560 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (BROWN). | Zuphorbia. 
pocket-like cavity at the base, rather thin in texture, white-puberulous 
on the inner face and back, ciliate. Capsule 14 lin. in diam., with a 
distinct circular rim-like calyx at its base, puberulous, exserted on a 
rather stout pedicel about twice as long as the involucre; styles ? lin. 
long, shortly united at the base, minutely bifid at the apex. Seeds 
nearly 1 lin. long, 4-angularly pyramidal, truncate at the base, with 2 
large pits on each face, giving the appearance of a double constriction, 
and abruptly constricted into the acute apex, glabrous, dark brown. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: east of the River Shebeli, Donaldson-Smith, 311! 
Web Karanle, Riva, 1002! 
E. napoides only differs from the Arabian EH. hadramautica, Baker (syn. 
E. oblongicaulis, Baker), by the stem being distinctly tuberculate and the pedicel of 
the ovary rather longer and more slender than in that species, otherwise it is quite 
the same. 
111, E. rubella, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 287. Stem probably 
solitary, erect, 11 in. high in the type, nearly } in. thick, probably 
stouter when alive, cylindric, fleshy, slightly tuberculate when dried, 
bearing a crown of 5 or 6 leaves at the apex, glabrous. Leaves erectly 
spreading, 8-11 lin. long, including the 14-2 lin.-long petiole, }~} in. 
broad, elliptic, obtuse, apiculate, rounded to acute at the base, glabrous 
on both sides, purple beneath and more or less suffused with it above. 
Peduncles arising from the apex of the stem outside the tuft of leaves, 
3-3 in. long, slender, bearing a small cyme of 1 sessile and 2 shortly 
pedunculate involucres at its apex, glabrous. Bracts 14-2 lin. long, 
broadly obovate, abruptly cuspidate-apiculate at the obtuse apex, thin 
and veiny. Involucres 3—1 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 
glands and 5 subquadrate lobes cut into 3-4 long teeth at the apex; 
glands about } lin. in their greater diam., transverse, narrowly oblong, 
peltate, with a depressed centre, entire. Ovary exserted and finally re- 
curved on a pedicel 14 lin. long, glabrous ; styles 4 lin. long, free to oe 
base, ascending, deeply bifid at the apex, with thickened or capitate 
stigmas. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Haquim Mountain, near Harar, Ellenbeck, sis 
In habit this is very similar to EZ. hadramautica, Baker, but has broader and 
glabrous leaves and different cymes. 
112. E. Poissoni, Pax in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1902, 
A succulent much branched bush “of grotesque appearance, 5 ft. bi ] 
(Barter). Branches cylindric, 1}-14 in. thick, somewhat obscure 7 
areolate, scarcely tuberculate when alive, but apparently so when sie 
glabrous, greyish, naked or bearing 5-6 deciduous leaves at the “Be in 
the branches, spineless. Leaves spreading, 23-54 in. long, hg 
broad, cuneately obovate, rather deeply notched or shortly ie the 
the apex, with the lobes broadly rounded and a minute apwulue fa f 
notch, tapering below into a very short stout petiole, thick and nich : 
glabrous, green. Inflorescence at first consisting of a single ie sae 
ultimately developing into a small cyme 4-2 in. in diam. drt. 3 
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mens, very shortly and stoutly pedunculate or subsessile 10 the axils 
