500 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE.t: (bkown). [Euphorbia. 



I lin. long, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 minute ciliate lobes ; glands 

 minute, transverse!}' elliptic-oblong, 2 of them with oblique petaloid 

 white appendages J lin. long, the other 2 without appendages. Ovary 

 exserted on a recurved pedicel, thinly pilose ; styles J lin. long, united 

 at the base, bifid at the apex. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Huilln VVdtcau, Dekin J/, 104-() I 



8. E. Kerstingii, Pax in KmjL Jahrh. xxxiii. 285. Perennial, 

 probably with a woody or tuberous rootstock. Stem or stems branching 

 at the base, apparently about 2-4 in. long, ? prostrate, puberulous all 

 round. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, subcoriaceous, r)-9 lin. 

 long, 1-4 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, cordate 

 or subcordate and slightly unequal at the base, entire or very minutely 

 toothed at the apex, glabrous on both sides, sometimes purple beneath. 

 Stipules of 2 or more filiform segments. Peduncles solitary, axillary, 

 1-3 lin. long, bearing 1 involucre, glabrous. Involucre 1-1 J lin. in 

 diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 ovate acute ciliate lobes ; 

 glands i lin. in their greater diam., transverse, narrowly oblong, bordered 

 with a petal-like entire white appendage J-J-lin. broad along their outer 

 margin. Ovary ultimately exserted and curved to one side, glabrous ; 

 styles about \ lin. long, free and spreading from their base, rather stout, 

 bifid at the apex. 



Upper Guinea. Togo: savaninili at Trogodo, 1000 ft., Kcrstii///, 35! Kete 

 Kratye, Zee//, 4:~> 1 



!). E. zambesiana, lif^uf//. hi Hook. Jc. PL t. 1805. Rootstock 

 perennial, woody, descending deeply, producing numerous simple or 

 sparingly branched stems, sometimes only 3 -2 J in. high in rather dense 

 erect clusters (these are rather starv^ed branches, only developed after 

 the annual burnings), sometimes 2-1 8 in. long and more or less spreading 

 on the ground (these are the more normal .stems of the plant, and their 

 charred remains are often present among the short clustered erect stems), 

 glabrous or puberulous all round in the same gathering. Leaves opposite, 

 shortly petiolate, J-J in. long, J-2 lin. broad, linear-oblong, lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, or the lower ovate or cordate or sometimes scale-like, 

 acute 'or obtuse, subequal or unequal and rounded or subcordate at the 

 base, entire, glabrous on both sides. Stipules variable. Peduncles 

 solitary, axillary, very variable in length, on the more leafy stems usually 

 all short and 1-(J lin. long, on the erect clustered stems J-2 in. long, with 

 or without a pair of scale-leaves below the middle, glabrous. Involucre 

 |-1J lin. long and as much in diam. (excluding the gland-appendages), 

 cup-shaped, glabrous, often purple, with 4 conspicuously appendaged 

 glands and h deltoid acute fringed lobes ; glands transversely oblong 

 or somewhat kidney-shaped, dark red-brown or purplish-brown, their 

 appendages petal-like up to Ij lin. long, and as much in breadth, but 

 sometimes less than half as long as broad, somewhat semicircular, 

 crescent-shaped, cuneately subquadrate to suborbicular, entire or obtusely 

 2-4-crenate or lobed, white or rose. Capsule 1 J lin. in diam., exserted 

 on a recurved pedicel, glabrous or minutely puberulous ; styles J- J lin. 



