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Stems 9-15 in. high; leaves ¿-13 or even 2 in. long; flowering leaves 3 in. long. 
This plant belongs to the section Tithymalus, and is near E. dilatata, Hochst. 
EUPHORBIA WHYTEANA, Baker fiL, n. sp. Fruticosa, ramis elongatis, virgatis, subdense 
foliosis, tenuiter striatis; umbelle radiis 3-9 brevibus pluries bifidis; foliis sub. 
coriaceis, integris, anguste oblanceolatis, superne glabris vel glabriusculis, subtus parce 
glaucescentibus, penninervatis, margine subrevoluto, apice in mueronem abruptiuscule 
brevissime attenuatis ; foliis floralibus liberis, triangulari-acutis; involucri turbinati 
glandulis crescentiformibus breviter cornutis; stylis bifurcatis; capsulis pedunculatis, 
glabris tenuiter rugulosis; pedunculis pubescentibus; seminibus non visis. 
Hab. Milanji plateau, alt. 6000 ft. No. 24. 
Cauline leaves about 1 in. long. 
This plant belongs to the section Tifhymalus, and is allied to E. involucrata, E. Mey. ; 
the bracts, however, are much narrower than in this species, and the cauline leaves are 
nearly twice as long and rarely deflexed. 
CELOSIA TRIGYNA, Linn. 
Hab. Milanji, 2000 ft., Oct. No. 166. 
Distr. Throughout Tropical Africa; also Arabia and Natal. 
POLYGONUM SERRULATUM, Lag. Gen. et Sp. Plant. 14, no. 181. 
Hab. Zomba, Sept. 
Distr. Throughout the Mediterranean region ; Syria to North India; North, Tropical, 
and South Africa, Canary Is., and Madeira. 
PROTEA NYAS#, Rendle, sp. n. Caulescens; foliis oblongis, apice rotundatis emarginatis, 
basi attenuatis, sessilibus, unicostatis, glabris, coriaceis ; capitulo terminali, magno, 
turbinato, squamis multiseriatis, arcte imbricatis, levibus, inferioribus minoribus 
late ovatis, margine ciliolatis, superioribus majoribus oblongis, deinde spathulato- 
oblongis, margine glabris; perianthio glabrato vel sparsissime pubescente. 
Shoot strong and woody. Leaves (of last season) oblong, with rounded emarginate 
apex, narrowed at the base, sessile, one-nerved, glabrous, coriaceous; 2-22 in. long, 
6-7 lines broad. Capitulum terminal on shoot of present season, from which all the 
leaves have dropped, turbinate, 3} in. broad at the top, 2% in. long; bracts of involucre 
many-seriate, closely imbricate, smooth, the lower and smaller broadly ovate, with a 
ciliolate margin, the size increasing upwards, and the shape varying through ovate to 
the uppermost, which are spathulate-oblong ; except in the lower the margin is glabrous. 
Perianth 12 in. long, glabrous or very sparsely pubescent; the lower broad portion of 
the tube 5 lines long by 1 line in diameter, the slender portion $ in. by 2 line, the limb 
7 lines long, segments } line broad, linear with a subulate apex produced 1} lines 
beyond the linear anther, which is 44 lines long. Style subulate, 17 lines long, channelled 
above. There is a hypogynous tuft of ferruginous hairs 5 lines long. 
