508 CXXIJ. EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN), | Luphorbia. 
Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 84. A. Morskalei, partly, and A. burman- 
nianum, Klotzsch & Garcke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1860, 25. 
/ Upper Guinea. Senegal, Guillemin ! Heudelot ! Perrottet! Grolier! Sene- 
gambia, Leprieur ! Heudelot, 226! Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 4636! Northern 
Nigeria: Kuka, on Lake Chad, Vogel, 2! Nupe, Barter, 316! 834! Katagum 
District, Dalziel, 306! Yola, Dalziel, 154! Lokoja, Shaw, 35! Cameroons ; Rio del 
Rey, Johnston ! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Suakin, Zord ! Dongola, Ehrenberg, 17! between Suakin 
and Berber, Schweinfurth, 592! 624! Abu Hamed, Petherick ! banks of the Nile, 
Bromfield, 64! Galabat, Schweinfurth, 898 ! 899 ! Abyssinia: by the River Tacazze, 
Schimper, 618! Rosen ex Pax. Sudan: Wadi Schellai, Schweinfurth, 926! near 
Khartoum, Broun ! Sennar, Kotschy, 247! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 176! 310! Kordofan, 
Kotschy, 155 ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith, 58! 63! German South-west Africa, 
Dinter, 105! 222! 1418! 
Also in the Cape Verde Islands, Egypt, Arabia, and Syria. 
E. thymifolia, Linn, Diss. Euphorb. in Ameen. Acad. iii. 115, and Sp. Pl. ed. i. 
454, anative of India, is quoted by De Wildeman in fitudes Fi. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 
i, 280, and ii. 291, and Miss. E. Laurent, i. 142, as having been collected in Belgian 
Congo by Laurent, 437, and Gillet, 2567, but 1 have not seen a specimen from Africa 
that agrees with the type of LZ, thymifolia in the Linnean Herbarium, and suspect 
that the specimens referred to belong to HL. egyptiaca, Boiss. 
21. E. sanguinea, Hochst. d: Steud. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodi. xv. il, 
35. Annual, with several prostrate or decumbent branching glabrous 
stems. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 1-5 lin. long, 4-23 lin. broad, 
oblong or occasionally obliquely elliptic, obtusely rounded at the apex, 
very oblique at the base, toothed nearly to the base, at least on one 
margin or sometimes nearly or quite entire, glabrous on both sides, 
often marked with a red spot or blotch. Stipules all free, often as long 
as or longer than the petioles, those on the under side of the stem 
usually broader and more divided than those on the upper side. 
Inflorescence as in H. prostrata. Peduncles 4-3 lin. long, glabrous. 
Involucre 4-4 lin. long, campanulate or globose-campanulate, glabrous, 
with 4 glands and 5 lobes; glands minute, transverse, half surrounded 
by a narrow appendage, which is usually 2~3-lobed. Capsule 3-1 lin. 
in diam., glabrous. Seeds 3 lin. long, 4-angled, slightly transversel} 
rugose, pale reddish._— Z. prostrata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw..1. 
942, partly, not of Ait. 
Wile Land. Somaliland, Mrs. Lort Phillips! Ellenbeck, 463a ! Uganda: 
Kavirondo; between Nandi and Mumias, Whyte! near Nairobi, Whyte! Gilgil 
River, Scott-Elliot, 6573! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: between the mouth of the River Giraul and 
Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 648 partly! between Nene and Lopollo, Welwitsch, aie 
German South-west Africa : Olukonda, Schinz, 897! Okandya, Dinter, 361! Awichab. 
Dinter, 1002! Kuibis, Range, 885! Koes Redmond, Graf-Pfeil, 152! : 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara: Kwai, Albers, 364! 
Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 9157! Kilimanjaro, at Marangu, Volkens, 1250 ! Lastest 
Thlig, 338! 489! Karagwe; Kafuro, Stuhlmann, 1892! 1898! British Centra 
Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba, Mahon ! 
Var. intermedia, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 35. Stem either solitary and — 
