Euphorbia] cxv. euphorbiace^. 941 



3. E. macra Hiern, sp. n. 



A green-glaucous, perennial herb, glabrous or minutely 

 glandular-papillose, much branched at and near the base; 

 rootstock rather thick or wiry ; lower branches erect or spreading 

 in many directions, short, 2 to 3 in. long, slender, leafy ; upper 

 branches sometimes comparatively elongated, very slender, erect, 

 less leafy, and 6 to 12 in. long; leaves opposite, narrow, linear- 

 subulate, acute or apiculate at the apex, sessile, connate at the 

 base, J to f in. long, rather fleshy, often not flat but more or 

 less folded laterally; margins entire; stipules obsolete; inflo- 

 rescence terminal and occasionally axillary; heads of flowers 

 subsessile, solitary ; involucre campanulate, somewhat compressed, 

 ^ in. long, minutely glandular-pulverulent outside ; lobes rather 

 small, ovate, somewhat cut or fringed ; glands 4 or 5, transversely 

 oval, sub-peltate, not cornuate, narrowly bordered, about ttj to 

 J^ in. in the greatest horizontal diameter ; bracteoles narrow, 

 haiiy, some at least exceeding or equalling the filaments ; pistil 

 stipitate; stipe glabrous, at length exceeding the involucre, 

 thickening towards the apex ; capsule obtuse, glabrous, |- in. long, 

 nearly as broad, smooth ; seeds about J in. long, obtusely angular, 

 marked with coarse wrinkles ; styles distinct nearly to the base, 

 bifid. 



HuiLLA.— In poor, sparingly bushy, rather dry pastures, between 

 Lopollo and Nene ; fr. April 1860. A short leafy form. No. 284. 

 In hilly and rather poor bushy places near Lopollo ; fl. and fr. April 

 1860. A very slender, comparatively elongated, and less leafy form. 

 No. 2845. 



It was probably on the living leaves of this plant that the fungus 

 n. 128rt, jEcldium Welwltschii Lagerheim, grew at Lopollo in March 

 1860. 



4. E. Serpicula Hiern, sp. n. 



A dwarf, prostrate herb, spreading in all directions, branched 

 from the base, apparently perennial ; root comparatively thick ; 

 stems hirsute with pallid spreading hairs, leafy, 1 to 2 in. long ; 

 leaves opposite, oblong-ovate or ovate, obtuse with a mucro at 

 the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, somewhat fleshy, glabrous 

 or sparingly ciliate near the base, somewhat reddish cartilaginous- 

 revolute and entire on the margin, J to ^ in. long, -^^ to y\p in. 

 broad, shortly petiolate, spreading ; midrib somewhat depressed 

 above ; lateral veins inconspicuous ; stipules reduced to a trans- 

 verse thickening ; inflorescence axillary : heads of flowers solitary, 

 on hirsute peduncles of yV ^^ To i^- ^^^S > involucre broadly 

 campanulate, nearly glabrous outside, a little hairy inside ; lobes 

 deltoid-ovate, small, ciliate-fringed ; glands 4, transversely oval, 

 about TTj- in. in the greatest horizontal diameter, not cornuate, 

 subpeltate, thick and dark purple with a thinner paler corolliform 

 broad conspicuous appendage or border on the outer side ; pistil 

 exserted, stipitate, hairy, -i- in. long, -^^ in. broad ; stipe hairy, 

 shortly exserted, curved and often recurving above ; seeds jq i^* 

 long, glabrous, obtusely angular, foveolate- wrinkled. 



