3C1 EUPiior.BlACEiE (Brown). [EuphorUa. 



Eastern' Region ; Portuguese East Africa ; Resaano Garcia, 1000 ft., 

 Schkdtter, 11949! 



Clowely allied to E. S'^uarrosa, Haw., and £. ScJnnzii, Pas. 



167. E. Schinzii (Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 739); dwarf, 

 succulent, spiny, leatiess, 4-6 in. higli, compactly much branched; 

 branches usually 4- (or occasionally 5-) angled, about 4-5 lin. square, 

 slightly channelled down the sides, glabrous ; angles with opposite 

 teeth or lobes -1— | in. apart, with their upper margin nearly truncate 



and that below the spines sloping ; spine-shields narrow, extending 

 below the spines -^-| of the \vay to the tooth below, but not 

 forming a continuous horny margin, dark brown; spines in 2 pairs to 

 each tooth, one pair at the base of the tooth, minute, rarely more 

 than ^ lin, long, sometimes wanting, another pair at the apex of 

 the tooth 2-6 lin. long, diverging, dark brown or grey ; involucres 

 3 together, sessile in the axils of the teeth, 1^- lin. in diam., cup- 

 shaped, glabrous, bright yellow, with 5 glands and 5 broadly obovate 

 fringed lobes; glands ^—1 lin. in their greater diam., transverse, 

 narrowly oblong, with the inner margin turned up into a slight ridge, 

 entire or with a slight notch at the middle on both margins ; ovary 

 sessile, included in the involucre, glabrous ; styles 1—1 ;|- lin. long, 

 shortly united at the base^ minutely bifid or subentire at the apex ; 

 capsule sessile, partly exserted, 1^ lin. in diam., 3-lobed as seen 

 from above; seeds immature, about 1 lin. long, apparently 4-angled, 

 ^vith slightly rugose faces. Fax In EngL Jahrb. xxxiv. 82 ; N, E. Br. 

 in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 567. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; hills near Pretoria, Burtt-Davy, 5381 9818! 

 9836! 10127 ! Rehmaim, 4347, M'm Leendertz, 168! Fngler, 2794 ! Miss Doklge, 

 5983 ! Galpin, 6974! Potgeiters Rust, Miss Leendertz, 1155 ! Berea Ridge, near 

 Barberton, Galpin, 1297 ! Magaliesberg Range, near RustenLerg, Miss Fci^kr, 

 933 ! Pietersburg and near Ciilunis Poort, Marloth, 5145 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



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168. E, griseola (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv, 375) ; a succulent 

 bush, spiny and leafless; branches less than 5 lin. in diam., 

 elongated, decumbent, 5-angled; angles sinuate-toothed, with con- 

 tinuous horny grey margins ; teeth about 4-5 lin. apart ; spines 

 3-4 lin. long, in pairs, with a pair of minute prickles at their base, 

 grey, with black tips ; involucre not described ; capsule about 1 lin. 

 long and twice as much in diam., deeply 3-lobed, as seen from 



above, with keeled lobes. See K E. Br. in Duer, FL Trap. Aft. vi. i. 

 678. 



Kalahari Region- : Becluianaland ; Lobatai, MurhtJt, 3413. 



I have not seen tliis plant. Dr. Marloth informs tne that he did not retain a 

 specimen of it. 



169. E. franckiana (Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. 78 and 79, fig. 19); 



a succulent leafless spiny bush, 2-3 ft. (or more?) high; branches 

 constricted into segments 1-3 in. long, and 1-1^ in. in diam., 



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