Euphorbia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN). 545 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: steppe near Lake Chala, 3900 ft., 
Volkens, 1781! 
82. E. cuneata, Vahl, Symb. ii. 53. A woody shrub growing to 
a height of 10-12 ft.; branches horizontally spreading, often spine- 
tipped, glabrous or at first puberulous, becoming glabrous with age ; 
bark brown or greyish. Leaves alternate, scattered along the primary 
branches and tufted on the very short secondary branchlets, usually 
3-1 in. long, rarely longer, 14-44 lin. broad, linear-cuneate, cuneately 
obovate or cuneately spathulate, rounded, truncate or notched at the 
apex, or rarely subtruncate with a short apiculus, very shortly petiolate, 
glabrous on both sides or at first minutely puberulous beneath. Cymes 
terminal and lateral, umbel-like, 4-3 in. long, including the peduncle, 
3-3 in. in diam., with 3-5 involucres or sometimes reduced to 1 
involucre, with reduced leaves at the base of the cyme and under the 
involucres, Peduncles of the cymes and the cyme-branches 1-2} lin. 
long, or the involucres sessile, puberulous or glabrous. Involucre 
2-3 lin, in diam., broadly cup-shaped, puberulous or glabrous outside, 
glabrous within, with 5 glands and 5 broad transverse subtruncate 
fringed lobes; glands peltate, concave, transversely elliptic or subor- 
bicular, entire, $-1 lin. in their greater diam. Capsule erect, 2} lin. in 
diam., minutely tomentose or puberulous; styles % lin. long, united 
below or to half-way up, with 3 stout simple or minutely bifid recurved 
or revolute branches, deciduous in fruit. Seeds } in. long, ellipsoid, not 
angular, smooth, brown.—Jaubert & Spach, Illustr. Pl. Orient. v. 71, 
t. 463; Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. i. 35, t. 4; Boiss. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 97 (including vars. Perrottetii and carpasus); Terraciano in 
Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, v. 98 and vi. 188; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
vu. App. ii. 317. 2. fruticosa, Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. 
1219. E. Perrottetii, Jaub. & Spach, Ilustr. Pl. Orient. v. 72, t. 464. 
£. carpasus, Ehrenb. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 98. Lyciopsis 
cuneata, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37. 
Nile Land, Nubia: Gebel Kuureb, Schweinfurth, 852! Uaratab Mountain, 
rena Suakin, Schweinfurth, 853! Sea-coast, Bent! Eritrea: Togodele, Ehrenberg ! 
Vicinity of Saati, Schweinfurth § Riva, 72, 268! 355! Haressan Island, Ferehan 
oleano and Achil Island, Terraciano. Somaliland: Harradigit, James §- Thrupp ! 
eb Karanle, Riva, 879 ; Uadi, Robecchi, ex Paz. 
Ki Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Dar es Salaam, Holtz, 512! 1904! 
idonga, Holtz, 1075! 
Also in Arabia. 
83. E. Currori, V. . Br. A woody shrub. Branches horizontally 
reading, spine-tipped, glabrous, with a grey bark, probably puberulous 
een young, Leaves alternate on the primary branches, clustered at 
./€ ends of the short spur-like secondary branchlets, $-} in. long, 2-3} 
'n. broad, oblanceolate, obtusely pointed or subacute, cuneately tapering 
“om above the middle to a subsessile base or very short petiole, thinly 
Puberulous on both sides. Involucre solitary, or 2-3 clustered at the 
“ity of the short lateral spur-like branchlets, on puberulous peduncles 
~1 lin, long, about 21 lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped, minutely 
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