Euphorbia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE& (BROWN). O33 
tapering from above the middle into a slender petiole 4-5 lin. long, 
entire. Umbel in the type 5-rayed; rays about 14 in. long before 
forking, 2-3 times forked, puberulous or subtomentose, especially under 
the nodes. Bracts sessile, 3-1} in. long, 23-5} lin. broad, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base. Involucre 1% lin. in diam., 
campanulate, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 lobes; glands about $ lin. 
in their greater diam., transversely oblong, with 2 horns }—2 lin. long. 
Ovary glabrous, exserted on a recurved pedicel ; styles ? lin. long, bifid 
to } of their length, with recurved tips. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: inopen forest on the slopes of Muti Mountain, 
Mfongu, 5500-6200 ft., Ledermann, 5899! 
With the exception that the rays of the umbel are puberulous or subtomentose 
this does not seem to differ from EZ. ampla, Hk. f., and will probably prove to be a 
variety of that species. 
65. E. schimperiana, Scheele in Linnea, xvii. 344. Annual (or 
biennial ?), 3-41 ft. high. Stem simple below or occasionally branching 
at the base, often rather copiously branching above, it and the branches 
sometimes ending in a 3 to many times forked cyme, sometimes ter- 
minating in a 3—5-rayed umbel, with cyme-branches in the axils of the 
leaves below the umbel, glabrous or rather thinly puberulous on the 
¢yme-branches, Leaves alternate or with a whorl of 3-5 under the 
umbel, 3-33 in, long, 1-7 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 
acute, narrowed to a short petiole-like base, entire, glabrous on both 
sides. Stipules none. Cyme-branches 23-8 in. long, 3 to many times 
forked. Bracts opposite, sessile, }-1 in. long, $—-1 in. broad, triangular- 
ovate, acute or acuminate, very broadly cuneate, subtruncate or cordate 
at the base. Involucre solitary, very shortly pedicellate or sessile, 
3-1 lin. in diam., cup-shaped or somewhat obconic, glabrous outside, 
with 4 glands and 5 erect oblong lobes notched at the apex and more or 
less ciliate ; glands 4-3 lin. in their greater diam., }—} lin. in their 
lesser diam., somewhat crescent-shaped, but usually with the outer 
margin straight or nearly so, 2-horned, with the horns §-3 lin. long. 
Filaments of the stamens hairy or glabrous, sometimes both forms occur 
in the same involuere. Capsule 14-12 lin. in diam., exserted on a 
slender pedicel, usually glabrous, occasionally slightly puberulous ; styles 
free, suberect or spreading, 4-3 lin. long, bifid. Seeds about 1 lin. long, 
ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, with a small caruncle, at first pale 
ochreous, then with a dark brown spot at each end, finally dark grey or 
blackish.—Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 242; Boiss. in DC. 
Prodr. xy. ii, 155; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 286. 4. esula, 
Forsk, FI. 4gypt.-Arab. 94, not of Linn. J. dilatata, Hochst. ex A. 
Rich. Tent. FI, Abyss. ii. 240; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 155; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsf, Trop. Afr. 288. £. monticola, Hochst. ex A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 242; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 155; Engl. Hoch- 
gebirgsfl, Trop. Afr. 287; Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 188 ; 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss, vii. App. ii. 330.  £. kilimand- 
scharica, Pax in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 287. 2. hochstetterianca, 
Pax in Engl. Jahrb, xix. 123, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 183. 
