Euphorbia. CXXII, EUPHORBIACEX (BROWN). BYE 
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Wile Land. Abyssinia: by streams in the valleys of Wogara district, Schimper, 
1281! by streams in Shoa and Wojerat, Petit, and without precise locality, Quartin- 
Dillon & Petit, 86! Gallaland ; Abo Wadela, Steudner, 553, ex Engler. British 
East Africa: 2nd day’s march from Eldama Ravine, Whyte! Aberdare Mountains, 
James ! Mau Escarpment, Baker, 82 (104)! 
69. E. arguta, Soland. in Russell, Nat. Hist. Aleppo, ed. 2, ii. 253. 
Annual, 3-15 in. high; stem simple or branching at the base, divided 
at the top into an umbel of 3-5 rays, with or without 1 or more rays in 
the axils of the upper stem-leaves, thinly pilose with long fine hairs, 
‘Sometimes almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate, oblong- 
lanceolate, obovate or cuneately oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, sharply 
serrate, thinly pilose on one or both sides (at least along the midrib) to 
nearly glabrous. Stipules none. Rays of the umbel 23-5 in. long, 
cymosely 2-4 times divided. Bracts opposite or 3 in a whorl, sessile, 
ovate, usually acute, broadly rounded to subcordate at the base, serrate, 
glabrous on both sides or slightly pilose at the very base. Involucre 
solitary, sessile or subsessile, about 1} lin. in diam., cup-shaped, with 
4 glands and 5 transversely rectangular or subquadrate fringed lobes, 
glabrous ; glands 4-3 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, 
entire. Capsule erect, 2 lin. in diam., glabrous; styles variable, 4-3 
lin. long, free to the base, bifid at the apex. Seeds about 1} lin. Jong, 
ellipsoid, nearly smooth, but with a very faint indication of reticulation, 
dark brown, with a shortly stalked peltate circular caruncle.—Sibth. 
Fil. Grea, v. t.468; Boiss. in DC. Prody. xv. ii.117. #. calendulefolia, 
Delile, FI. Egypte, 89, t. 30, fig. 1. Zithymalus calendulefolius, Klotzsch 
‘& Garcke in Abh. Akad. Berl, 1860, 74. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Wady Halfa, Scott-Elliot, 3419! 
Also in Egypt, Asia Minor and South-east Europe. 
70, EB. depauperata, Hochst. ex A. Rich: Tent. Fl. Abyss. ti. 241, 
Rootastock perennial, woody. Stems 2 to several, herbaceous, or, if not 
unt by the annual fires, enduring for 2 or more years and becoming 
Woody and naked below, simple or branched, 4 to 36 in. high, glabrous, 
ns A ap ai with a whorl of 4—5 at the base of the umbel, 3-3 in, 
m wie ~7 lin, broad, varying from linear-lanceolate or lanceolate to 
sg or suborbicular, acute or obtuse, narrowed or rounded into a 
aad — or subsessile, those of the whorl sessile and usually shorter 
ae resis than the stem-leaves, glabrous on both sides. Stipules 
j-2 hi mbel 4-2} in. in diam., with 4-5 simple or once divided rays 
‘ th long, often with 1 or more similar rays arising from the axils 
delice eaves below the umbel. Bracts 3-4 lin. long, 4~6 lin. broad, 
se ah reniform-ovate, very broadly ovate or transversely elliptic 
each Mss id apiculate. Involucre solitary or more rarely 2-3 on 
bbescen: 2-24 lin, in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, woolly- 
hotehed ‘hk ithin, with 4-5 glands and 5 subquadrate entire or slightly 
dhlon ciliate lobes ; glands {-1} in. in their greater diam., transversely 
sli ‘9 Si elliptic, entire, peltate, with the inner margin incurved or 
wtued 2-lipped in dried specimens. Capsule far exserted, erect, 24-3 
