944 cxv. EUPHORBiACEiE. [EuphorUa 



bristle-pointed or subulate teeth, 1 to 3 in. long by | to J in. broad, 

 alternate or the upper ones usually opposite; petioles slender, 

 somewhat pilose, J to | in. long; stipules short, often much 

 reduced; inflorescence subsessile, axillary and terminal, and 

 often terminating very short axillary branchlets, not opposite, 

 monocephalous ; involucre campanulate-turbinate in fruit, nearly 

 i in. long, woolly outside; lobes small, ovate, fringed; glands 

 transversely oval, thickly substipitate, about ~ in. in horizontal 

 length, not appendaged; bracteoles shorter than the filaments, 

 pilose ; capsules very shortly and thickly stipitate, hirsute, |- to 

 i in. long ; seeds smooth, minutely punctate ; styles free to the 

 base at the apex of the fruit. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded meadows between LopoUo and Ivantala, rather 

 sparingly ; fr. Feb. 1860. No. 283. 



Related to E. agowensis Hochst. (Benth. ms. in herb. Kew). 



9. E. decussata E. Mey. in Drege Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Doc. 

 pp. 67, 184 (1843) ; Boiss. in DC, I.e., p. 74. 



Ai'throtJmmnus cymosus Kl. & Garcke in Klotzch, Linn. Nat. 

 Pflanzenkl. Tricocc. in Monatsber. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, 

 March 1859, p. 251 ; and in Abb. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, 

 1860, p. 63. 



MossAMEDES. — Frutescent, 3 to 4 ft. high, much branched from the 

 base, dichotomous or trichotomous, glaucous, fleshy, rigid, with the 

 habit of Sarcostemma ; branches ascending, articulate ; the ultimate 

 joints flowering, abbreviated, after the fashion of Salicornia ; flowers 

 sessile, yellowish. On the somewhat saline rocky declivities of Serra 

 de Montes Negros. distant a (German) mile from the sea-coast, plenti- 

 ful ; fl. 10 Aug. 1859. No. 632. 



This determination is doubtful. 



10. E. viminalis Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. p. 14 (1768); non L. 

 E. Burmanni E. Mey., ?.c., pp. 102, 184; Boiss. in DC., Z.c, 



p. 75. 



MosSAMEDES. — The whole plant glaucous, rigid, brittle. On the 

 calcareous saline interior declivities of Serra de Montes Negros, rare ; 

 young plants, without fl., Aug. 1859. No. 631. 



Welwitsch thought that this was a young form of his No. 632 

 {E. decussata E. Mey.). This determination is very doubtful ; 

 perhaps the variety karroensis Boiss, I.e., that is, Artlirothamnus 

 Burmanni Kl. & Garcke, ll.cc., pp. 251, 62, represents our plant ; or 

 possibly E. serpiformis Boiss. in DC, I.e. E. viminaUs L. is an 

 Asclepiad. 



11. E. grandifolia Haw. Syn. Plant. Succul. p. 130 (1812). 



E. drujnfera Thonning in Danske Vidensk. Selsk. iv. p. 24 

 (1829); Boiss. in DC, I.e., p. 80. 



Island of St. Thomas. — A tree, 8 to 20 ft. high. Cultivated on 

 the coast and in the mountainous parts of the island ; leaves only, 

 Dec. 1860. " Pago olho de Maca^ao." No. 645. 



Prince's Island. — A tree, 25 ft. high ; trunk 1 to H ft. in diameter. 

 In the elevated forests by rocks, S. de Papagaio ; one leaf only, Sept. 

 185.3. No. 645/^. 



I have not seen the type of either Haworth's or Thonning's species ; 



