502 cixii. EUPHORBIACE.E (brown). [Euphorbia, 



hairs on all parts including the involucre and capsule. Stems several 

 from the cro^\n of the root, erect, decumbent or prostrate, usually 

 bi-anched. Leaves opposite, usually 2^-1) lin. long, 1-5 lin. broad, very 

 rarely larger, oblong or elliptic-oblong, rarely cuneate-oblong or some- 

 what rhomboid-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, very unequal at 

 the semicordate base, serrulate. Stipules minute or inconspicuous 

 (see note). Involucres usually crowded along the short densely leafy 

 axillary flowering l^ranchlets, rarely solitary and axillary on the main 

 branches, rj-| lin. long, cup-shaped, with 4 conspicuously appendaged 

 glands and 5 subulate or deltoid ciliate lobes ; glands minute, trans- 

 versely oblong, appendage petal-like, J-^ lin. long, ^-f lin, broad, trans- 

 versely oblong to broadly cuneate, toothed or rarely entire, white. 

 Capsule 1 lin. in diam. Seeds f-J lin. long, ovoid, acute, 4-angled, 

 slightly pitted-rugose, whitish. — Boiss. Ic. Euphorb. 12, t. Jl,andin 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. oC ; Schweinf. in Kull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 

 olf). £, thifimfolin, Forsk. Fl. .^gypt.-Arab. 94, not of Linnaeus. 

 E. toinentosa, Pers. Syn. PL ii. 13. F. hirta, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 793, 

 partly, not of Linnieus. Anisop/n/Ufni scortHfollnin^ Klotzsch i'c Garcke 

 in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1860, 35'; Schweinf! Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 35; 

 Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Geneva, 1 <sy2, 350. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Sieher, ]7! llotjer, 20 1 Hetidelot I Perrottef ! 

 Lelierre, 53! Seiieg:niiliia, 7/pj<f/p/o/, 474 I Jiruntier, 11a! 241 Sierra Lt'one : Ninia, 

 Talla Hills, Scotf-El/iot, 4993! Xortliern Niq-eria: near Lake CIkkI, at Kukn, 

 Vof/el, G I at Bure, Elliott, 109 ! 



Utile Ziand. Xuhia: near Suakiii, Sclnceiiifui'th, S79 ! 8oturba Mountains, 

 Schweinfurth, 878 I 88(' ! coast region, Bont ! Re<l Sea Province, Crosw/and, 1516! 

 Eritrea: various localities, Scfncei.ifurth S^- liim, 12,203! 341), 350, 1616, Hilde- 

 brandf, 7So\ Ste^idner ! Ehreiiherq. Abyssinia: Airnri, Stecker, 33 jmrtly ! Jaja, 

 Sc/nmper, ex Schxveinfv.rth. Sonialihind : 'AoWis, Kllenhfck, \'iO\ '!>v\\\\tkY, Kotschy, 

 291 ! Kordofan, r/tnid, 368! 360 ! 371 ! Kolschy, 1 ! SteKdner, 530! Bronn. 8b2 ! 

 1243! Darfur, P/'?y///, 14! WluteNile: near Turrn, .Sr//H-.?i>//Wy/A, D.xS ! Mcshra el 

 Zeraf, 5>-oh«, 1590! 



The 6])eciinens from Meshra el Zeraf {Brouii, loOO) in ajijiearance are totally 

 unlike any of the oilitrs qnotcJ, having leaves .l-l-^- in. long and \~''l in. broad, 

 obli(iuely rhomboid -oblong, somewhat thinly pubeseenl on both sides. The stems are 

 tomentose only on the tenninal internodes, thinly ))nbescent below, eaeh pair of 

 stipules is united into one broad-toothed body and quite conspicuous, and the Howers 

 are solitary in the axils of the main stem?, without any short Howering in-anehes. But 

 there is no structural difference, and I believe them to be individuals grown in rieh 

 soil, which have develojted a luxuriant foliage at the expense of the flowers. 



11 . E. granulata, Forsk. FL .Ftjyjd.-Jrab. cxii. and !)4. Annual. 

 Stems spreading on the ground, 1-8 in. long, simple or with alternate 

 branches, sometimes thickened or with ring-like marks at the nodes, 

 thinly or thickly pubescent all round with very spreading straight hairs. 

 Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, 1-5 lin. long, ^-3 lin. broad, 

 oblong or obovate -oblong, obtusely rounded at the apex, very unequal 

 at the base, entire, puberulous on both sides (sometimes thinly) with 

 adpressed or spreading and usually minute hairs. Stipules subulate, 

 ciliate, sometimes minute and inconspicuous. Inflorescence of very 



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