544 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (BROWN). [ Luphorbia. 
Lower Guinea... German South-west Africa: between Okahandya and 
Swakopmund, Dinter, 192! Omatako, Dinter, 1382! Omburo, Dinter, 1406! 
Modderfontein, Dinter, 1571! Salem or Tsaobis, Dinter, 198. 
80. E. jatrophoides, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 287. A woody 
shrub 4-6 ft. high. Branches 1-2 lin. thick in the type specimen, 
minutely pulverulent when young, brown. Leaves alternate on the 
elongated branches, tufted on the short lateral spurs, 4-1} in. long, }-} 
in. broad near the apex, cuneate-obovate, obtuse to nearly truncate 
and apiculate at the apex, gradually tapering from near the top to the 
sessile or subpetiolate base, glabrous above, minutely puberulous beneath, 
Cymes pedunculate, 3-14 in. long, once or twice forked, arranged ina 
terminal umbel about 14-14in.in diam., glabrous. Bracts }-} in. long, 
broadly cuneate, subtruncate, very minutely and densely ciliate when 
young, but scarcely or not at all puberulous beneath, rather thin and 
apparently yellowish-green. Involucres all male in the specimens seen, 
globose when young, becoming basin-shaped, 24-3 lin. in diam., glabrous, 
green, with 4-5 glands and 5 subquadrate fringed lobes; glands 13-1} 
lin. in their greater diam., peltate, transversely elliptic, entire. Ovary 
and capsule not seen, 
Wile Land. Somaliland: between Arovis and Rufa, Ellenbeck, 1081! and 
between Wabi and Budugo, EHilenbeck, 1164! ; 
This resembles E. cuneata, Vahl, but the branchlets do not appear to be spine- 
pointed and the leaves are puberulous beneath. Described from the type specimens. 
81. E. lyciopsis, Pax in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 242. A eee 
shrub, Branches alternate, very spreading, mostly spine-tpP io 
minutely puberulous to nearly glabrous, whitish or pale grey, leafy @ 
the time of flowering. Leaves alternate on the primary, vite 
the secondary or rudimentary branchlets, minutely petiolate, + = 
long, 1-3 lin. broad, narrowly linear-oblong or cuneate-oblong, obtuse, 
apiculate, obtuse at the base, or tapering into the petiole, eine a 
glabrous on both sides witha puberulous petiole or sometimes puberuiou 
on the base of the midrib beneath. Stipules none. Involucre colt 
mostly axillary or on rudimentary axillary shoots scattered along b 
branchlets, sometimes terminal, usually sessile, surrounded at the base 
about 5 spreading cuneate-obovate obtuse minutely ciliate practs 3- e- 
lin. long and }—$ lin. broad, but sometimes on short axillary pote 
like branchlets 14-2 lin. long, with the bracts spaced along them, " 
or broadly cup-shaped, 14-2 lin. in diam., minutely and thinly Pe nds 
lous, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate fringe-toothed lobes; § ai . 
erect, about } lin, long and 3-3 lin. in diam., in dried nee re- 
obliquely cup-shaped or funnel-shaped with the margin slighty ol 
curved, but perhaps flatter, half circular and but slightly concave ort, 
alive. Ovary immature, densely pubescent or tomentose ; styles * $ 
free, erect, stout, entire or notched at the apex. Capsule an 
not seen.—Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 533. 1 Kibwezir 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Tarro (Taro?), Kassner, eet 
common, Scott-Elliot, 2352! 
