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Piate 2666. 
MONADENIUM ECHINULATUM, Stapf. 
(with a cyathium of M. leve, Stapf). 
EvupuHorBIAcE®. Tribe EUPHORBIES. 
M. echinulatum, Stapf, a specie unica hucusque nota aculeis in 
omnibus partibus priesentibus, cyathio latiore, glandula multo minus 
Pp cta diversa. 
Radix tuberosa. Caulis erectus, succulentus, aculeolatus, circiter 
ed. altus. Folia breviter petiolata, obovata, acuta, i cun ‘ 
et in marginibus afek Sie petiolus crassus, ad 6 lin. longus. Jn- 
Jlorescentie axillares e dichasiis primo nutantibus aculeolatis composite, 
satura , , 
ad 6 lin. late. Cyathiwm Sonera subglobosum, 2 lin. longum, lve, 
uno latere ad medium fissum, 5-lobum, lobis rec eaisacele albis glabris 
fimbriato-laceratis incurvis ng ote, =f glandula subannulari crassa 
integra circumdatis et superatis. lores g in cincinnos circiter 5-floros 
cyathii lobis oppositos oe calyce destituti ; bracteole fimbriate 
cum cyathii tubo et inter se alte connate involucelli more flores ¢ 
cingentes. Flos 2 ec ‘athii fainve exsertus, nutans, calyce bracteisque 
destitutus ; ovarium 3-suleatum, glabrum. 
Tropica, West Arrica. Described from a living plant communi- 
cated by Mr. F. Sander. 
Regia agri was described by Professor Pax in Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. 
x. p. 126, from flowers and fruits, collected by Fischer in East Africa. 
It differs Pe Synadenium in the zygomorphism of the eyathium and 
the usually <0 more developed cyathial gland, which in this species 
as in M. coccinewm, Pax, exceeds considerably the lobes of the cyathium. 
A third siietion was scolleeted by A. Whyte in Nyasaland. It may be 
described as follo 
leve, Stapf; a M. echinulata absentia aculeolorum, bracteis 
edicts jokin alte connatis, glandulee margine recurvo cy athii lobos 
sequante diversa. 
