dd4 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA (BROWN). [ Luphorbia.. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kageyi, on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 
514! Masaini, Fischer, 515! Umbugweand Iraku, on the edge of the Rift, Merker, 
127! near a plantation at Dar-es-Salaam, Hedde, 6! 
Easily recognised by the dome-like white-woolly mass of bracteoles filling the 
involucre. 
99. E. Cameronii, V. #. Br. Probably ashrub, only 2 branchlets 
seen, about 5 in. long and 14-2 lin. thick, terete, naked, marked with 
small alternate crescent-shaped leaf-scars, probably succulent when 
young, glabrous. Leaves not seen. Inflorescence apparently terminal, 
but only 3 detached involucres seen, embraced by their bracts and on 
peduncles 1 lin. long. Bracts large, white, very conspicuous, widely 
spreading, 3-3 in. long, } in. broad, sessile, orbicular-ovate, folded 
together and slightly recurved at the acute or apiculate apex, glabrous. 
Involuere solitary, sessile, 21 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 
5 glands and 5 erect transversely oblong fringed lobes; glands 1-1} 
lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, very distinctly 2-lipped, 
with the inner lip about half as large as the outer. Ovary (not seen 
mature) with 3 convex faces and 3 slender ribs between them, glabrous, 
with a small cupular entire calyx at the base; styles 1 lin. long, united 
nearly to the top, with very short stout arms, minutely lobed at the 
apex. Fruit and seeds not seen. 
: Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Ntondwe, Cameron; 
53! 
This appears to be a very showy plant when in flower, and would be well worth 
cultivating. The involucral bracts are as large as or larger than those of E, splendews,- 
Boj., and quite as conspicucus, but are white instead of bright red. 
100. E. nubica, V. 2. Br. A succulent bush up to 6 ft. high, 
leafless except on the very young branches, spineless, glabrous. Brancie® 
alternate, more or less clustered, subparallel or very little divergent, 
24-12 in. long, 14-3 lin. thick, terete, with prominent leaf-scars. 
Leaves not seen, soon deciduous. Umbels terminal, of 3-7 sim sae de 
3—3 in. long, each bearing 1 involucre, glabrous ; when young igre 
whorl of thin green oblong acute bracts at the base of the umbel shoul 
as long as the peduncle-like rays and a pair under each involucre @ ‘il 
2 lin. long and 14-2 lin. broad, orbicular-obovate, obtuse, apiculate, 
soon deciduous. Involucre } in. in diam., broadly and shallowly bys 
shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 transverse scarcely too = ter” 
ciliate but sometimes 2-lobed lobes; glands 1-1} lin. in thet or in 
diam., transversely elliptic or suborbicular. Capsule about } in. ie 
diam., obtusely 3-angled, far exserted on a pedicel ultimately + - pe 
more long, glabrous; styles 1 lin. long, shortly united at the base, 
spreading, bifid at the apex with the lobes widely diverging: late- 
about 1? lin. long, ellipsoid, with a small caruncle, faintly tubercu” 
rugulose, whitish.—Z. Schimperi, Schweinf. in Bull. 
App. ii. 317, partly ; Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. 25, fig. 4, not of *™ 
Wile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent! Eritrea: near Acrut Schwews 
§ Riva, 1683! : 
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