Biiphorhia.] cxxii. eupiiorbiace.e (brown). 50S 



short leafy raceme-like branchlets in the axils of and sometimes not 

 longer than the leaves of the primary branches, with one involucre to 

 each pair of reduced leaves. Peduncles J-J lin. long. Involucre J-'r 

 Hd. long, campanulate or somewhat funnel-shaped, green, with 5 palei* 

 stripes and together with the peduncle puberulous with minute curved 

 hairs, with 4 or occasionally 3 glands and 5 deltoid ciliate lobes ; glands 

 minute, transverse, narrowly half surrounded by an entire or slightly 

 2-8-lobed petal-like appendage. Capsule f-J lin. in diam., puberulous 

 all over with minute adpressed or spreading hairs. Seeds about J lin. 

 long, 4-angled, slightly transversely rugose or scrobiculate. — Vahl, 

 Symb. ii. 54 ; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 33 ; Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. 

 Roma, vi. 18G ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 314. 

 J'J, Forskalit, Gay in AYebb tt Berth. Phyt. Canar. iii. iii. 240, partly. 

 E.prostrata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw, i. 1)42, partly, not of Ait. 

 E.fragilisy Decne in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2me ser. ii. 241. Anisophylluni. 

 ijrani'latitm, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 34. A. Forskalei^ Klotzsch 

 k Garcke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1X59, 25, partly. 



arile X«and. Pcrim Island, Farmer! Dalak Isles, Steiulner, 554! Nubia, 

 Kohi:/<i/, 364 ! Bent ! Peilierick ! Ehrenberg, 16 ! Schweinfiirth, 454a ! Abyssinia, 

 Stc-ker, 33 partly! Rohlfs! Galabat, Schweinf nrth, 896! Cordofan, Kotschy, 17! 

 69 partly ! 470 ! Darf nr, Pfuiid, 501 ! Somaliland, BildehrancU, 868 ! Miss Cole ! 

 Jtioa, 288, 405. Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 



Xroiver Guinea. Angola : Loanda district, Welwitsch, 647 partly ! between 

 the River Geraul and Mossaniedes, Welioitsch, 648 partly ! 



Also in Eg'ypt and Arabia. A specimen collected by Bolle in the Capo V'enle 

 Islands is probably a form of this species. 



V;u-. filabrata, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 34. Leaves entire, glabrous on the upper 

 surfac*', thinly pubescent beneath, sometimes becoming glabrous on both sides with 

 age. 1 nvolucre thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous ; glands with their appendages 

 rather more petaloid tlmn in the type, but not much larger. Capsule, when ripe, 

 very thinly pubescent with spreading hairs all over or along the angles only or 

 glabrous. Otherwise as in the type. — E. Forskalii, var. glabrata^ Gay in Webb <k 

 Berth. Phyt. Canar. iii. iii. 243. 



JTile Xiand. Nubia, Schweinfiirth, 314! Bent! Cordofan, Kotschy, 9*! 69 

 partly ! 443 ! Steiulner, 528 ! Pfiiml, 500 ! Eritrea, Schiveinfurth, 104, 1724. 

 Somaliland, Mrs. Lort Phillips! 



Var. dentata, N. K. Br. Stems rather slender, 2-7 in. long. Leaves toothed, at 

 least at the apex, glabrous on both sides or with a few hairs beneath. Involucre 

 ♦jlabious. Capsule thinly pubescent with spreading hairs all over or only jilong the 

 angles. Otherwise as in var. glahrata, but apparently rather more slender in habit. 



WHc X.ancl. Abyssinia: Harar, Ellenbecl; 724! British East Africa: near 

 Lake Rudolph, Wellbg ! 



The variety deutata may prove to be a distinct species when better known, but I 

 can find no important character besides the toothing of the leaves to separate it. 



E.fragilis, Decne, appears to be a perennial form, with the basal part of the stems 

 much stouter and moro woody than in E. graiiulata, but otherwise there seems to be 

 no distinction. 



I 12. E. glanduligera. Fax in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 142. Stems slender, 



with alternate distant subparallel slightly curved branches, in the type 



