564 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (BROWN). | Luphorbia. 
with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong lobes, broadly cuneate at their 
base and deeply fringe-toothed at the truncate top; glands 13-2 lin. in 
their greater diam., transverse, with a very rounded outer and straight 
raised or rim-like inner margin, entire. Ovary acutely 3-angled, with 
a calyx of 3 minute rounded lobes about +} lin. long at its base, glabrous, 
on avery short stout pedicel, with only the styles exserted beyond the 
level of the stamens at the time of flowering; styles } lin. long, united 
for about } of their length, then spreading, with thickened channelled 
tor] 
truncate stigmas. Capsule and seeds not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Regent, Scott-Elliot, 4112! 
118. E. graciliramea, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 78. A leafless 
spiny succulent. The type consists of 5 simple fleshy branches 5-63 in. 
long and } in. thick, but probably stouter when alive, somewhat 4-angled, 
from opposite pairs of short teeth running out into long spines and 
decurrent below, but without horny margins. Leaves rudimentary, 
minute, scale-like. Spines 1-2 in. long, opposite, widely spreading, 
solitary, with 2 minute prickles at the base of each, grey. Flowering- 
eyes in the axils of the spines. Involucres 3 together, sessile, 14-14 lin. 
in diam., broadly obconic, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 erect sub- 
quadrate fringe-toothed lobes; glands contiguous, about § lin, in their 
greater diam., transversely oblong, entire. Ovary glabrous, with a 
small cupular subtruncate calyx at its base, shortly pedicellate, perhaps 
ultimately exserted ; styles 2 lin. long, united at the base, then recurved- 
spreading, with rather large capitate entire stigmas. 
East Africa (German or British 2): without precise locality, Fischer, 522! 
119. E. triaculeata, Morsk. Fl. Hgypt.Arab. 94. A bushy leafless 
spiny succulent, 5-20 in. high. Stems or branches 3-5 lin. thick (dried), 
3-5- (rarely 7-) angled; angles sometimes very prominent, compressé 
(in dried specimens), with deep notches, forming triangular teeth 
(? tubercles when alive) nearly as long as broad, sometimes but slightly 
prominent and more rib-like, with slightly raised teeth, each margine 
with a horny grey linear shield having a short lobe on each side at its 
apex, bearing 1 straight needle-like spine }—1} in. long with a par iF 
prickles 4-13 lin. long at its base. Cymes small, solitary in the axils 0 
the teeth, with 3 involucres, subsessile. Bracts scale-like, about § lin- 
long, ovate or suborbicular, concave, obtuse, minutely toothed. ne 
lucre 13-2 lin. in diam., perhaps larger when alive, broadly funne™ 
shaped, glabrous, with the glands united into an entire or aie” : 
spreading rim, rarely partly free, surrounding 5-6 transversely rec a 
gular or subquadrate fringed lobes. Ovary not exserted in the specime . 
seen, glabrous; styles 3 lin. long, very shortly united at the bas : 
slender, entire and slightly thickened at the apex. Capsule and . 
not seen.—Vahl, Symb, ii. 53; Willd. Sp. PJ. ii. 884; Boiss. "a ac 
Prodr. xv. ii, 85; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 36, and in Bull. “0° 
Boiss. vii. App. ii. 328; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 78; Bergen ©" 
Euphorb. 88, Z. triacantha, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 79, 2° 
