602 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (BROWN). | Huphorbia. 
195. E. franckiana, Berger, Sukk. Huphorb. 78, fig.19. A leafless 
spiny succulent bush 2-3 ft. high. Branches erect, curved at the base, 
3—4-angled, constricted into segments 14-24 in. long and 1-1} in. thick, 
usually slightly narrowed upwards from a broader base, with the sides 
channelled when young, soon becoming flat with age, green or grey- 
green; angles, apart from the constrictions, slightly sinuate-toothed, 
with continuous borny grey margins. Spines 1-4 lin. long, in pairs 
4—5 lin. apart, diverging, with a minute pair of points at their base, at 
first brown, soon becoming grey. Flowering-eyes about 2 lin. above 
the spine-pairs. Flowers not described. 
Country unknown, but probably either from Tropicai or South Africa; only 
‘known from cultivated plants! 
196. E. guineensis, Prot. in Bot. Zeit. i. 561, name only. 
197. E. hararensis, Pax in Engl. Juhrb. xxxix. 632. A large 
succulent tree, up to 60 ft. high, branching from the base, with the 
main branches ascending at an angle of about 60° and the smaller 
branches spreading-descending, slightly constricted at rather long 
intervals, 4-angled, with the angles scarcely winged. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Harar; Karssa, 6400 ft., Rosen, only known from 
a photograph. 
198. BE. Kelleri, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss, vi. 739. A shrub, 
pubescent on the young branches, becoming glabrous. Leaves hr 
long, } in. broad, spathulate-linear, subobtuse, apiculate, with a petiole 
about $ lin. long, glaucescent. Involucres in the axils of the upper 
leaves or 3 together at the apex of the branchlets, often with 2 pee 
leaves and 2 spathulate yellowish bracts under them, cup-shaped, a on 
¢ in. in diam., with transversely ovate (oblong ?) glands and fringe 
lobes. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Abdallah, Keller, 224. 
Var. 8 latifolia, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 740. Leaves 1 in. long, $ i?- 
broad, obovate-spathulate, obtuse; otherwise as in the type. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Abdallah, Keller, 222. 
199. E. mamillosa, Lem. Ill. Hort. 1855, Miscell. 69, in no 
Succulent, leafless, spiny, about 5-6 in. high, very much sore ed 
Branches tuberculate, with the tubercles crowded, spirally 4 
elongated, conical, dilated at the base, somewhat compressed are 
cylindric at the apex, bearing a very small roundish-deltoid ae" ae 
leaf and a pair of spines, which are subconnate at the base eer ise in 
ing. Flowers axillary, only seen in bud and not described. = . antha 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 80; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 66. Antic 
mamillosa, Lem. l.c. 69. 
Country unknown; probably from Tropical or South Africa. 
seen, 
No specimen 
