458 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE.t: (brown). [Monadenium» 



a very short compact terminal cluster ; peduncles J-1 in. long, recurved 

 at the top, very minutely puberulous. Bract-cup J-J in. long, and as 

 much or more in diam., obliquely cup-shaped, notched nearly or quite to 

 half-way down at the back, thin, glabrous, apparently whitish, reticu- 

 lated with darker veins. Involucre 1 in. long, cup-like, open down tho 

 the front to below the middle, with an entire revolute margin, slightly 

 overtopping the fringed inner lobes. Ovary exserted and reflexed, with 

 rather broad toothed or entire wings along the angles, glabrous, with a 

 perianth of 4-5 unequal lobes, the largest about J (in fruit 1) lin. long and 

 3-toothed at the apex ; styles united to the middle or nearly free to the 

 base, bifid, with thickened rounded spreading stigmas. — Lortia erubescens, 

 Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1898, 30. 



ITile ILand. Abyssinia: Aiussi and Boran countries, Z>r<7^e Brockman, Q91 

 70! British Soinnliland : Wagga ^Mountains, Mrs. Lort Fhillips ! and without 

 pretiBC locality, Drake Brockman, 483! 



14. M. coccineum. Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 127 and 120, /r/.9. 



A-G. Stems probably annual from a perennial rootstock, herbaceous^ 

 5-7 in. high in the type, but evidently broken from taller stems, \-\ in, 

 thick, simple or from injury branched, glabrous. Leaves unknown. Cymes 

 2-4 at the top of the stems, 4-5 times forked, many-flowered, dense, form- 

 ing a cluster about 1 J in. in diam., with peduncles J-f in. long, glabrous 

 in all parts. Bract-cup 2-2J lin. long, 2-keeled down the back, 2-lobed to 

 about half-way down and the lobes somewhat auricled and overlapping 

 behind, truncate at the top, thin, herbaceous^, deep red or purple. 

 Involucre 2-2^ lin. long, urceolate, broadest below the middle, thence 

 narrowed to the thickened revolute rim-like rugulose gland around the 

 mouth, shortly exceeding the fringe of the inner lobes. Ovary with a 

 small obtusely o-lobed perianth at its base, glabrous, exserted on a re* 

 curved pedicel. Capsule about 2 lin. long, | lin. in diam., oblong, acutely 

 v*-angled, with two slight keels along each angle. Seeds immature, 

 1 J lin. long, oblong, truncate at each end, 4-angled, minutely tuberculate 

 and with a small sessile yellow caruncle at the apex. 



Vile Xtand or Mozamb. Blstr. East Africa, without precise locality^ 

 Fisihfr, ')'1\ I 



15. M. paryiflorum, N. E. Br. Stem of the specimen seen D in, 

 long, but evidently taller, 2 lin. thick at the base, herbaceous, probably 

 annual from a tuberous rootstock, glabrous, leafless, with leaf-scars 

 1-1^ in. apart. Leaves not seen. Inflorescence of 1 terminal and 

 4 lateral cymes, racemosely arranged. Cymes compact, |-1J in. in 

 diam., on peduncles |-| in. long, 4-5 times forked, many-flowered, 

 glabrous in ail parts. Bract-cup \\-'2\ lin. long, 2-lobed to nearly half- 

 way down, 2-keeled down the back, with the keels decurrent on the 

 peduncles and sometimes somewhat frilled, herbaceous, green or reddish, 

 with darker venation on the marginal pait ; lobes about j lin. long, 

 broadly ovate, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate. Involucre 

 1 J lin. long, urceolate or somewhat pear-shaped, broadest just above 

 the middle, thence narrowed to the thickened rim of the mouth, which 



