942 CXV. EUPHORBIACEiE. [Uu2)ho7'bia 



HuiLLA. — In hot places at the outskirts of the forest, near and above 

 Mumpulla, among sparse herbage, rare ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 279. 



5. E. nenensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A glabrous, glaucescent, decumbent, apparently perennial herb ; 

 loosely branched from the base ; root rather thickly wiry ; 

 branches 4 to 6 in. long; branchlets ascending, slender; internodes 

 mostly longer than the leaves ; leaves opposite or three together, 

 lanceolate or sublinear, acute at the apex, somewhat narrowed 

 to the sessile somewhat oblique base, entire, somewhat fleshy, 

 erect or spreading, i to nearly 1 in. long by ^s to |- in. broad ; 

 stipules gland-like ; inflorescence terminal ; flower-heads solitary, 

 subsessile, i to J in. long; involucre broadly campanulate, 

 glabrous ; lobes ovate, small, fringed, subequal ; glands 4, 

 transversely oval, about -^ in. in the broadest diameter, not 

 cornuate, dark, whitish on the narrow minutely crenulate margin ; 

 capsule obtuse, stipitate, 4 in. long, i in. broad, glabrous ; stipe 

 exserted ; seeds angular, irregularly marked with oblique and 

 transverse wrinkles, i in. long ; styles 3, free nearly to the base, 

 contiguous, glabrous, -^-^ in. long, bifid. 



HuiLLA. — In elevated pastures among low herbage on a somewhat 

 sandy soil, near Nene, non-plentiful ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 280. 



6. E. prostrata Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 1, ii. p. 139 (1789); 

 Welw. Apontam.j I.e. ; Boiss. Ic. Euphorb. t. 17 (1866), and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 47. 



Sierra Leone. — In sandy maritime places near Freetown ; fl. and 

 fr. Sept. 1853. No. 650. 



LoANDA. — An erect herb, annual or lasting for several years, with 

 ascending basal branches ; leaves somewhat fleshy ; flowers pale 

 yellowish. In grassy rather dry places near Penedo ; fl. and fr. 

 beginning of Dec. 1857. On sandy clay flooded in summer, also on the 

 seashore about Loanda, plentiful but not ubiquitous ; near Imbondeiro 

 dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. May and June 1858. In herb. Kew. under this 

 No. there is also another species. No. 647. Imbondeiro dos Lobos ; f r. 

 March 1858. Coll. Carp. 908. An annual prostrate herb with the 

 stems and branches lying close to the ground and spreading in all 

 directions. On drying-up clay near the coast ; fr. June 1858. Coll. 

 Carp. 909. Annual, on a sandy clay soil near Coucei9ao ; fr. beginning 

 of July 1854. Coll. Carp. 914. 



Mossamedes. — In sandy maritime places and on the neighbouring 

 hills, between the mouth of the river Giraul and the town of 

 Mossamedes ; fl. and fr. 18 July 1859. A small hairy form. No. 648. 



HuiLLA. — On rough declivities between Nene and Lopollo, plentiful ; 

 fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. No. 278. 



Prinx'e's Island. — In sandy maritime places at Bahia de S. 

 Antonio ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 649. 



Cape de Verde Islands. — In maritime places at Porte grande de 

 Mindello in the Island of St. Vincent ; Aug. 1853. Only one specimen. 

 No. 649^. 



This species is certainly related to E. Chamo'syce L., and difficult to 

 distinguish from it. 



The following No., consisting only of a detached leaf and some 

 loose fruits, differs from E. 2)rostrata Ait. (to which it was doubt- 



