Euphorbia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACER® (BROWN). 559 
of the cyme or terminal, narrowly campanulate or obconic and about 
1} lin. in diam., with 2 glands and 5 erect oblong or subquadrate 
deeply-fringed lobes, glabrous; glands 13 lin. long, erect, resembling a 
narrow slightly flattened tube, slit down the inner side nearly to the 
base, with incurved margins when dried, minutely toothed at the trun- 
cate apex, yellow. Ovary exserted ona pedicel bent nearly at a right angle, 
erect in fruit, glabrous ; styles 14 lin. long, connate almost or quite to the 
very apex into a slender upcurved column, which is divided into 6 or 
fewer minute stigmas. Capsule } in. in diam. Seeds 13-2 lin. long, 
ovoid, subacute at one end, smooth, encircled by 3 series of slight bumps, 
scarcely tubercles.—Boiss. Ic. Euphorb. 16, t. 47. #. longetuberculata, 
Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xy. ii. 1264. Tithymalus Brauni, Schweinf. in 
Journ, Bot. 1863, 295, and Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 38. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: mountains near Gursarfa, 3300-3500 ft., Schimper, 
2307 ! near Goelleb, Schimper, 221! Somaliland: limestone rocks on the maritime 
plain, Thomson, 89! Somadu, Hllenbeck, 276! 
Also in Arabia. 
109. BE. Pirottz, Terrace. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, v.97. A 
dwarf perennial herb, Main stem 1 in. or more high, simple, thick and 
turnip-shaped, marked with leaf-scars, then densely dichotomously 
branched, striate, pilose; branches slender, diverging. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, cuneate at the base, tapering into a long petiole. Cymes sub- 
sessile at the apex of the branches, Involucres few, on long peduncles, 
shortly campanulate, many-toothed, pilose, white-hairy within. Pe- 
duncles (? pedicels) recurved in fruit. Capsule deeply sulcate-trigonous, 
with rounded angles, densely hairy ; styles short, united at the base, 
bifid at the apex. Seeds cylindric-subtrigonous, compressed at the apex, 
Somewhat rounded on the back and transversely and irregularly greyish- 
undulated (2 rugose), with the other sides only undulated at the margins. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Midir Island in Hamfila Bay, Terracciano. 
ALO. B. napoides, Pax in Ann. [stit. Bot. Roma, vi. 187. Peren- 
nial. Stem erect, 1-14 in. high, 4-3 in. thick, unbranched, cylindric, 
fleshy, covered with small tubercles, from which the leaves and cymes 
anise, naked below, bearing a cluster of leaves and cymes at the very 
obtuse or subtruncate apex, glabrous. Leaves 1}-2 in. long (or perhaps 
onger as the tips are all broken off in the specimen seen), #—1 lin. broad, 
sear, longitudinally folded and more or less incurved, entire, petiolate, 
tnly and minutely pubescent, glabrous to the eye. Cymes (including 
the }-3 in.-long peduncle) 3-11 in. or less long, once-forked, with an 
;nYolucre in the fork and 1-2 on each branch or sometimes reduced to 
“aring only 1 involucre with the lateral branches suppressed, pube- 
rulous with minute white curved hairs. Bracts sessile, about 1} lin. iong, 
In. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, concave, 
P!™erulous on both sides. Involucres sessile, cup-shaped, white-pube- 
rulous, 1 lin. in diam., with 4 glands and 5 subquadrate toothed or bifid 
al > glands incurved-erect in dried specimens, perhaps spreading when 
“Ive, suborbicular and 3-Llin. in diam.,with a very shallow dark-coloured 
