Euphorbia. | ‘ CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (BROWN). 519 
glands and 5 subquadrate lobes, ciliate at the apex, puberulous outside ; 
glands 34-4 lin. in their greatest diam., transversely oblong, entire. 
Capsule 24-3 lin. long, erect, only just exserted from the involucre, 
covered with rather long spreading hairs; styles about } lin. long, 
united at the base or to above the middle, entire at the apex. Seeds 
1} lin. long, ovoid, somewhat pointed at one end, encircled with 3 
irregular series of small contiguous tubercles, dull greenish-brown. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in wooded pastures between Lopollo and 
Ivantala, Welwitsch, 283 ! : 
41. E. sarmentosa, Welw. ex Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 121. 
Perennial, somewhat shrubby and more or less scrambling when adult, 
woody and 4-3 in. thick at the base. Stems suberect, much-branched 
or forked, reddish ; branches spreading, tortuous, with recurved spread- 
ing branchlets, puberulous with curved hairs, Leaves apparently soon 
falling off, alternate on the branches, opposite on the flowering branchlets, 
somewhat fleshy, petiolate, 3-34 in. long, 2-5 lin. broad, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, acute, obtuse at the base, with fine distant teeth on the 
Margin, glabrous above, puberulous with curved hairs beneath, slightly 
glaucous; midrib narrowly wing-like on the underside ; petiole 2-4 lin. 
Ong or the flowering leaves subsessile. Stipules none. Involucres 
solitary on the forks or at the nodes along one side of the branchlets or 
occasionally terminal on short aborted branchlets, subsessile or shortly 
pedunculate, about 1} lin, in diam., cup-shaped, densely whitish pube- 
rulous with curved hairs outside, with 4 glands and 5 oblong or subquad- 
tate lobes 3-toothed and ciliate at the apex ; glands with a small pocket~ 
like base, produced dorsally into a revolute limb, rectangular and 3 lin. 
long and broad when flattened out, minutely crenulate along the truncate 
*pex, puberulous on the inner face, reddish-brown (Welwitsch). Capsule 
exserted, erect, 24-21 lin. in diam., and rather longer than thick, 
minutely puberulous ; styles } lin. long, rather stout, stiffly erect, free 
hearly or quite to the base, subacute, with a simple oblique stigma. 
Seeds 2 lin. long, oblong, compressed dorsally, with 2 vertical rows of 
8-4 deep pits on each face and 1 row along each edge, glabrous, 
blackish, with a white caruncle.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl]. Welw. i. 950. 
thi Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; on dry hills around Quicuxe, mountain 
lickets near Mutollo and near Loanda, rare, Welwitsch, 297 ! 
A specimen collected at Kiora, Antunes, 336, may also belong here. 
P F lowering branches of this species much resemble those of EH. systyloides, Paxs 
ge East Africa, but that species is an annual, with a more globose capsule and 
totally different tuberculate (not pitted) seeds. 
42. E. systyla, Hdgew. in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xvi. 1218, Annual 
1-2 ft. high, cymosely or corymbosely branched, glabrous. Leaves oppo- 
Site at the forks and flowering nodes of the branches, alternate else- 
Where ; petiole 2-6 lin. long; blade 4-2 in. long, 1-5 lin. broad, linear to 
elliptic, subacute or obtuse at the apex, obtuse or rounded at the base, 
duite entire, glabrous on both sides, Stipules none. Involucres sub- 
Sessile or shortly pedunculate at the forks, nodes or tips of the branches, 
