498 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (brown). [EnjyhorbUi. 



E. pilulifera, Linn., is an Indian form, which has been correctly referred to 

 E. hyptricifolia in the Flora of British India. E. hirta, var. procitmbetis, gradually 

 jjasses into the t}'pical form. 



5. E. hypericifolia, Linn. Sjy, PL ed. i. 454, Annual, erect, 

 i>-18 in. high, branching at the base or sometimes simple ; stems simple 

 or alternately branching, puberulous or glabrous. Leaves opiwsite, 

 i"lj in. long including the very short petiole, \-\ in. broad, oblong, 

 linear-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic or ovate, subacute to rounded 

 at the apex, oblique at the base, minutely toothed or rarely entire, 

 puberuloas or glabrous on one or both sides. Stipules variable. Cymes 

 axillary, J-J in. in diam., laxly few- to densely many-flowered. Peduncles 

 J-— I in. long, puberulous or glabrous, often with a pair of leaves at the 

 apex. Bracts J-| lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate or entirely 

 glabrous. Involucres about \ lin. long, cup-shaped, puberulous or 

 glabrous, with 4 appendaged glands and 5 deltoid-subulate ciliate lobes ; 

 glands minute, orbicular or transversely elliptic ; appendages spreading, 

 transversely elliptic, J-J lin. broad, entire, white. Capsule 1 lin. in 

 diam., pubescent or glabrous ; styles deeply bifid. Seeds ellipsoid, 4- 

 angled, slightly transversely rugose, reddish-brown with a glaucous 

 hue to whitish-grey. — Hook. Exot. Fl. i. t. 36 ; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 ii. 23; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 144; Pax in Bolet. Soc. Brot. 

 X. 156 ; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, i. 142. E. pilulifera, Linn. Sp. 

 PI. ed. i. 454, in Amoen. Acad. iii. 115, and Herbarium, excl. reference 

 to Burmann, not of other authors. E. indica, Lam. Encycl. ii. 423; 

 Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 22, incl. var. angitstifolia, Boiss. ; De Wild. 

 & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 52, ii. 56; Reliq. Dewevr. 202; De 

 Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 279 and ii. 289, and Miss. E. 

 Laurent, i. 142; Pax in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 157, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. xxxvii. 107 ; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 646. E. indica, vai\ 

 pubescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 117. E. decumhens, Forsk. Fl. 

 ^gypt.-Arab. cxii. ; Willd. Enum. PI. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 27 ; Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 940 (name only). Anisophi/llum indicum, 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 34. A. hyperici folium, Haw. Syn. PI. 

 Succ. 161 ; Klotzsch & Garcke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1860, 36. 



Upper Guinea. Upper Senegal, Lecard, 116 ! Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 

 5011 ! 5040 ! Liberia : Ci.pe Palmas, Ans,-!! ! Grand Bassa, Dinklage, 1685 ! Togo, 

 -Bawmawn, 153 ! 220! Dahomey, iV>?('/o?2, 180 ! Southern Nigeria: Oj,\x\\\Ae, Holland, 

 267 ! Caraeroons, Bates, 25 ! 



nrile Kand. Galabat : around Matamma, Schiceinfurth, 874 ! 877 ! Steudner, 

 556 ! Abyssinia : various localities, Schimper, 168 ! 907 ! 1632 ! Steudner, 551 ! 

 Roth, 126! Sudan, Schweinfurth, 593! 740! Ehrenherg, 57! Kotsrhy, 334! 

 Pttherick ! Ktl.iopia, Kotschy, 5 ! 309 ! Kordofan, Kotschy, 154 ! Pfund, 2H4 ! 489 • 

 Somahland, ^/Zcnicc^, 987 ! 2281! 2315! Nuer Gauntry, J/wrte .' Uganda : various 

 localities, Murie! Sj^eke ^ Grant, 602! Mildbraed, 1912! Bagshawe, 739! 

 Ruweiizori, Wollaston ! Lake Rudolf, Wellby ! Bri:ish East Africa: various 

 localities, Kdssner, 279 ! Ilildebrandt, 2694 ! Taylor I Gregory ! 



Xower Guinea. St. Thomas Island, jDon .' Lower Congo, ^SmiM, 75 ! Gaboon, 

 Buchholz ! Angola : various localities, Mo7iteiro ! Gossiceiler, 229 partly ! Wei witsch , 

 290 ! 291 ! 292 partly ! 294 ! 295 ! Mechoiv, 20 ! San Salvador, Buttner, 268 ! 



