594 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE (BROWN). | Luphorbia. 
slightly diverging, on small obovate horny shields about } in. long, dark 
brown. Flowering-eyes at the apex of the shields. Involucres in small 
dense clusters of 6-9 (really of 2-3 sessile cymes), closely sessile, about 
4 in. in diam., broadly cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 4 
transversely oblong fringed lobes; glands not contiguous, 14-1} lin. in 
their greater diam., transverse, reniform or somewhat  half-circular, 
yellow. Ovary only seen in a very young condition, glabrous, with a 
distinct calyx cut into several linear segments; styles free to the base, 
very stout, apparently entire.—Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 73. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Livingstone (Kinga) Range, on 
Lipanye Mountain, 8000 ft., Goetze, 1000 ! 
Described from the type specimen. 
179. E. obovalifolia, 4. Rich, Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 239, A tree 
with succulent branches, spiny, only a few terminal branchlets seen, 
constricted into segments 2-44 in. long and 4-24 in, broad, which are 
3-angled, with a rather small solid central part, glabrous; angles wing- 
like, sinuate-toothed ; teeth 3-4} in. apart and 1-3 lin. long. Leaves 
large, petiolate, thin when dried, 3-5 in. long, 4-12 in. broad, oblong, 
elliptic-oblong or elongated obovate, very obtuse or rounded at the 
apiculate apex, obtuse or abruptly or gradually cuneate at the base, 
glabrous on both sides, deciduous; petiole 14-5 lin. long. Spines 1-3 
lin, long, in pairs, diverging, brown (sometimes absent), on small ovate 
horny' shields, scarcely or but shortly decurrent below the spines. 
Flowering-eyes about 2 lin. above the spine-pairs, not connected with 
the shields by a horny border. Oymes sessile, ultimately with 3 nvo- 
lucres, glabrous. Bracts 12 lin. long, elliptic-oblong, concave, minutely 
denticulate. Involucres (in the specimens seen, only the male developet ) 
about 24 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and a erect 
“transversely oblong fringed lobes; glands rather distant, §-5 lin. 3 
their greater diam., transversely oblong with recurved ends, 2-lippe 
from the short infolding of the inner margin.—Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv- 
ii. 80; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 68. #. abyssinica, Engl. Hochge- 
birgsfl. Trop. Afr. 286 ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. Lec. 77, partly, not of Gnelits 
E. amplophylia, Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 186, and in Eng" 
Jahrb. xxxiv. 72. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Shohos, Quartin-Dillon & Petit! Gottes 
Gerima, Schimper, 793 of 1862 collection ex Engler ; Begemeder; at Herroe 
Gorgis, near Gafat, 8300-8400 ft. Schimper, 793 of 1863 collection! St e 
Province, Quartin-Dillon, ex Richard. Somaliland : between Alghe and Oi, Riva, 
1481! and 1636 ex Paz. 
The specimens of EZ. amplophylla, Pax, ‘consist of barren branches pie ag 
only, and do not seem to differ in any way except vigour from Schimper s 3 $4. 
teeth on the angles of the young branch being }-1 in. apart and the leaves, long 
long. The type of Z. odovalifolia consists of two narrow strips —_ re the 
ent from the angles of the stem and pressed with the edge upwards, so = 
prominence of the teeth on the angles is quite obliterated. 
Abyssinia? Aba 
ueculent, 
180. E. bilocularis, V. #. Br. A tree 25-40 ft. high, “s-angle’> 
leafless, spiny. Branches or branchlets seen 2-23 in. in diam., 
