494 cxxii. EUPHORBIACE.E (brown), [Euphorhici, 



Branches 3-angled ; spine-sliielda not 

 in opposite pairs. 

 Cymes or solitary involucres on 

 peduncles 3-5 lin. long; styles 

 bifid at the apex . . . 131. E. brevis. 

 Cymes or clusters of 3 involucres 

 sessile or subsessile. 

 Spine-shields as broad or broader 

 than long, not decurrent below 

 the spines; styles entire . 132. E.imitata. 



Spine-shields much longer than 

 broad, decurrent below the 

 spines; styles minutely bifid . 133. E. Johnsonii. 



1. E. phylloclada, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. G6. Annual or 

 perennial, with radiately spreading or prostrate branches 1-6 in. long, 

 in the larger specimens repeatedly branched, glabrous. Leaves and 

 bracts on the branches all opposite, sessile, often crowded and imbricate 

 on the flowering parts, J— § in. long, and as much in breadth, broadly 

 cordate-ovate or orbicular-ovate, obtuse or acute, mucronate, coriaceous 

 or perhaps somewhat fleshy, with a narrow subcartilaginous white or 

 reddish margin, green, with a large white area at the base or occupying 

 half the leaf on one side of the midrib ; leaves on the young main stem 

 under the primary branches alternate, \-\\ in. long, spathulately 

 obovate ot orbicular-obovate, obtuse, apiculate, cuneately tapering into 

 a petiole J-§ as long as the blade. Stipules none. Involucre solitaiy 

 at the nodes, subsessile, 1 lin. in diam. and rather longer than broad, 

 campanulate, thin or somewhat membranous, apparently whitish or 

 purplish, with 4 glands and quadrate or rectangular 3-toothed ciHate 

 lobes; glands J-f lin. in their greater diam., transversely linear-oblong, 

 with a conspicuous petal-like slightly crenulate white or purplish 

 appendage. Capsule far exserted, recurved, IJ lin. long, Ij lin. in 

 diam., oblong, glabrous ; styles J— J lin. long, free, deeply bifid. Seeds 

 1 lin. long, 4-angled, with a small caruncle, very minutely tuberculate- 

 scabrous, grey. — E, peploides, E. Meyer, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 184, not 

 of Gouan. E, hereroensis. Pax in Engl. Jahrb. x. 35. 



ILower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland (Damaraland) 

 Haichanikab, Marloth 1190! Gouchassib River, i?a??_5re, 701! on rocks at Otyim- 

 h\x\%Vie, Lindner ! Welwitsch, 2>inf^r, 1490! Qalpin and Pearson, 7548! between 

 Okahandya and Swakop River, Dinter, 156 ! and without precise locality, Schinz ! 



Also in Great Namaqualand as far south as the Orange River. 



The habit and peculiar variegation of the leaves readily distinguish this from 

 all other species. 



2. ZS. tettensiSy Klotzsch in Peters^ Beise Mossamh. Bot, 94. 

 Annual. Stems solitary or many from the crown of the root, erect, 

 decumbent or prostrate, simple or sparingly branched, 2-18 in. long, 

 woolly-tomentose with rather long hairs to puberulous with minute 

 curved hairs. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, J-1 in. ^ong, 

 2-5 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, acute or subobtuse and 

 apiculate, cordate and equal or slightly unequal at the base, thinly 



