454 cxxii. EurnoKBiACE^ (brown). [Monadenhwu 



'). 'M.,sta,'pe\ioideBy Fax in Engl. Jahrb, xliii. Sd. Plant branch- 

 iug at the base (or possibly from the top of a stout fleshy main stem) 

 into fcimple fleshy (probably perennial) stems 1-G in. long, 3-5 lin. thick^ 

 covered with spirally arranged rhomboid tubercles J-1 lin. long, glabrous. 

 Leaves sessile on the apex of the tubercles, J-J in. long, J-J in. broad,, 

 lanceolate, acute, apparently longitudinally folded, with a prominent 

 midrib beneath, fleshy, glabrous, very minutely scabrous along the 

 margins, deciduous. Stipules none. Cymes several at the apex of the 

 stems, 4-5 lin. long, with 3 involucres ; peduncles h-l lin. long, glabrous* 

 Bract-cup 2^3 lin. long, oblique, with 2 short rounded apiculate lobes 

 and 2-keeled down the back, with the margins slightly overlapping in 

 front at the base, not undulate, glabrous, green. Involucre 2-2J lin. 

 long, somewhat urceolate, slightly inflated below and constricted at the 

 base of the erect truncate rim or gland, "red" {Jaeger). Ovary and 

 capsule recurved, 3-angled, very minutely papillate, with 2 toothed 

 wings along each angle. 



Mozamb. Sistr. German East Africa: steppe ea^^t of Ikoma, J^^^er, 359! 

 and witliout }>rccise locality, Uhh'g, .jSS ! 



0. M. EUenbeckii, N. E. Br. A fleshy perennial 8-1 G in. high,, 

 the type consists only of small leafless pieces (branches?) about 4^ in. 

 long and ^ in. thick, doubtless stouter when alive, cylindric, marked 

 with slightly prominent tubercles or leaf-scars, with 1 or 2 black glands- 

 beside them and often 1 in their axils, arranged in spiral series, but 

 not tessellately tuberculate. Leaves not seen. Peduncles bearing one 

 involucre, !»olitary in the axils of the leaf-scars, at the apex of the stems- 

 or branches, 1 lin. long, glabrous. Bract-cup '1\ lin. long, IJ lin. in 

 diam., notched at the apex to \ of the way down, with 2 slight keels- 

 down the back, running out into short subulate points at the apex^ 

 glabrous. Involucre (only seen in a fruiting condition) equalling the 

 bract-cup, very oblique and open in front to § of the way down, rounded 

 (not truncate) at the apex, with a dark (red ?) margin. Capsule (only 

 a few valves seen) 1 J lin. long, glabrous, exserted on a recurved pedice 

 'l-'2\ lin. long. Seeds IJ-lJ lin. long, narrowly oblong, 4-angledy 

 tuberculate, light brown, with a white mushroom-shaped caruncle. 



irile Z.and. (iallaland : Boran ; Tarro Gumbi, Ellenheek, 2102! 



7. M. echinulatum, Stapf in Hook. Ic. PL U 2GG6, Jigs. 1-5, 

 RootstocJ^ an irregularly ovoid tuber. Stem solitary, annual, erect, about 

 1 ft. high and ^ in. thick, herbaceous or somewhat fleshy, terete, beset 

 with numerous spreading scattered soft-prickle-like processes about J lin. 

 long, gi-een. Leaves alternate, rather few, |-1J in. apart, somewhat 

 fleshy, green ; petiole \~^ in. long, rather stout, flattish above ; blade 

 1-2 J in. long, |-1^ in. broad, the lower smaller, elliptic or elliptic- 

 obovate, subacute or shortly and rather abruptly pointed, cuneately 

 tapering into the petiole at the base, glabrous above, beset with small 

 soft points beneath. Cymes small, pedunculate, once to three times 

 forked, beset with soft entire points on the peduncle, branchlets and 

 veins of the bracts, at first nodding ; peduncles i-1 in. long, stout> 



