548 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (BROWN). | Zuphorbia. 
seen, probably small and very deciduous, leaving crescent-shaped scars. 
Involucres solitary, sessile along the branches in the axils of the leaf- 
scars, male or hermaphrodite, 14-24 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, with 4 
glands and 5 subquadrate fringed lobes, glabrous outside, pubescent 
under the glands within, surrounded at the base by about 6 suborbicular 
or broadly ovate bud-scales, very obtuse or rounded at the apex, ciliate 
on the margin, with the outer much smaller and more coriaceous than 
the inner; glands 3-1 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic- 
oblong, nearly straight on the inner margin, entire or faintly crenulate 
on the outer. Staminal bracteoles pubescent, but not conspicuously 
woolly. Ovary at first partly included and finally far exserted from the 
involucre on a slender recurved pedicel, subglobose, glabrous, with a 
very rudimentary calyx; styles 2-3 lin. long, united for 4 of their 
length, then recurved-spreading, rather stout, shortly bifid at the apex. 
Capsule 4 in. in diam., with 3 rounded lobes as seen from above, 
exserted on a curved pedicel 4-3 in. long, glabrous. Seeds 24 lin. long, 
ellipsoid, smooth, with a circular or mushroom-shaped caruncle, peltate 
on a very slender stalk.—Z. gynophora, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 374. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa, without precise locality, Fischer, 289! 
between Kisuani and Madji-ya-juu, Engler, 1579! 1586! British Central Africa: 
Nyasaland; Magomero, south of Lake Shirwa, Meller ! Rhodesia ; Buluwayo, Chubb, 
345! Victoria, Monro, 319! 
E. gynophora, Pax, is founded upon fruiting specimens of LZ. espinosd. This 
species is distinguished from EZ. matabelensis and E. inelegans, N. KE. Br. by its 
pubescent (not woolly) staminal bracteoles and long-stalked capsules. 
88. E. nodosa, V.£. Br. “ A leaflesstree of 10 to 25 ft., with erect 
trunk from 1 to 5 inches in diam. Outer bark often peeling 0% . 
Branches virgate, but erect” (Gossweiler). Branches 2-3 lin. thick, 
tuberculate with prominent flowering cushions 1-2 lin. in diam., aD 
marked with crescent-shaped scars of fallen leaves, glabrous, brown. 
Leaves evidently very deciduous, perhaps scale-like, not seen. Flower- 
Ing-cushions axillary, tubercle-like, apparently producing flowers for 
two or more years in succession. Involucres solitary or 2-3 together, 
sessile, 2-2} lin. in diam., cup-shaped, with 5 glands and 5 transvers y 
rectangular fringed lobes, glabrous outside and within and surroun : 
by 9-12 adpressed bud-scales, imbricating in about 3 series, with the 
outer series very small and coriaceous and the inner larger an thin, 
broadly rounded, ciliate ; glands 3-1 lin. broad in their greater ara 
transversely oblong, entire, greenish-yellow. Capsule about $ in. “I 
diam., glabrous, exserted on a recurved (or perhaps finally erect) goin 
23-4 lin. long; styles 4 lin. long, recurved-spreading, bifid at the ett 
Seeds 2-2} lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, grey, with @ trapsve 
yellow caruncle, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Gossweiler, 435! 449! abundant @ 
the River Cavaco, east of Benguella, Gossweiler, 1695! 
tong 
? ft. 
_ 89, BE. Grosseri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 288. A tree ee 
high. Branchlets 4-} in. thick, apparently fleshy when young, P00 
