Euph(yrhiaJ\ cxxii. euphoubiace.+: (brown). 499 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo: various localities, Kdtsner, 2524! Tonne, 

 124 ! 126 ! 8apin, Gillet, Laurent ex JJe Wildeman. 



Mozamb. Bistr. Zanzibar, Schmidt, 46 ! German East Africa : various 

 localities, Uhlig, 250 ! Hoist, 527 ! Btisse, 2371 ! Stuhlmann, 308 ! 841 ! 6445 • 

 6541! 6715! 6855! 6950! 7l7l ! 7212! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, 

 Peters, 57! Cavalho ! Lower Zambesi at Sena, Kirk! British Central Africa: 

 Nyasaland: various localities, XFA^^e / Scot t -E lliot, S427 1 Buckanan, 392\ 1105! 



Widely distributed throughout all warm rogious. 



A very variable plant. The type specimen in the Linnean Herbarium is more 

 tomentose on the young parts of the stem, involucres, and capsule than in any other 

 that I have seen. 



(). E. glaucophylla, J*oir. JCncycl. SnppL ii. (113. Annual or peren- 

 nial. Stems usually several or many, J-lJft. long, slender, prostrate, 

 sometimes somewhat woody at the base, glabrous. Leaves opposite, very 

 shortly petiolate, J-f in. long, 1 J-5 lin. broad, oblong, lanceolate, elliptic- 

 oblong or somewhat obovate-oblong, rounded and often apiculate at the 

 apex, unequally subcordate at the base, entire or obscurely toothed, firm 

 in texture, 3-5-nerved at the base, glabrous, glaucous (not always in dried 

 specimens). Stipules on both sides of the stem united, broadly ovate, 

 fringed. Involucres in small pedunculate axillary leafy cymes or solitary 

 and axillary or on short axillarybranchlets,shortlypedunculate, |-f lin. in 

 diam., campanulate, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 quadrate fringed lobes; 

 glands minute, distant, J lin. or less in their greater diam., transversely 

 elliptic, bordered by a very narrow white entire petaloid appendage. 

 Capsule glabrous. Seeds about \ lin. in diam., subglobose, slightly 

 4-angled, pointed at one end, transversely wrinkled. — Boiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 14. E, trinerria, Schum. in Schum. A: Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 

 PL 253; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 498; Baill. Adans. i. GO; Boiss. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 15 ; Williams in Bull. Herb. Boiss., ser. 2, vii. 203. 

 J'J. decumheus, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 04O, partly. AnisophyUum 

 (jlaucophyllu7n, Klotzsch k, (larcke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, I8G0, 35. 



Upper Guinea. By the sea-shore : Senegal, Sieher, IS ! Fei-roitet I lioussiUon, 

 56, Dupuis G\ Poiret. Gambia, Don! Boteler. Liberia: Grand I^assn, Vogel, 54 1 

 I>inklage, 2094 ! Gold Coast, Thonning ! Krause, 98 ! Southern Nigeria : shore of 

 Nun River, Vogel, 10! C'ameroons, Ledermann, 148 ! Winkler, 769! Bates, 25 I 



Kower Guinea. By the sea-shore: Loango ; near Chinchosho, Soyaux, 32 1 

 Angola, Curror! Loanda, Welicitsch, 2Si2 \>VLYl\y \ 293 I 



The type specimen of E. trinerria, Thonning, is identical with Vogel, 10, from 

 Nun River. AlthoUiili very different in appearance this is difficult to distinguish in 

 ■words ivomE. hgpericifolia, L. 



7. E. parva, X. E, Br. A small annual 1^-2 in. high. Stem 

 simple or forking at the base into 2-3 branches, slender, erect, pilose. 

 Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, J-f in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, lanceolate, 

 acute, very oblique at the base, thinly sprinkled with long white hairs 

 beneath and glabrous or with a few hairs above, thinly ciliate, green 

 above, dark purple beneath. Stipules all free, subulate, longer than the 

 petioles. Involucres solitary, axillary, about § lin. long and \-\ lin. in 

 diam. including the appendages, somewhat ellipsoid, on peduncles about 



