Euphorbia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA (BROWN). 527 
irregular hieroglyphic darker markings, slightly viscid.— Boiss. in DC, 
Prodr. xv. ii. 1264; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvii.76; N.E. Br, 
in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 138. 4. Marlothii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. x. 36, 
and Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 741, 742; Berger, Sukkul. Euphorb. 115 and 
117, fig. 31; Dinter, Deutsch Sudw.-Afr. 26, 90. 4. longibracteata, 
Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 742. #. Bawmii, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
2me sér. viii. 636. 
Lower Guinea. Southern Angola: by the Kubango River, Baum, 458! and 
without precise locality, Monteiro! German South-west Africa: Amboiand; 
Olukonda, Schinz, 734! Damaraland, Baines! Een! Hartmann, 40! Luderitz, 
85! Hereroland; Karribib, Marloth, 1425! Dinter, 1390! Great Namaqualand : 
Rehoboth, Fleck, 4474. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Kobis, Baiaes ! 
Kwebe Hills, Lugard, 247! Mrs. Lugard, 87! Totin, near Lake Ngami, 
Lugard, 75! 
+). E. Grantii, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 144, ¢. 93. A stout 
bush or shrub 5-10 ft. high, with flowering branches } in. or more 
thick, glabrous, leafy, apparently herbaceous, perhaps woody at the 
ase, Leaves alternate, sessile, ascending, subcoriaceous, 6-12 in. long, 
3-1 in. broad, strap-shaped or linear-lanceolate, acute or the upper 
mucronate, rounded or narrowed at the base, glabrous on both sides. 
Stipules none. Umbel terminal, 5-15 in. in diam., with (apparently 3) 
repeatedly forked cyme-rays. Bracts opposite, sessile, 14-34 in. long, 
1-2 in. broad, ovate or orbicular-ovate, acuminate into a fine awn 
$-1 in. long, glabrous. Involucres solitary at the forks and flowering 
nodes of the cymes, shortly pedunculate, } in. in diam. without the 
glands, broadly cup- or somewhat basin-shaped, minutely puberulous 
outside, with 4 large glands and 5 or sometimes fewer subquadrate 
bristle-toothed puberulous lobes, apparently purplish or red; glands 
about 4 lin. long and 5-6 lin. across, fan-shaped, palmately divided inte 
»-9 (usually 7) filiform segments (appendages) 2-3-times forked at the 
apex, with a crenation of the gland at the base of each segment, 
‘pparently greenish, and its segments red with whitish or greenish 
tips. Capsule exserted, 3 in. in diam., with a very small slightly lobed 
ciliate calyx at its base, glabrous; styles about } in. long, united for 
half their length, shortly 2-lobed or transversely capitate at the apex. 
ds globose, 24 lin. in diam., smooth, but with a surface like that 
ground glass, dark brown, greyish-white when unripe, without a 
caruncle.— Pax in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 108, and Bull. Herb. 
a vi. 741,742. H. Muleme, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc, xxxvii. 
of 
TE rg Gand. Uganda: near Entebbe, 3900 ft., Brown, 384! Bugegu, Dawe, 
2639 Buddn, Dawe, 274! near Mulema, Bagshawe, 321! 340! Ukamba, Hildebrandt, 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Moliro, Descamps., 
5 eam. Distr. German East Africa: Unyanyembe; near Kazeh (Tabora) 
Fuck, ¥ Grant! Lower Plateau north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! Plagrige, 
Scher, 520! 565! Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1620! 3617! 3791! Kutogo, Mildbraed, 
