Euphorbia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN). Old 
the bracts) sessile, 4-} in. long, 3 in. or more broad, with the larger 
transverse or somewhat deltoid-reniform and the upper or bracts passing 
into orbicular-ovate, obtuse, apiculate, subtruncate at the base, somewhat 
fleshy, glaucous. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, unequally branched, 
with the involucres rather closely placed along the erect branchlets. 
Tnvolucre solitary at the flowering nodes of the short cyme-branchlets, 
and terminal, subsessile, rather less than 1 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, 
glabrous outside, with 4 glands and 5 oblong toothed or sometimes 
entire ciliate lobes ; glands usually about } (rarely 4) lin. in their greater 
diam., transverse, narrowly oblong, entire, slightly concave. Capsule 
about 1} lin. in diam., thinly and minutely hispid; styles 4 lin. long, 
free, spreading, bifid at the apex. Seeds (immature) oblong or sub- 
rectangular, dorsally flattened, with a slight furrow on each side of a 
median ridge down the back, smooth, dark brown.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 950. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; stony slopes of the Serra de Montes 
Negros, Welwitsch, 287 ! 
According to Welwitsch this plant is an annual or of several years’ duration. 
. 
38. E, acalyphoides, J/ochst. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 98, 
and Ic, Euphorb. 17, t.49. Annual, 6-15in. high. Stem erect, branch- 
ing at the base, 2-3 lin. thick, glabrous or puberulous at the tips. 
eaves alternate ; petiole 1-11 in. long; blade 3-1} in. long, 5-10 lin. 
broad, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, more or 
&ss cuneate at the base, entire, glabrous above, thinly pubescent beneath. 
Stipules none. Peduncles axillary, borne all along the stem and 
branches, much shorter than the petioles, with a pair of small opposite 
bract-leaves and 1-3 involucres. Involucre sessile, 1j-1} lin, in diam., 
cup-shaped, puberulous outside or glabrous on the basal part, with 4 
glands and 5 rectangular or subquadrate ciliate lobes; glands 3 lin. in 
their greater diam., transversely elliptic or elliptic-oblong, entire, pube- 
Scent all over. Capsule 2-21 lin. in diam., puberulous with minute 
curved hairs, which, on the ovary, arise from minute tubercles ; styles 
1 lin. long, shortly united below, shortly bifid at the apex, at first 
Spreading, afterwards collected. Seeds 1} lin. long, ovoid, slightly 
angular, acute, transversely encircled by 2 constrictions, minutely 
tuberculate.—Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 315; 
tern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i.950. £. thelesperma, Hochst. ex Boiss. 
in DC, Prodr, xv. ii. 98. Tithymalus acalyphoides, Schweinf. Beitr. FI. 
Aethiop, 38, 
_ Nile Lana. Eritrea: Gedem Mountain, near Massowa, Schweinfurth, 117 ; 
Terha Valley, near Saati, Schweinfurth, 301; Habab, Hildebrandt, 690! Amba 
‘Ochan, Schweinfurth, 636 ; near Togodele, Ehrenberg! Abyssinia: near Gageros, 
— 182! 2294! Modat province, Schimper, 1753! Kordofan: Arashkol 
fountain, Kotschy, 88 ! Darfur, Pfund, 485 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda ; near Loanda and near Penedo, Welwitsch, 
maid: Gossweiler, 184! 227! 
Also in Arabia, 
