520 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA! (BROWN). | Luphorbia. 
solitary, 14-2 lin. in diam., cup-like, most minutely puberulous, with 4 
glands and 5 oblong or rectangular toothed puberulous lobes; glands 
#-14 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic-oblong or very 
broadly wedge-shaped with broadly rounded outer and inner margins, 
entire, dull purple? Capsule exserted, subglobose, 2 lin. in diam., 
most minutely puberulous; styles 1-1} lin. long, united for ? of their 
length, with scarcely spreading subentire or shortly bifid tips. Seeds 
1? lin. long, 4-angled, acute at the apex, truncate ut the base, with 2-5 
constrictions around it, brown.—Anderson in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 
i, 5d, t. 8; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 98. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: plain between the shore and the Ahl Mountains, 
Hildebrandt, 872! 
Also in Arabia, 
43. E. systyloides, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 121. Annual, 2-43 
ft. high, with a single stem below, branching near or above the middle 
in a laxly corymbose manner, glabrous below, minutely puberulous to 
subglabrous on the upper part ; branches suberect, repeatedly alternately 
forked. Leaves alternate on the main stem, opposite on the branches, 
petiolate ; those on the main stem with petioles }-13 in. long and blades 
13-43 in. long and 4-3 in. broad, lanceolate, narrowly oblong-lanceolate 
or sometimes elliptic, those on the branches with shorter petioles and 
blades 1-4 in. long, $—-4 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, rarely 
lanceolate, all acute at the apex and more or less cuneate at the base, 
finely serrate, glabrous on both sides ; midrib acute or wing-like beneath. 
Stipules none. Involucres sessile or rarely pedunculate, solitary 12 the 
forks or at the nodes or apex of the branches, 1-1} lin. in diam., cup- 
shaped, adpressed-puberulous, with 4 glands and 5 transverse or sub- 
quadrate fringed lobes ; glands ?—® lin. in their greater diam., transverse, 
somewhat 2-lipped, entire. Capsule very shortly exserted, 2} lin. 1 
diam., rather shorter than broad and slightly narrowed upwards, 
adpressed puberulous, with a small cupular entire or irregularly toothed 
calyx at its base; styles 1-4 lin. long, stout, entire, finally spreading, 
scarcely or very shortly united at the base. Seeds 14 lin. long, ovoid, 
not angular, acute at one end, minutely tuberculate, with the tubercles 
more or less arranged in: transverse series, whitish-grey or brown.—*"- 
Holstii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 121. £. Volkensit, Pax in Engl. Pil 
Ost-Afr. C. 242, and Engl. Jahrb. xxiii, 534. 
Wile Land. Uganda: Toro; Mpanga River, Bagshawe, 1068! i 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar! Kokotoni, Hildebrandt, 1041! German vee 
Africa: Usambara, Holst, 530! 8852! 9120! Engler, 415! Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 
638 ! Usaramo, Stuhlmann, 6464! 6573! 6877! Ndoa, Stuhlmann, 8058! a 
Stuhlmann, 8130! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Shire River (a cometary 
form with 4-angled seeds), Kirk ! 
Var. pedunculata, N. E. Br, Leaves on the flowering branckes 4-1} in. ime 
oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, acute or obtuse and apiculate. Involucres on gts 
peduncles 3-2 lin. long, densely adpressed-pubescent to subglabrous, Seeds CL SRT 
Jong, ovoid, acute at one end, distinctly 4-angled, brown or greyish-green- oe 
as in the type. 
