572 -CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (BROWN). [ Euphorbia. 
cone at the base, then spreading-recurved, thickened at the apex. 
Capsule about 1} lin.in diam. Seeds not seen. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Taita district, at Buitchuma, Hildebrandt, 
2859! Inepangu ma chumpe swano, Kassner, 480! Voi, Mildbraed, 12! 
135, E. heterochroma, Pax in Engl. Pl. Ost-Afr. C. 242. A 
spiny ‘succulent leafless bush 14-6 ft. high, branching at the base. 
Branches ascending, when young $-1 in. in diam., less when dried, 
4—5-angled, usually with distant slight constrictions, sides concave, be- 
coming nearly flat with age, glabrous, light green, slightly glaucous; 
angles slightly compressed, with the margins even or more orless distinctly 
sinuate-toothed, sometimes on the same branch and the spine-shields 
sometimes united into a continuous dark brown or grey horny border, 
sometimes interrupted at the flowering-eyes. Leaves rudimentary, 
scale-like, about ? lin. long, ovate, acute. Spines 4-3 lin. long, some 
times obsolete, in pairs }-3 in. apart, diverging, with or without a pair 
of minute prickles or points near their base, dark grey. Flowering- 
eyes 1-2} lin. above the spine-pairs. Cymes sessile or subsessile, solitary, 
with 3 or fewer involucres. Central, involucre male, sessile, deciduous, 
lateral on peduncles (cyme-branches) 4-1 lin. long, hermaphrodite, 
14-12 lin. in diam., somewhat obconic, glabrous, with 5-6 subquadrate 
or transversely rectangular toothed lobes; glands contiguous or only 
separated by cut-like notches or united into a continuous ™m, when 
separate 3-1 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, entire, 
yellow. Capsule about 2 lin. in diam., 3-angled or somewhat 3-lobed 
as seen from above, glabrous, exserted much beyond the involucre ee 
slender curved pedicel 1 in. long ; styles 3-1 lin. long, shortly united a 
the base, then spreading, slender, with thickened or subcapitate tips. 
Seeds smooth.—Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 532, and xxxiv. 83; oe 
in Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ii. 266; Berger, Sukk. Raphee 
60. £. Stuhlmannii, Schweinf. ex Volkens in Notizbl. Konigl. ser 
Gart. Berlin, ii. 267, not of Pax; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 70 (not 0! 
xxii. 535). HL. impervia, Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. 64. BE. Staph 
Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. 59. 
Wile Land. Uganda: cultivated at Entebbe, Brown, 227! Menjo, Stuhl 
1301! British East Africa: Gimba Mountain, near Voi, UAlig ! : 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; by the Himo moh 
2900 ft., Volkens, 1759! near Rorchoto Village, Uhlig, 242 ! Usambara; mat os 
of Pare Mountains, 2200 ft., Uhlig, 8114! near Pangani, Stuhlmann, 70° 
without precise locality, Fischer, 182! 
Var. mitis, N, E. Br. Stems 4-2 in. in diam. in the type, but having : ro 
served in alcohol are much shrunk, 4-angled, with flattish sides ; angles no ited into 
with the narrow linear spine-shields sometimes quite separate, sometimes ily bestiog 
a continuous horny dark brown margin to the angles, spineless or occasion fe diam 
a very minute pair of prickles below the leaf-scars, Involucre about 1 are long: 
Capsule 1} lin. in diam., exserted on a recurved pedicel } in. long 5 styles 5 lin. 
Otherwise as in the type—E. mitis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 70. 
Mozamb. Distr.—(erman East Africa: at the foot of the Pare 
between Madji-ya-juu and Sengina, 2200 ft., Eugler, 1613! 
manny 
Mountains, 
