uphorbia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (BROWN). 547 
involucres in a small cyme or head-like cluster at the apex of very short 
dJateral spur- or tubercle-like branchlets. Peduncles 14-23 lin. long, 
puberulous or velvety, bearing a pair of obovate bracts 2-24 lin. long, 
1}-1} lin. broad, glabrous above, puberulous beneath, ciliate. Involucre 
2}-3 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, pubescent or tomentose outside, glabrous 
within, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rectangular or subquadrate 
fringed lobes; glands large, contiguous, peltate, turned outwards, 
1}-1§ lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic or suborbicular, 
yellow or green. Staminal bracteoles conspicuously woolly. Capsule 
4} lin, in diam., densely pubescent or subtomentose, erect on a stout 
pedicel not longer than the remains of the stamens. Seeds about } in. 
in diam., subglobose, smooth.—Gibbs in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxxvii. 468. 
LE, jegeriana, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 87. 
_ Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: steppe west of Lake Eiassi, Jaeger, 
339! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; near Tsenga (Magunga), Kirk ! 
Rhodesia: near Victoria Falls, Galpin, 7056! Monro, 424! Rogers, 53806! between 
Melsetter and Umtali and other parts of Mashonaland, Swynnerton, 691! 6611! 
Matopo Hills, Wiss Gibbs, 24! Matabeleland, Penther, 944! 
. The remarkable 3-forked manner of branching and spine-tipped branchlets readily 
distinguish this from all other species. 
86. E. inelegans, V.#. Br. A woody branching shrub up to 10or 
12 ft. high, with no leaves at the time of flowering. Branches alternate, 
not spine-tipped, marked with alternate leaf-scars, very minutely 
puberulous, finally glabrous, pale brown becoming grey. Leaves not 
seen. Inflorescence a head-like cluster of 5 shortly pedunculate in- 
volucres at the apex of the 3-6 in.-long flowering branchlets. Peduncles 
about } in. long, minutely puberulous, with a pair of obovate bracts 
about 24 lin. long and 14 lin. broad, glabrous on both sides, minutely 
ciliate, having a very young involucre in the axil of each, which may 
ultimately develop. Involucre about } in. in diam., cup-shaped, very 
minutely puberulous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rectangular or 
subquadrate fringed lobes; glands large, peltate, contiguous, turned 
outwards, 1} lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic or sub- 
orbicular. Staminal bracteoles conspicuously woolly. Capsule (immature) 
Just exserted from the involucre, erect, minutely tomentose; styles 
about } lin. long, free or nearly so, stout, recurved-spreading, entire or 
bifid. Seeds not seen.—/. matabelensis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 341, 
not of Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 51, t. 2, fig. A. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usufua ; Songwe Valley, 3600 ft., 
Goetze, 1052! 
.,. Fhis has been confused by Pax with Z. matabelensis, from which it conspicuously 
differs in its alternate spineless branches. 
ecBds Ee espinosa, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 120. A woody branch- 
ag shrub, leafless at the time of flowering. Branches alternate, sub- 
©Pposite or subverticellate, ascending to very widely spreading, moderately 
Straight, 1-2 lin. thick, slightly tuberculate at the nodes with flower- 
Scars $1 lin, in diam., not spine-tipped, glabrous, brown, Leaves not 
