528 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (BROWN). | Euphorbia. 
‘271! Lages Muku in East Ruanda, MWildbraed, 449! Kilmatinde, Claus, 27! 
Prittwitz, 126! 
56. E. pseudograntii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 342. A stout 
herb, 3-6 ft. high. Leaves alternate, somewhat whorled at the base of 
the inflorescence, 8-12 in. long (including the petiole), 14—3} in. broad, 
cuneately oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate or the upper strap-shaped, 
shortly acute or subacute, tapering at the basal 4-4 into a petiole 
3-1 in. long, glabrous on both sides. Stipules none. Inflorescence 
terminal, dividing into a large cyme or umbel several times forked, 
glabrous. Bracts opposite or 3 in a whorl at the base of the umbel, 
sessile, ?-2} in. long, 3-14 in. broad, ovate to elliptic, acutely or 
abruptly terminating in an awn 1-3 in. long, cordate at the base, 
glabrous. Involucres solitary, terminal, in the forks of the cyme or 
sometimes axillary and arranged along the branches in a raceme of 3 or 
4, very shortly pedunculate, } in. or more in diam. without the glands, 
cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 subquadrate fringed lobes; 
glands with the body part 23 lin. in their greater diam., transversely 
linear-oblong, 2-lipped, whitish-green, with the outer margin divided 
into 5-6 filiform violet processes 1 in. long and crutch-like at their 
yellow tips. Ovary glabrous, with a distinct cupular several-toothed 
calyx at its base, exserted on a pedicel 4—4 in. long, at first recurved, 
afterwards erect ; styles 2 lin. long, united at the base, spreading above, 
slender, with 2-lobed and somewhat crutch-like tips. Capsule and seeds 
not seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Langenburg district; sides of Ukangu 
Mountain by Lake Nyassa, 1600 {t., Goetze, 888 ! 
Very similar to E. Grantii, Oliver, but with broader petiolate leaves, different 
involucre-glands and a larger calyx. 
57, E, Cervicornu, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. 87. A 
herbaceous plant 2-3 ft. high (J/ann). Stems of the specimens seen, 
2-23 lin. thick, glabrous. Leaves alternate, 4—6 in. long, 14-2} in. 
broad, oblanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, acute or very shortly sub- 
cuspidate, cuneately tapering into a petiole 1-3 in. long, glabrous on 
both sides. Stipules none. Cyme terminal, commencing with a single 
subsessile terminal involucre, when fully developed 4-44 in. in diam., 
with 3 primary repeatedly forked rays, forming a rather compact 
mass, glabrous, Bracts sessile, 43-7 lin. long, 4-5 lin. broad, su 
orbicular or broadly elliptic, rounded at the apex into a short awn-like 
point not more than } in. long, rounded at the base, glabrous. In- 
volucre solitary at the forks or nodes of the cyme or terminal, subsessile 
or very Shortly pedunculate, 5-6 lin. in diam. from tip to tip of the 
gland-lobes, cup-shaped, with 4-5 glands and 5 erect oblong or rece: 
angular lobes rather deeply fringed at the truncate apex, glabrous; 
glands large, 1}-14 lin. in their greater diam., half-circular, or cuneately 
subquadrate, yellowish-green, with 2-5 filiform forked red processes 
about 13 lin. long on the straight outer margin. Ovary recurve’s 
glabrous ; styles free or shortly connate at the base, 1-1} ln. long, 
