnemotdes, 
are not toothed, and although somewhat apiculate are not mucronate in the same 
way; the minute ciliation on the young leaves seems wanting in £. polycnemoides,, 
and the styles are shorter than in the latter plant. 
17. E. polycnemoides, /ochst. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 46, 
and Ic. Euphorb. 12, t. 16. Annual. Stems prostrate, decumbent or 
erect, 4-14 in. long, usually much-branched, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
shortly petiolate, 1-11 lin. long, 4-2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, linear- 
oblong, or linear, more rarely oblong, often slightly falcate, acute or 
obtuse, often somewhat mucronate, more rarely rounded at the apex, 
obtuse to subcordate at the unequal base, minutely and acutely toothed 
at the apex, entire below or sometimes quite entire, glabrous on both 
sides. Stipules all free, subulate or those on one side of the stem 
broader and divided. Involucres solitary, axillary and usually spaced 
along the flowering branchlets, }-2 lin. long, including the very short 
peduncle, campanulate, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 deltoid-subulate 
slightly ciliate lobes, green or purplish; glands minute, transverse, with 
or without a minute notched or 2-lobed appendage. Capsule not quite 
1 lin. in diam., glabrous. Seeds } lin. long, ovoid, subacute at one 
end, 4-angled, rather deeply and somewhat pitted-rugose or irregularly 
transversely rugose, reddish or whitish.—Anisophyllum polycnemoides, 
Klotzsch & Garcke in Abh. Akad, Berlin, 1860, 34, name only. 
Upper Guinea. North Cameroons, Valbot ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Keren, Steudner, 552! Galabat: around Matamma, 
Schweinfurth, 881! Abyssinia; by the river Anzeba, Hildebrandt, 608! Hamedo 
Plain and Valleys, 4600-4700 ft., Schimper, 99! 196! Soudan: Gebel Regeb, Brow, 
1022! Kordofan: Obeid, Kotschy, 302! Pfund, 42! 401! Dilling, Brown, _ 
Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2358! 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Nyika Plateau . 
Nymkowa, 6500 ft., MeClounie, 171! 
18. B, Afzelii, V. 2. Br. Habit as in LE. egyptiaca, Boiss. but 
perhaps perennial, with slender pinnately branching prostrate stems WP 
to 1 ft. long, minutely puberulous with adpressed curved hairs all rout 
or more or less glabrous on the under side, naked and somewhat es 
with thickened nodes at the basal parts. Leaves opposite, shortly 
petiolate, very crowded on the lateral branches, 2-3 lin. long, $-1} lip. 
broad, oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute at the apex, oblique 
subequal at the rounded base, entire or minutely toothed, glabrous a 
with a few hairs above, thinly pubescent beneath. Stipules all free © 
