Moiiadenium.'] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (brown), 457 



^ A-shaped thickening (gland ?) at the base under the opening, equalling 

 or slightly overtopping the fringed inner lobes. Ovary and capsule, 

 smooth, not winged nor crested at the angles ; perianth a slightly 

 prominent obscurely 3-lobed rim; styles 1 lin. long, united for half 

 their length or more, bifid at the tips. Seeds oblong, 4-ano:led, 

 truncate at each end, with a stalked mushroom-like caruncle, white, 

 granulate-tuberculate. 



Mozamb. Blstr. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Kondowe nnd 

 Karonga, Whyte ! 



12. M. major, N. E. Br. Stems (i-16 in. high, \-\ in. thick, erect, 

 annual from a perennial (probably tuberous) rootstock, herbaceous or 

 fiubfleshy, glabrous. Leaves alternate, rigid, probably fleshy when 

 alive, subsessile, lj-2| in. long, f-l| in. broad, cuneately subspathulate, 

 fiubrhomboid-obovate or suborbiculai-, somewhat abruptly rounded into 

 a sHort acute point at the apex, broadly to narrowly wedge-shaped at 

 the base, crisped at the margin, with a narrow wing-like keel along 

 the midrib beneath, quite glabrous on both sides. Peduncles solitary 

 in the axils of the uppermost leaves, J-2 in. long, erect, glabrous, 

 corymbosely arranged, bearing nodding cymes about 1 in. long and 

 1-1 J in. in diam., composed of 3 involucres and their bracts. Bract- 

 <jups about |-| in. long, J-| in. in diam., obliquely cup-shaped, divided 

 to more than half-way down on the back, with 2 narrow wing-like 

 keels, thin, glabrous, apparently whitish or pale pinkish, reticulated 

 with rosy-purple veins. Involucre about J in. long and \ in. in diam., 

 not half as long as the bract-cup, cup-shaped, with a revolute margin, 

 open in front to below the middle, slightly exceeding the fringed inner 

 lobes, glabrous. Ovary exserted and reflexed, with a pair of broad 

 toothed wings along each angle, glabrous, with a perianth of 3 distinct 

 ovate acute lobes \ lin. long, triangular and 1 lin. long in fruit ; styles 

 united for half their length, upcurved, scarcely bifid below the thickened 

 globose minutely tubercular stigmas. Capsule | in. long, rather more 

 than \ in. in diam., 3-angled, with the broad wings folded closely 

 against the sides, glabrous, whitish-brown. Seeds about ]r in. long, 

 oblong, 4-angled, with a button-like caruncle, smooth, pale greyish- 

 brown. — Lortia major, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 289. 



WHe ILand. Southern Abyssinia: Mount Haquim, near Harar, EUeiihecJc, 

 921 ! between Harar and Addis Abeba, Welby ! 



13. M. erubescenSy X. E. Br. Stems 2-5 in. high, simple, erect, 

 annual from a perennial rootstock, herbaceous or subfleshy, ^-^ in. thick 

 at the base, minutely puberulous. Leaves alternate, subsessile, rigid, 

 probably fleshy when alive, 1-1| in. long, f-1 in. broad, subspathulate- 

 obovate or cuneate-obovate to elliptic or orbicular-ovate, shortly acute 

 or cuspidate at the apex, and tapering from above or below the middle 

 to a narrow or broad cuneate base, wavy-crenulate or crisped at the 

 margins, minutely puberulous on both sides, apparently dull purplish 

 or brownish, with pale green veins above. Cymes solitary in the axils 

 of the uppermost leaves, nodding, each with about 3 involucres, forming 



