Euphorbia, CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (BROWN). 598 
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out into flat faces. Leaves rudimentary, scale-like, $-14 lin. long, 
1}-2 lin. broad, transverse, broadly rounded, wavy, recurved, brown. 
Spines 1-3} lin. long, in pairs 2—1 (usually #) in. apart, diverging, not 
deflexed, dark brown, becoming grey with age, on elliptic or orbicular 
horny shields 3-5 lin. long and 24-3 lin. in diam., at first chestnut- 
brown, at least on the part below the spines, finally uniformly light 
brown. Flowering-eyes touching the spine-shields but scarcely included 
in them, transverse, broader than long. Cymes sessile, 3 together at 
each flowering-eye. Involucres sessile, about 4 lin. in diam., broadly 
cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5-6 glands and 5-6 ovate long-fringed lobes ; 
glands not contiguous, 14-14 lin. in their greater diam., transverse, 
semicircular. Ovary, capsule, and seeds not seen.—H. Candelabrum, 
Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. 73, not of Trémaux. 
Tropical Africa. Native country unknown, but probably Eritrea, as some 
fragments distributed by Schweinfurth under No. 1351, from Acrur, collected in 
March, 1892, appear to beloug to this species. See note under HE. acrurensis. 
Described from a living plant, long cultivated at Kew! 
This is in cultivation under the names EZ. abyssinica ind BE, Candelabrum, but is 
totally different from either species. Only the central male involucre has developed 
at Kew, the lateral bisexual involucres failing to develop. 
177. E. neglecta, V. H. Br. An arborescent succulent, 20 ft. or 
more high under cultivation, branching irregularly from the base or 
upper parts, probably forming an obconic crown. Branches erect, sub- 
parallel, constricted into segments 8-20 in, long, which are sometimes 
of equal diameter throughout, sometimes more or less tapering upwards, 
_ 2-6 in, in diam., 4—5-angled, dark green, when young distinctly mottled 
with lighter green ; angles wing-like, 1-23 in. broad, much compressed, 
With an acute channel (flattened with age) between them, sinuate- 
toothed, the teeth 3-14 in. apart. Leaves well developed, 13-8} in. 
long, }- in. broad, cuneately oblanceolate, acute or rounded and apicu- 
ate at the apex, gradually tapering from much above the middle to the 
Sessile base, glabrous on both sides. Spines 3-1} lin. long, in pairs, 
‘verging and slightly deflexed, grey, on small orbicular-obovate horny 
Srey shields 3-1 in. long. Flowering-eyes }—} in. above the shields and 
hot connected with them by a horny border. Flowers and fruit not seen. 
—EL. abyssinica, Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. 67, fig. 14, not of Gmel. 
Tropical or South Africa. Origin unkvown. Described from a living 
Plant long cultivated at Kew under the name of E. abyssinica, 
18, EB. Winkleri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 342. A tree 80-90 ft. 
high, with a thick trunk and a small regularly branched crown. 
Ultimate branches 13—4 in. in diam., with 3 wing-like much compressed 
‘inuate or nearly even-margined angles 3-2 in. broad and a very small 
aolid centre, succulent. Leaves 1-14 in. long, $-1} in. broad, oblong 
be elliptic, obtusely rounded at the apex and cuneately rounded into a 
betiole 1-14 lin, long, entire, with revolute margins and an acute 
saidril beneath, probably somewhat fleshy, glabrous on both sides. 
Spines 4-1} lin. long or probably larger on the older parts, sometimes 
wanting at the flowering parts, in pairs }—-} in. (probably more) apart, 
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