546 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (BROWN). | Zuphorbia. 
puberulous with curved hairs, with 4 glands and 5 broad transverse 
truncate fringed lobes; glands peltate, ? lin. in their greater diam., 
transversely elliptic, concave, entire. Ovary erect, densely covered with 
very short straight hairs; styles short, stout, recurved from the base, 
truncate or bifid at the apex. Capsule and seeds not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Elephants Bay, Curror, 29! 
Very similar to #. cuneata, Vahl, but the leaves are thinner in texture, pube- 
rulous on both sides, pointed (not rounded nor truncate) at the apex and dry black, 
the fifth gland of the involucre is absent in this species, but always seems present in 
E. cuneata. 
84. E. spinescens, Pax in Lngl. Jahrb. xix. 120. A thorny woody 
shrub, leafless except on the very young growths, Branches alternate, 
stout, often somewhat zigzag, with straight horizontally spreading 
ultimate branchlets, rigid, spine-pointed, puberulous when young, 
becoming glabrous, brown. Leaves alternate on the branchlets, tufted 
on the very short lateral tubercle-like flowering-spurs, }-} in. long, 
4-} in. broad, cuneately-obovate, very obtusely rounded at the apex, 
tapering from above the middle into a very short petiole, glabrous on 
both sides. Bracts under the involucres 1}—2 lin. long, }-# lin. broad, 
sessile, resembling reduced leaves, slightly ciliate, soon deciduous. 
Involucres solitary on the flowering-tubercles, scattered along the 
branchlets, subsessile or on peduncles 3-3 lin. long, cup-shaped, about 
2} lin. in diam., glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate or rect- 
angular long-fringed lobes; glands distant, somewhat trumpet-shaped, 
but open nearly to the base on the inner side, about 3 lin. long and 
4-} lin. in diam. Ovary exserted on a pedicel about as long as the 
involucre, tomentose ; styles stout, about 2 lin. long, shortly united at 
the base, then spreading, with revolute tips. Capsule exserted on a 
pedicel, not much exceeding the involucre and staminal remains, 
tomentose. 
Mozamb. Distr.s German East Africa: steppe near Pangani swamp, J aagers 
99! Masai steppe, Jaeger, 60! 98! Fischer, 524! near Same, in Pare district, 
Uhlig, 95! , 
Allied to E. cuneata, Vahl, but with stouter dark brown branches and solitary 
involucres. It is quoted by Pax under £. jegeriana, Pax (= E. matabereness 
Pax), but is totally different from that species in its mode of branching, glare” 
leaves and solitary glabrous involucres, with entirely different glands. 
85. E. matabelensis, Pax in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. uber 
xv. 51, ¢. 2, fig. A. A woody branching spiny shrub up to 10 ft. igh, 
with leaves only on the very young parts or when flowering. eer 
usually in whorls of 3, radiating from the apex of a branch of or P 
vious year, usually spine-pointed, minutely puberulous or velvety, we y 
glabrous, grey or brown. Leaves alternate or tufted, 4-1} in. 10 & 
1-6 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate to cuneately obovate, acute, 3m 
tapering from above the middle into a short petiole, giebeow a “a 
except on the basal half of the midrib, softly pubescent to near y oi é 
rous beneath. Inflorescence of 1-5 pedunculate or sometimes 80 se 
