Euphorbia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (BROWN). d77 
toothed at the top; glands 4-2 lin. in their greater diam., transverse, 
somewhat kidney-shaped, entire. Young ovary glabrous; styles } lin. 
long, united at the base, very minutely bilobed at the apex. Capsule 
and seeds not seen. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Golis Range, Drake-Brockman, 300! 
146. E. Phillipsie, V. 7“. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1903, xxxiii. 370. 
A succulent leafless spiny branching perennial about 6 in. high. Stems 
and branches (excluding the spines) 3~1} in. thick, 9-angled, glabrous, 
bright deep green, not glaucous; angles with slightly prominent 
tubercles 1-2 lin. apart, bearing 2 diverging chestnut-brown spines 
3-8 lin. long on horny chestnut-brown shields decurrent nearly or quite 
to the next pair of spines below, but not forming a perfectly continuous 
horny border. Involucres usually 2~4 in a subsessile cyme or cluster or 
occasionally solitary in the axils of the tubercles, subsessile or shortly 
pedunculate, 3 lin, in diam., obconic, glabrous, with 4—5 glands and 
5 minute transversely rectangular fringed lobes; glands 4-4 lin. in 
their greater diam.., transversely oblong, entire, light orange-yeilow. 
Ovary much exserted on a recurved pedicel, glabrous ; styles 1 lin. long, 
united at the basal third, recurved-spreading, bifid at the apex, with 
the stigmas spirally coiled. Capsule and seeds not seen.—Berger, 
Sukk. Euphorb. 87. 
Nile Land. British Somaliland, Mrs. Lort Phillips! 
Described trom a living plant cultivated in Cambridge Botanic Garden. 
147. E, Dinteri, Berger in Monatschr. fiir Kakteenk. xvi. 109. A 
very spiny leafless succulent. ‘The largest specimen seen is about 18 in. 
high, but may have been taller or possibly a branch off a large plant, 
with the main piece 3 in. in diam. at the base. Branches in superposed 
whorls of 3-5, spreading-upeurved, 14-2 in. in diam., cylindric, with 7-8 
more or less spirally twisted and often zigzag compressed angles having 
continuous horny margins, which, together with the spines, are brown 
oa the y oung growth, soon becoming greyish-white, glabrous. Leaves 
rudimentary, seale-like, 4-3 lin. long, deltvid, acute, deciduous, Spines 
2-4 In. long, in pairs }-} in. apart, diverging and in dried specimens 
intermingled, Flowering-eyes placed midway between the spine-pairs. 
lowers and fruit unknown. Seeds 4 in. long and ¢ in. in diam., 
ellipsoid, obtusely 3-angled, smooth, brownish-grey, from being densely 
usted with brown on a grey ground, with faint longitudinal lines.— 
Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. &§3; Dinter, Deutsch Siidw.-Atr. 12, 90. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-West Africa, Dinter! 
The type specimen is without locality or number, but Mr. Dinter at the place 
ro mentions Salem and Pforte in Hereroland, and Inachab in Great Namaqua- 
and (Soutu Africa) as localities for the plant under Dinter, 200. 
. Described from the type Specimen, kindly lent to Kew by Mr. Alwin Berger, 
Pfla Informs _me that the plants figured as Z. virosa? in Engler & Prantl, 
"Sanaa Hi. 5, 109 (plate), and Engl. Pflanzenreich, iv. 38, iii, ii. 317 (plate), 
fr -0 supposed to represent E. Dinteri, but not ouly are they utterly different 
om it, but may possibly represent two very distinct species. The #. Dinteri 
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