Euphorbia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN). D11 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 942, partly; De Wild. Miss. F. Laurent, 
i, 142, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 280 and ii. 289 ; Stapf in 
Johnston, Liberia, ii. 646. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Farmar, 8! Sierra Leone, Don! Barter! Vogel! 
Welwitsch,650! Liberia: Cape Palmas, Dinklage, 67! Gold Coast: Aburi, Johnson, 
238! <Adafo, Krause, 96! Lagos, Millen, 23! Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar, 
Holland, 123! Cameroons, Dusen, 283! Diestel, 75! Fernando Po, Barter ! 
Mann, 213! 
Wile Land. British East Africa: near Nairobi, Whyte! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Welwitsch, 649! Newton, 17! Island of 
St. Thomas, Quintas, 184! Moller, 390! Newton ex Pax. Gaboon, Bittner, 273! 
Soyaux, 383! Belgian Congo: Boma, Laurent, Pynaert ; Moanda, Gillet, 3240, 
4059, ex De Wildeman. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Last! Stuhlmann, 337! Rhodesia: Kalomo, 
Rogers, 8224! 
Also in the Cape Verde Islands and South Africa. A native of Tropical America, 
whence it has probably been introduced into various parts of the Old World. 
25. E. loandensis, V. Z. Br. Annual. Stems spreading on the 
ground, 2-6 in. long, laxly branched, thinly sprinkled all round with very 
Spreading straight hairs. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 14-3} lin. 
long, 3-14 lin, broad, oblong, obtusely rounded at the apex, very unequal 
at the base, entire or obscurely toothed at the apex, glabrous on both 
sides or with a few hairs beneath at the base. Stipules all free, those on 
the upper side of the stem subulate, those on the under side broader and 
Cut Into 2-3 segments. Inflorescence as in EL. prostrata. Peduncle at 
first. almost obsolete, finally lengthening to } or } lin. long, glabrous. 
avolucre } lin. long, rather longer than broad, campanulate, glabrous, 
uniformly reddish, without paler stripes, with 4 glands and 5 lobes ; 
glands minute, narrowly half surrounded with an inconspicuous or sub- 
obsolete appendage; lobes subulate, entire, not ciliate. Capsule § lin. 
in diam., with pubescent angles, nearly glabrous on the sides. Seeds 
lin, long, oblong, 4-angled, minutely tuberculate, whitish. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Gossweiler, 395! near Loanda and 
enedo and Imbondeiro dos Lobos, Welwitsch, 647 partly! 
Allied to E, prostrata, Ait., and EH, granulata, Forsk., but its more loosely 
ranched habit gives it a different appearance from either. From the former the 
Pubescence and stipules, and from the latter the differently shaped -proportionately 
and er and glabrous leaves, absence of the characteristic pale stripes on the involucre 
want of cilia on its lobes, readily distinguish it. Welwitsch, 647, as distributed, 
84 mixture, one of the specimens under this number at Kew being E. granulata, 
26. EB. serpens, /, B. ¢ K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 52. Habit and 
ngement of inflorescence as in E. prostrata, Ait Stems 3-7 in, 
ie branching, glabrous. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 1}-2$ lin. 
ong, 1-23 lin. broad, suborbicular, slightly notched at the obtusely 
rounded apex, unequally subcordate at the base, entire, glabrous on both 
— Stipules 2 at each node, each pair being united into a deltoid- 
vate or deltoid-oblong body, irregularly cut or toothed at the top. 
Avolucres shortly pedunculate, 2 lin. long, campanulate, with 4 glands 
