Luphorbia. CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN). 523. 
ip 
minute curved hairs outside ; glands 3-3 lin. long and 3-1} lin. broad, 
peltate, 2-lipped, lips somewhat pressed together, forming an oblique 
flattened funnel-shaped cavity, with the lip on the inner side halt as 
long as the outer, both broadly rounded, entire; lobes transversely 
oblong, 14-14 lin. broad, truncate and cut into a fringe of many ciliate 
teeth at the top. Ovary densely tomentose when young; styles short 
and thick, bifid at the recurved tips. Capsule not seen. 
Mozamb,. Distr. Rhodesia: Matabeleland, Oates! Guelo district, 100 miles 
north-east of Buluwayo, Rand, 218! Chilanga, Rogers, 8466 ! 
This is only distinguishable from E. bongensis, Kl. & Peyr., by its longer 
peduncles and the longer hairs on the tomentose involucre and ovary. 
48. E. Verdickii, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 280. 
A perennial herb about 6 in. high. Stem with spreading straight 
branches, more or less fleshy, shortly and densely pubescent. Leaves 
4-1 in, long, #-14 lin. broad, linear or oblong-linear, acute, rounded at 
the base, with revolute ciliate margins, glabrous above, with some hairs 
on the under surface, especially on the prominent midrib; petiole 3 lin. 
long. Involucres terminal, about 34 lin. in diam., on peduncles up to 
1 in. long, velvety, with 5 glands forming rounded glabrescent lobes, 
tuberculate on their upper surface, wavy at the margins. Ovary shortly 
pedicellate, tomentose; styles bifid. Capsule about 24 lin. in diam., 
tomentose. Seeds smooth, greyish-brown. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Katanga district, Lukafu, Verdick, 309. 
This may prove to be identical with E. Oatesii, Rolfe. 
49. EB. trichadenia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 125. Perennial. 
Rootstock a tuber with an elongated woody neck, sometimes 3-4 in. 
long, producing annual herbaceous prostrate or erect herbaceous stems 
~4 in. high, branching from the base, puberulous or glabrous. 
ves opposite at the forkings of the stems and the flowering nodes, 
alternate elsewhere, sessile, thinly coriaceous or perhaps slightly fleshy, 
2 in. long, 3-23 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, or the lower 
and sometimes those under the involucres (bracts) smaller and lanceolate. 
or scale-like, acute, usually slightly curved, often longitudinally folded, 
glabrous on both sides, sometimes ciliate on the narrow cartilaginous 
margins, Stipules none. Involucres solitary in the forks of the stems or 
m terminal 3-10-flowered cymes, shortly pedunculate, about 4-4 in. in 
mm. cup-shaped, glabrous or minutely puberulous (not pilose as 
*riginally described) outside, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rect- 
angular or subquadrate fringed lobes; glands 2-23 lin. broad, palmate 
or fan-shaped, deeply divided into 4-9 linear or filiform simple or once: 
or twice forked segments, flat or channelled but not corrugated on their 
"pper surface, with the undivided basal part 2-lipped, from the inner 
Margin being inflexed. Capsule erect, 34-4 lin. in diam., glabrous, on a 
P uberulous pedicel ; styles 14-2 lin. long, united for about half their 
ength, with recurved-spreading thickened minutely 2-lobed tips, and 
“ith or without an articulation on the united part. Seeds about 13 lin. in 
‘Am., globose, acutely pointed at one end, thinly and minutely scabrous- 
