MoiKuleniiiin.] cxxii. euphorbiace.i: (brown). 453 



end, covered with small, very slightly prominent Hat tubercles, white, 

 with a dull ochreous caruncle. 



Mozamb. Blstr. Ngainilaiul : Kwebe Hills ; apparently rare, only one bed 

 of it found, at the foot of Kwebe Peak, 3500 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 21 \ ^ Tropical 

 Transvaal: Zoutpansberg- District; Tsama liiver, Matthewman, 55481 



2. M. heteropodum, X. E, Br. Stems arising from a thick 

 rhizome, probably perennial, 8-10 in. high, 1 in. thick, not branched, 

 cylindric, fleshy, prominently tuberculate; tubercles rhomboid-quad - 

 raugular on the lower part and hexagonal on the upper part of the 

 stem, usually bearing 2-3 very short or minute prickles around the 

 base of the leaf or leaf -scar. Leaves fleshy, soon deciduous, about 1 in. 

 lonf? and as much in breadth, rhomboid-spathulate, obtusely rounded, 

 and mucronulate or acute at the apex, narrowed into a short petiole, 

 serrulate at the apical part. i^^low^ers not described. — Euphorbia 

 heteropoda. Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. o74. 



Mozamb. Slstr. German East Africa: Pangani (Unguu) ; lower slopes of 

 Mbiilu Mountain, Eurjler, 1472a. 



8. M. Schubei, N. E. J Jr. Stems perennial, about 18 in. high, 

 1-1 J in. thick, cylindric, fleshy, prominently tuberculate, green ; tubercles 

 about 5 lin. indiam., angular at the base, bearing 6 short stout radiating 

 spines at their apex. Leaves up to 1 J in. long and J in. broad, spathu- 

 late, acute, tapering to the base, crisped-crenulate at the margin. 

 Flowers and fruit not described. — Euphorbia Schubei, Pax in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxxiv. 373. 



MCozamb. Bistr. German East Africa: Ulielie; by the River liuliosse, near 

 iionie, Goetze, 4M.j. 



4. M. Guentheri, Pax hi Emjl. Jahrb. xliii. 89, Stems perennial, 

 <5-10 in. high, probably about 1 in. thick when alive, J-J in. thick when 

 dried, unbranched, fleshy, cylindric, tessellately tuberculate, with very 

 prominent slightly recurved tubercles about \ in. long in dried specimens 

 from which the leaves arise, bearing 1-3 small spines around the base 

 of the leaf or leaf-scar, with the middle spine deflexed, up to 1 lin. long 

 and the lateral smaller or often obsolete, sometimes all are obsolete, 

 glabrous. Leaves 3^-8 lin. long, l|-2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 entire, fleshy, with infolded or incurved margins when dried, deciduous, 

 glabrous. Peduncles in the axils of the tubercles, about J in. long, 

 bearing 1-2 involucres, glabrous. Bract-cup oblique, 3-4 lin. long, 

 shortly and acutely 2.1obed at the apex, open in front, with the margins 

 not nearly meeting, 2-keeled down the back, glabrous, apparently green. 

 Involucre about 21 lin. long, open to below the middle in front, scarcely 

 narrowing to the" truncate revolute rim -like top or gland, glabrous. 

 €apsule 2 J lin. long, acutely 3-angled, with 2 narrow toothed wings 

 along each angle, glabrous. Seeds IJ-lJ lin. long, 4-angled, truncate 

 at each end, smooth, grey. 



Kile land. British East Africa: steppe near Make Tan, not far from Burn 

 Mountain, 3200 ft., UhUij, 4S ! 



