Euphorbia. | CXXL, ‘EUPHORBIACEH (BROWN). 603 
200. E. Menelikii, Pax in Engl. vahrb. xxxix. 632  A_ stout, 
broad succulent tree up to 60 ft. high, branching nearly from the base. 
Branches curved, ascending, constricted into segments about as long as 
broad, 3-winged. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: South Shoa, xt Gennet, 7800 ft., Rosen. 
Originally described from a photograph, from which alone it is known. 
201. E. obconica, Bojer, Hort. Mawrit. 287, An undershrub 
with spiny stems. 
Nile Land. Mombuassa Island and Pemba Island, ex Bojer. 
202. E. rhipsalioides, Lem. Jil. Hort. 1857, Miscell. 72, not of 
Welw, Succulent, much resembling Rhipsalis Cassytha, Gertn , and 
Luphorbia Tirucalli, Linn., but differing from the latter in bearing on 
the very young branchlets solitary ovate-lanceolate leaves about ? in. 
long, 
Tropical Africa? Formerly cultivated in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris; no 
Speciinen appears to have been preserved. 
203. E. sancta, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxix.632. A tall tree about 
45 ft. high, with a naked stem and a loose rounded crown. Branches 
curved-ascending, succulent, constricted into suborbicular segments 
about as long as broad, 3-4-angled; angles wing-like, crenate.—Z. 
Stuhlmanni, Goetze & Engl. Veget. Deutschostafr. tt. 14 and 16, not of 
Schweinfurth. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Chercher Mountains at Deru, 7300 ft., and in the 
“acred groves of Jagallu in the province of Godjam, Rosen ex Pax. 
Originally described from 2 photograph; no specimen preserved. 
204. EB, Sereti, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii, 290, 
A candelabriform plant. Branches constricted into obovate (? ovate 
und tapering upwards) segments 2-22 in. long, 4-5-angled; angles 
Wing-like, more than ? in. wide at their broadest part, rather thick, 
undulated at the margins. Spines 1-5} lin. long, horizontal, diverging, 
Spine-shields not described. Flowering-eyes seated a little above the 
Spines, Cymes solitary or 2 together, with peduncles about 2 lin. long, 
bearing 1-3 involucres, the lateral on peduncles (cyme-branches) 1 lin. 
long. Involucre not described, its glands transversely oval. Ovary 
exserted. Capsule deeply 3-lobed as seen from above, glabrous; lobes 
“ompressed, about 2} lin. high and broad and 1} lin. thick. Seeds 
globose, 14 lin, in diam., dotted with blackish-brown. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Rocks of N’Goi, Seret ex De Wildeman. 
205. E, Antunesii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 79, from Huilla in 
Angola, Antunes 72! is Tavaresia Barklyi, N. E. Br., an Asclepiad. 
