464 cxxii. KUPHOKBIACE.K (huovvn). [Si/nadeniv til. 



acute, minutely and indistinctly crinkled at the edges, with an acute 

 wing-like keel along the midrib beneath, glabrous on both sides, 

 deciduous. Umbels axillary, pedunculate, simple, 4-5-rayed ; peduncles 

 J-j in. long, fleshy, slightly puberulous down one side ; rays J- J in. 

 long, each bearing 1 involucre, subclavate, Heshy, pubescent with 

 spreading hairs ; bracts 1-1 1 Hn. long and broad, subquadrate or broadly 

 ovate, pubescent, very minutely gland-toothed Involucre 2J-2| lin. 

 in diam. and about 1^ lin. deep, cup- or shallowly basin-shaped^ 

 pubescent on the basal part, with an entire spreading rim-like gland ; 

 lobes overtopping the gland, thinly pubescent on both sides. Ovaiy 

 adpressed -puberulous ; perianth reduced to a mere rim ; styles shortly 

 united at the base, divided to nearly half-way down into 2 filiform 

 stigmas, pubescent. 



Mozamb. Dfstr. Hriti.sh Central Africa : NyasalaiiJ ; Namasi, Cameron! 

 Described Iroui a very short branch ))re.servt^d in fluid. According to the 

 collector" the leavers fall oft* in the dry season, and it then looks like a Cactus." 



2. S. Volkensii, Pax in EikjL Pf. Ost-Afr. C, 24::J. Branches 

 as in S. Granlii, Hook, f., glabrous. Leaves 4-5 in. long, 2-2| in. 

 broad, lather thickly coriaceous, probably fleshy when alive, elliptic, 

 elliptic-obovate or obovHte-oblong, rounded into a short deltoid point at 

 the apex, cuneately narrowed from the middle or below into a very 

 short stout petiole, minutely serrate, glabrous on both sides ; midrib 

 apparently neitlier acute nor keeled beneath, unless perhaps slightly 

 towards the apex. Peduncles about 1 in. long, branching at the apex 

 into a teimple \jmbel of ^5-4 rays \-\ in. long surrounding a sessile 

 involucre, shortly pubescent. Bracts ^ in. long and nearly as broad, 

 cuneately subquadrate, often slightly hooded at the truncately-rounded 

 apex, pubesceijt on both sides. Involuci-es solitary at the apex of each 

 ray and one sessile between the bases of the rays, 8J lin. in diam., 

 shallowly cup-like, with a very spreading rim-like entire gland ; lobes 

 wholly overtopping the gland. Ovary, styles and pedicel pubescent ; 

 pei-ianth with very rudimentary rounded lobules ; styles connate at the 

 We, deeply divide«l into rather slenderly pointed subulate arms. — 

 Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 530. 



Mozamb. Sistr. (iernian East Africa : Kilimanjaro, near the AJis:>ionury 

 Station, 5'>^XJ ft., Fo/X-^;m-, 1059a ! ^\osh\, Merker, m^\ 



o. S. umbellatum, Pci^c In En<jl. Jahrh. xix. 1 25. Branches as in 

 S. G'rantii, Hook. f.. glabrous. Leaves alternate, o-4J in. long, IJ-lJ in. 

 broad, cuneately oblanceolate or obovate, abruptly acute or with a short 

 deltoid point, tapering to the subsessile or very shortly petiolate base, 

 with the midrib prominent and rounded (not wing-keeled) beneath. 

 Umbels axillary, compound ; peduncles |-1 in. long, glabrous, with o-5 

 primary glabrous rays ^-J in. long and 8-4 secondary thinly pubescent 

 i?ays 8-5 lin. long; bracts rectangular or quadrate, truncate, thinly 

 pubescent. Involucre 2J lin. in diam., shortly and broadly funnel- 

 shaped, with an entire spreading margin, glabrous outside, red ; lobes 

 erect, transversely rectangular, ciliate, glabrous on the back, red. Capsule 



