Euphorbia] cxv. EUPHORBiACEiE. 951 



On the rocky declivities of Serra de Montes Negros ; fl. and fr. July 

 1859. By the red-sand rocks close to the base of Serra de Montes 

 Negros ; fl. and fr., 10 and 13 Aug. 1859. No. 287. 



24. E. cyparissioides Pax in Eng. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 123 (1894). 

 Suffruticose, woody, decumbent, and thick at the base, sub- 



glaucescent, glabrous, heath-like ; rootstock woody, perennial, 

 giving off numerous stems or branches, resembling in habit 

 E. Cyparissias L. ; stems erect or ascending, virgate, wiiy, simple 

 for some distance, losing their leaves near the base, densely leafy 

 above, at length dichotomously branched in the upper part and 

 umbellate at the apex ; leaves approximated, not opposite, linear 

 or rather broadly so, subacute and mucronate at the apex, some- 

 what narrowed to the sessile base, more or less spreading, at 

 length reflected, f to f in. long, revolute on the entire margins, 

 those at the base of the umbels broader and lanceolate ; rays 

 of the umbels about 5, unequal ; inflorescence sessile, terminal ; 

 carpels smooth, i in. long ; seeds smooth, pallid. 



HuiLLA. — In rocky sandy sparingly bushy pastures, near LopoUo, 

 not abundant ; in late f r. Oct. 1859. No. 285. 



In the absence of flowers, this determination is doubtful ; the type 

 of the species occurred at Dar Fertit, Dem Gudju, and was collected 

 by Schweinfurth, ser. iii. n. 149. 



25. E. terracina L. Sp. PI. edit. 2, p. 654 (1762) ; Boiss. in DC, 

 I.e., p. 157. 



Island of Madeira. — In rough uncultivated places between 

 Funchal and Camara dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. Aug. 1853. No. 289. 



26. E. balsamea Welw. ms. in herb. 



A fleshy, glabrous, very glaucous shrub, much-branched from 

 the base, 1^ to 3 ft. high ; sap copious, milky, agreeable when 

 fresh and like a balsam in smell ; primary stem about an inch 

 thick ; branches dichotomous, more or less ventricose at the base, 

 about as thick as a man's finger ; the young branches elongate- 

 conical, leafy ; leaves of the branches alternate, lanceolate or oval, 

 obtuse at the apex, narrowed towards the base, entire, fleshy, 

 glaucous, spreading, |- to J in. long, i to |- in. broad, falling off 

 from the adult branches ; petioles i to f in. long ; stipules ; 

 leaves of the inflorescence opposite, sessile or subsessile, not 

 connate but contiguous, very broadly ovate or oval, J to f in. long, 

 rounded or emarginate at the apex, the uppermost pairs indupli- 

 cate and embracing the terminal solitary sessile or subsessile 

 heads of flowers ; involucres tubular-campanulate or obovoid, 

 truncate, entire or sub-crenulate, hairy at the throat, green, |- in. 

 long, veiny, easily separating into obovate -oblong segments ; lobes 

 short, bifid, fringed; glands transversely oval, not cornuate; 

 bracteoles among the filaments hairy, equalling the involucre ; 

 anthers greenish glaucous ; pollen yellow. General inflorescence 

 lax ; umbels of few rays. Pipe capsules not seen. 



MossAMEDES. — In hilly sandy maritime places between Mossamedes 

 and Cabo Negro ; fl. June 1859. Also in rocky hilly places thinly 



