Eu2yh(yi*hia.'\ cxxii. euphorbiace.e (brown). 495 



pubescent with very fine and rather long spreading hairs on both sides, 

 entire, often marked with a red blotch. Stipules all free, subulate. 

 Inflorescence of small dense axillary clusters arranged along one (the 

 upper) side of the stem. Peduncles J- J lin. long. Involucre (excluding 

 the appendages) |-1 lin. in diam., cup-like, tomentose, with 4 con- 

 spicuously appendaged glands and 5 subulate woolly lobes; glands 

 minute, transverse; appendages petal-like, white, two of them more 

 than twice as large as the other two, about J-1 J lin. long and J-1 lin. 

 broad, obliquely oblong, cuneate-obovate or cuneate-oblong, entire or 

 crenulate on the margin, the smaller pair narrowly tranversely oblong 

 to cuneate-subquadrate, about 3-crenulate, sometimes obsolete. Capsule 

 about 1 lin. in diam., tomentose; styles J lin. long, shortly bifid, with 

 slender stigmas. Seeds f-| lin. long, ovoid, subacute, 4-angled, rather 

 deeply transversely rugose, whitish or reddish-brown. — Boiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 49, and Ic. Euphorb. 13, t. 20. Anisophyllum tettemey 

 Klotzsch & Garcke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1860, 34. 



nXozamb. Slstr. Portusruese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; near Tete, Peters ! 

 KirJc ! opposite Sena, Kirk ! Bpruma, Menyharth, 522 ! British Central Africa : 

 Nyasalaud ; beyond Murchison Falls, Meller ! Lake Nyassa, Simons ! and withoat 

 precise locality, Buchanan^ 174 ! 



The two large wing-like gland-appendages are directed over the back of the 

 recurved ovary or capsule and always towards the apex of the branch, in such a way 

 as to produce an extraordinary resemblance to a white-winged fly. 



8. E. convolvuloides, Hochst. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 46. 

 Annual. Stems one to several, erect, branching, 6-20 in. high, 

 tomentose, often with rather minute curved and somewhat adpressed 

 and interwoven hairs or occasionally (in possibly hybrid forms) with 

 longer and more spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, \-\\ in. long, J—J 

 in. broad, oblong-lanceolate, ovate -lanceolate or rarely ovate, acute, 

 very unequal at the semicordate base, minutely serrulate or subentire, 

 minutely subtomentose to nearly or quite glabrous on one or both sides. 

 Stipules all free and subulate or lanceolate-subulate or the pair on one 

 side of the stem united. Flowering branchlets short, with the involucres 

 densely clustered along them among the small leaves and bracts. 

 Involucres subsessile or very shortly pedunculate, |— | lin. long and in 

 diam., obconic-campanulate, densely covered with white or tawny 

 tomentum, with 4 appendaged or unappendaged glands and 5 deltoid- 

 lanceolate densely ciliate lobes ; glands minute, transverse, their appen- 

 dages, when present, about equal on all 4 glands, often very minute, but 

 sometimes up to J lin. long and f lin. broad, transversely oblong, entire 

 or unequally crenulate. Capsule about 1 lin. in diam., very obtusely 

 3-angled, densely tomentose ; styles ^\ lin. long. Seeds J-§ lin. long, 

 4-angled, with about 3 transverse ridges on the faces, whitish or pale 

 reddish. — Boiss. Ic. Euphorb. 12, t. 15. E. jyrieuriana, Baill. Adansonia, 

 i. 61. Anisophyllum convolvuloides, Klotzsch &, Garcke in Abh. Akad. 

 Berlin, 1860, 34. 



upper Guinea. Senegal : Upper Senegal, Lecard, 13G ! near Harni, Leprxeur, 

 ox Baillon. Dagorabi; Salaga, on the upper Volta, Kraiise, 13 ! Togo, Zech, 41 ! 



