496 cxxii. EUPHOUBiAC'E.B (brovvn). [Euphorbia. 



90 ! Baiimann, 537 ! Lagos, Dmvodu, 272 ! Southern Nigeria : Attah (Idda), Vogel^ 

 85! Stirling Hill, Ansell ! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1489! Lokoja, 

 FarsonSy 54! Katagum district, Dalziel, 2081 near the River Beuue, Talbot! 

 Cameroons, Passarge, 5 ! 5a ! 6 ! 



Wile land. Kordofan: Mount Kolin, A'oif.vc%, 242! Obeid, iyw^ti, 23 1 93! 



Mozamb. Blstr. British Central Atrica: Nyasaland ; banks of the River 

 Shire, just above Elephant Marsli, Scott I south-west Matabeleland, at Matlouei, 

 Holuh ! 



This i)lant is said to he used as a remedy for " scorpion-bite." In Talbot's speci- 

 men from the River Renue, the gland-appendages are larger and much more 

 conspicuous than in any other I have seen, being fully ^ lin. long and f lin. broad. 



4. E. hirta, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 454 and Amcen. Acad. iii. 114. 

 Annual, 4-1 G in. high. Stems erect or decumbent at the base, simple 

 or dichotomously branching, rather coarsely pilose with yellowish 

 spreading hairs, usually densely at the upper part, thinly below, with 

 an under pubescence of minute curved subadpressed hairs. Leaves 

 opposite, i-2 in. long, ^-| in. broad, obliquely lanceolate or ovate or 

 rhomboid-oblong, acute or subobtuse, on one side of the midrib cuneate 

 at the base, on the other rounded, linely serrate, thinly ad pressed, 

 pubescent on both sides, more minutely so or sometimes glabrous 

 above; petiole i-l^ lin. long. Stipules minute, subulate. Cymes 

 axillary, pedunculate, J- J in. in diam., globose or dichotomously divided 

 into 2-3 globose heads; peduncle 1-6 lin. long, puberulous with minute 

 curved hairs. Involucres densely crowded, male or bisexual, minute, 

 about \ lin. long, very shortly pedicellate, obconic or cup-like with 4 

 glands and 5 deltoid acute fringed lobes ; glands erect, slightly exceed- 

 ing the lobes, linear viewed sideways, orbicular at the truncate apex, 

 viewed from above, with a very minute rounded dorsal appendage just 

 below the apex. Capsule globose-trigonous, h lin. in diam., thinly 

 puberulous with minute adpressed hairs; styles short, deeply divided 

 into 2 slendei- truncate arms, saircely thickened at the apex. Seeds 

 about \ lin. long, oblong, 4-angled, with slight transverse rugosities, 

 light reddish. — Jacq. Collect, v. 160, t. 11, fig. 1. E. pilidifera, Jacq. 

 Ic. iii. 5, t. 478, and Collect, ii. 301 ; Hook. Niger Fl. 499, excl. syn. ; 

 Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 21 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 940 ; 

 Pax in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 107 ; in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 156 ; in 

 De Wild, tt Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 52; in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 420, and xxxix. 631 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. 

 2, 313; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 50; and Reliq. 

 Dewevr. 202; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga 80; Etudes Fl. Bas et 

 Moyen Congo i. 280 ; and Miss. E. Laurent, i. 142 ; Stapf in Johnston, 

 Liberia, ii. 046, not of Linnseus. E. (jlohulifera, Kunth in H. B. & K., 

 Nov. Gen. et Sp. PI. ii. 56. Tithymalns hotryoides zeylanicits &c., and 

 Tithymalus hotryoides erectus etc., Burm. Thes. Zeylan. 223, 224, tt. 

 104 and 105, fig. 1. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Farmar, 7! Sierra Leone, Don! Vogel, 157! 

 Welwitsch, 288 I Scott-Elliot, Sh04 \ 45911 5845! 5851! L&gos, Mac Greyor, 360! 

 Mille7i, 61 \ Rotoland! Liberia, Vogel,Z8\ Whyte ! DinHage, IQb'Zl Gold Coast: 

 Aburi, Brotcn, 38G ! Togo, Baumann, 220! Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar, ilfi7n« .' 



