Euphorhia.'] EUPiroiiBl.vCE.^ (Browu). 291 



blade or linear-oblong with the blade scarcely distinct from the 

 petiole, truncate at the apex, minutely papillate on the back and 

 with a few short hairs on the upper surface ; involucres sessile, 

 unisexual, \~1\ lin. in diam., cup-shaped, thinly pubescent outside^ 

 at least on the upper part, with 4-^5 glands and 5 oblong or sub- 

 quadrate toothed lobes; glands |— | lin. in their greater diam., 

 transversely oblong, entire ] ovary sessile, included, pubescent ; 

 styles exserted from the involucre, § lin. long, united for half their 

 length, with spreading bifid arms ; capsule and seeds nut seen. 



AVestbrn Regiox: Little Xuamatj^ualand ; Sih-erfouteiii, Bear Ookiep, Drt'je^ 

 2946 ! and without precipe locality, Marloth, 4892 ! 



This is well distinguisbed from all its allies by its snbscabrous branches. Boissier 

 describes the branches as papillose-hairy, but that does not seem to me a correct 

 description, the hairs are minute and resemble short stift" conical acute points, 

 unlike any that I have seen on any other species. Boissier quotes Zeyher, 1531, 

 as being E. spicata, but that number as represented by the specimens I have seen 

 is a glabrous plant and belongs to E, rfentilis, N. E. Br. 



68. E. mauritanica (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 452, and Amcen. Acad. 



iii. Ill); a succulent, spineless shrub, 3-4 ft. high, br.inching 

 throughout, leafy only on the young gro^vths; branches alternate, 

 erect, terete, smooth, marked or sometimes somewhat tubercled 

 with alternate leaf-scars, the younger or flowering branches |-^ in. 

 thick, becoming thicker with age, glabrous, green, not glaucous ; 

 leaves sessile, soon deciduous, |-1 in* long, 1-3 lin. broad, linear- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, glabrous, green; umbels terminal, 

 simple 3-5-rayed, when young with about 3 leaf-like very deciduous 

 bracts at the base ; rays or peduncles 2-6 lin. long, each bearing 

 1 involucre, and when immature a pair of very deciduous ovate 

 acute deeply concave bracts U-2 Hn. long and 11 lin. broad, 

 glabrous; involucre in dried specimens about | in. in diam. and 

 i_in. deep, cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate 

 bifid or emarginate ciliate lobes; glands 1^-1^- lin, in diam., 

 suborbicular, entire, "yellowish-green" (31111 er) ; ovary exserted on 

 a curved pedicel 2-3 lin. long, glabrous; styles f-U lin. long, 

 united at the basal third, bifid at the apex ; capsule 2|-3^ lin. in 

 diam., 3-lobed as seen from above, with subobtuse angles; seeds 

 li~l| lizi. long, oblong, grey, speckled with black. Jlill, Garth 

 Dirt, ed. viii. no. IG; AiL EurL Keio, ed, 1, ii. 137 ; W'dhL Sp. PI 

 11- 889, and Emm, FL Hort Berol 502; Thiinh. Prodr. SG, and FL 

 po.p. ed, SchulL 405 ; Pou\ Euci/cl Siqq)L ii. 610; Spreng. Sysf, Verj. 

 lu. 788; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv, ii. 94; Berger,SuJcL Euphorb. 2Gaud 

 yP> fiU' 3 ; Marlofh In Wisscnsrh, Ergehn. Deutsvh Tiefsee-Exped. 

 ii- iii. 234, '2db,Jig8. 94 and 119. E, maiiriiiana, BernJi. in Flora, 1845, 

 ^, and in Krauss, Beifr, FL Cap- iind Natal 150. E. TiriicaW, 

 TJiunb, Prodr. 86, and FL Cap, ed. SchdL 405 partly, as to sleet 4 

 ^f ^ds Herbarium, not of Linn. E.pliyutatodada, Boiss, Cent. Euphorb. 

 24, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 95. E. Hydnorse, E. Meyer, and 

 ^^ ^elanosticta, E. Meyer in Drlge, Zwei PJi. Documente, 184, eo: 



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