Euphorbia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (BROWN). 541 
2-21 lin, in diam., glabrous ; styles about 1 lin. long, united at the base, 
with spreading bifid tips. Seeds 14 lin. long, cylindric-oblong, smooth, 
black, with a yellow caruncle, slightly shining. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Chimanimani Mountains, 7000 ft., 
Swynnerton, 1526! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mlanji Plateau, 6000 ft., 
Whyte, 24! Tuchila Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Purves, 99! 
75. E. Wellbyi, V. /. Br. Perennial, with a woody rootstock, 
producing a clump of erect unbranched stems 5-7 in. high and 4-3 lin. 
thick, very rough below from the prominent scars of fallen leaves, leafy 
above, puberulous below the base of each leaf. Stem-leaves alternate, 
ascending and loosely imbricating, sessile, }-4 in. long, 1-24 lin. broad, 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute and as if pinched together into an 
apiculus at the apex, more or less rounded at the base, glabrous on both 
sides. Floral leaves or bracts whorled at the base of the inflorescence, 
opposite under the involucres, 2—5 lin. long, 23-34 lin. broad at the 
base, somewhat triangular-ovate to broadly reniform-ovate, acute, very 
broadly tuneate to subruncate at the base, otherwise as the stem- 
leaves, Stipules none. Umbel terminal, about } in. in diam., with 5 
short puberulous rays, each with 1-2 short secondary rays. Involucre 
13-12 lin. in diam., somewhat pear-shaped, glabrous outside, with 4 
glands and 5 small oblong minutely ciliate lobes ; glands about 4 lin. in 
their greater diam., somewhat crescent-shaped, with 2 long subulate 
horns. Ovary glabrous; styles 4 lin. (or perhaps more finally) long, 
free almost to the base, very shortly bifid. Capsule and seeds not seen, 
but the former evidently exserted on a pedicel twice as long as the 
mvolucre and erect. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Hawash and Maki Rivers, Wellby ! 
76. -EB. dejecta, V. Z. Br. Perennial, with a thick woody root- 
stock, producing clumps of herbaceous stems 23-10 in. high, 3~1 lin. 
thick, branching at the top, glabrous. Leaves very numerous, alternate, 
except at the flowering nodes, sessile, reflexed, }-? in. long, 3-1 lin. 
road, linear, acute or obtuse, mucronate, with revolute margins, 
glabrous on both sides, Stipules none. Involucres solitary and terminal 
or 2-6 in a small terminal eyme or umbel, often mingled with very short 
ensely leafy shoots, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, about 2 lin. in 
‘am., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate 
tinged lobes; glands about 2 lin. in their greater diam., transversely 
odlong, entire or slightly notched at the middle of the outer margin and 
With 2 long subulate horns. Capsule exserted on a long slender pedicel, 
at first reflexed, finally erect, 24 lin. in diam., glabrous; styles about 
: at long, free to the base, bifid at the apex. Seeds ellipsoid, smooth, 
rous, 
at peozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Tanganyika Plateau 
ort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte! Fwambo, Carson, 12, probably belongs here, 
Ut flowers are wanting. 
; ice the form of the involucre-glands has hitherto been considered to be a good 
¢ character, I have not united this with Z. cyparissioides, although I think it 
