Euphorbia. | CXX1I. EUPHORBIACEX (BROWN). 509 
with alternate ascending-spreading branches or several from the root and all erect 
or ascending. Leaves up to 7 lin, long and 33 lin. broad, but often not larger than 
in the type—Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. Append. ii. 314. £. intermedia, 
Hoehst. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 35. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: various localities, Schweinfurth, 342, 344, 569, 1259, 
1746, 2043, ex Schweinfurth. Abyssinia: Shoata, Schimper, 1133! Wojerat, 
Petit! and without precise locality, Schimper, 182! Uganda: Kavirondo, Scott- 
Elliot, 7015! 
Also in Arabia and South Africa. The specimen of Welwitsch, 648, at the 
British Museum is L. granulata. 
22. E. rubriflora, V. /. Br. Annual. Stems prostrate, radiating 
from the crown of the root, 1-10 in. long, simple or branched, minutely 
puberulous with curved hairs on the upper, glabrous on the under side. 
Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 24-6 lin. long, 1-4 lin. broad, oblong, 
elliptic-oblong or obliquely ovate-oblong, rounded or subacute at the 
apex, unequal at the rounded base, entire, glabrous on both sides or 
with afew hairs along the midrib beneath. Stipules all free, subulate 
or lanceolate-subulate, entire or slightly divided. Flowering branchlets 
axillary, often shorter than the leaves from whose axils they arise, with 
! mvolucre to each pair of reduced leaves. Peduncle }-4 lin. long. 
Involuere 3-1 lin. long, cup-shaped or obconic, 5-angled, thinly pubes- 
cent with fine spreading curved hairs or almost glabrous, with 4 con- 
Splcuously appendaged glands and 5 lanceolate ciliate lobes; glands 
small, transverse, with large petal-like bright red, pink or white appen- 
dages, unequal in size, the two larger 3-14 lin. long, 7-2 lin. broad, 
obliquely oblong and somewhat auricled on one side at the base,the two 
smaller about half as large or less, transverse, somewhat cuneate-oblong, 
all entire. Capsule nearly 1 lin. in diam., pubescent along the angles, 
glabrous on the sides; styles 1 lin. long, filiform, entire, not bifid at the 
apex. Seeds % lin. long, 4-angled, transversely or somewhat pitted- 
Tugulose, whitish on a pale reddish ground. 
. Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: in sand at Livingstone, 3000 ft., Rogers, 7182! 
in mud, near the river at Victoria Falls, Allen ! 
23. E. mozambicensis, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv.ii.36. Annual, 
Tadiately branching at the crown of the root into several or many 
much-branched prostrate stems 3-18 in. long and }-}lin. thick, puberu- 
ous with minute curved hairs along the upper side, glabrous beneath. 
Ves opposite, shortly petiolate, 1-3 lin. long, 3-2 lin. broad, obovate, 
obtusely or subtruncately rounded and emarginate, with a minute tooth in 
notch or very minutely toothed at the apex, rarely quite entire, oblique 
es base, with a rounded auricle on one side of the midrib and acutely 
-Pering into the petiole on the other, or subequally tapering on both 
Sides, quite glabrous. Stipules minute, free or those on the under side 
“mew hat united. Flowering branchlets very short, with 1 involucre to 
fach pair of reduced leaves. Peduncle very short. Involucre }-4 lin. long 
a8 much in diam., subglobosely cup-shaped, glabrous, apparently 
&reen, without paler stripes, with 4 glands and 5 deltoid-acuminate 
te lobes ; glands minute, about } lin. in their greater diam., trans- 
