542 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (BROWN). | Luphorbia. 
probable that when better known it will be found to be only a variety of that species. 
In appearance it is quite like the variety minor, and only to be distinguished by 
the involucre-glands. 
77. E. cyparissioides, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 123. Perennial, 
with a woody rootstock, producing a cluster of several or many erect 
herbaceous terete stems 10-12 in. high, 3-1 lin. thick, simple or branch- 
ing at the top, glabrous. Leaves alternate on the stem and branches, 
whorled or opposite under the cyme or umbel or at the flowering nodes, 
reflexed or the upper spreading, 3-1} in. long, 3-3 lin. broad, sessile, 
linear, acute or obtuse, mucronate, with revolute margins, glabrous on 
both sides, possibly glaucous. Stipules none. Involucres solitary or 
congested in small head-like cymes, terminal, very shortly pedunculate, 
about 1} lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, with 5 (rarely ) 
glands and 5 transversely rectangular or subquadrate fringed lobes ; 
glands 3-3? lin. in their greater diam., transverse, with the outer margin 
straight or obtusely many-toothed or crenulate. Capsule exserted 
much beyond the involucre, erect, } in. in diam. at the base, slightly 
narrowing above, glabrous. Seeds 14-13 lin. long, ellipsoid, smooth, 
with a small rugose caruncle, pale grey, sometimes irregularly spotted 
with brown.—De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 289; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 951. . genistoides, Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 952, not of Berg. Z. ericifolia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 
Xxxill. 288. ZH. hwillensis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 27. 
_ Nile Land. Dar Fertit: at Dem Gudyu, Schweinfurth, Ser. iii. 149! Niam- 
niam: at the River Ibba, Schweinfurth, 3979 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; between Quisonde and Cone 
Welwitsch, 286!- Huilla; near Lopoilo, Welwitsch, 285! Dekindt, 1029! Malange 
Buchner, 677 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: between Lake Nyasa and the Congo, 
Descamps (ex De Wildeman). 
Mozamb. Distr. (ierman East Africa : without precise locality, pe oer 
97! Rhodesia: Northern Melsetter, Swynnerton, 6217! Rusapi, Engler, 311°" 
Kafulafula River, Rogers, 8408 ! 
Var. minor, N. E. Br. Stems 4-10 in. high, lin. thi 
long, usually rather few and 3-3 in. apart, ee or reflexed, linear to me 
or ovate, with revolute margins, glaucous. Involucres sometimes 2-5 in wor ; 
terminal cyme, sometimes congested into small head-like cymes 2-3 '?- are the 
glands 4-1 lin. in their greater diam., very variable, transversely elliptic w! pers 
outer margin slightly irregular, or nearly as long as broad with the outer pe ‘e 
crenately several toothed or 3-lobed, or transversely oblong with the outer part 
produced into a minute tooth at each end and either straight or with 4 third 0 
tooth or crenation between, yellow ; otherwise as in the type. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near the Cunene River, Johnsto 
Kubango River, Gossweiler, 1857! 1926! by the Quango River, Poggé: 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Gazaland; inyaae 
2500 ft., Swynnerton, 1533! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; — er" Bwana 
and Karonga, Whyte! Rhodesia; between Broken Hill xine A hills 
M’Cuba copper-mine, Allen, 354! near Melsetter, Swynnerton, 6043 - 95! 
near Haroni River, Swynnerton, 1529! North-west Rhodesia, ee ig z r this 
Like several species which produce annual stems from 4 perennial — 
ck. Leaves 2-5 lin. 
nt near the 
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