604 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE.B ( BROWN). [Evpkbrbxa. 



specimen C-8 in. long and J-J lin. thick, glabrous, slightly tliickenod 

 at the nodes with about 4 pairs of leaves at the tips, otherwise ieaflesfi. 

 Leaves opposite, very small, petiolate, 1-1 J lin. long including the 

 petiole, elliptic or orbicular, obtuse or rounded at both ends, apiculate, 

 coriaceous or perhaps somewhat fleshy, with very minutely denticulate 

 cartilaginous margins, glabrous, apparently glaucous. Stipules very 

 minute or none. Involucre solitary, axillary at the apex of the branches, 

 about j lin. in diam., obconic, glabrous, glaucous, with 4 glands and 

 .J oblong fringed lobes ; glands minute, about J lin. in their greater diam., 

 transverse, oblong, entire, without distinct appendages. Capsule fallen 

 away, not seen, but exserted on a recurved pedicel about Ij lin. long. 



lower Guinea. German South-west Af rka : by the Swakop River, near 

 Salem, Qiirich, 3 ! 



Pax has described this as a small decumbent herb, but tlie very imperfect type 

 specimen lias more the appearance of being erect, with ascending branches at a little 

 distance from, but subp^^ralk-l with, the main stem or branch. The glands described 

 bj Tax, from whichthe plant is named, are merely the scars of the fallen involucres, 

 which occur in many species. 



13. E. subterminalis, X. E. Br. Perennial ? Stems up to G in. 

 long, perhaps prostrate, angular, glabrous, woody at the base. Leaves 

 opposite, shortly petiolate, 1-2| lin. loDg, §-1^ lin. broad, oblong to 

 obliquely elliptic, very obtuse or rounded and very minutely denticulate 

 at the apex, entire below, oblique at the base, thick and coriaceous or 

 perhaps fleshy, glabrous on both sides, apparently glaucous. Stipules all 

 free or those on the under side of the stem sometimes united, entire and 

 .subulate or divided. Involucres solitary in the axils of the 1-3 terminal 

 pairs of leaves, shortly pedunculate, § lin. long and in diam.. narrowly 

 funnel-shaped, glabrous outside, pubescent within, with 3-4 glands and 

 4-5 very small lobes ; glands minute, transverse, bordered on the outer 

 margin with a narrow entire or very slightly toothed petal-like white 

 appendage. Capsule 1 lin. long and in diam., acutely 3-angled, glabrous*, 

 exserted on an abruptly recurved pedicel scarcely J longer than the 

 involucre. Seeds J lin. long, 4-angled, rather acute at one end, some- 

 what deeply and irregularly rugose, reddish. 



dourer Oulnea. Angola; by the Kiver Cuuene, Newlon! between Huilla and 

 Humpata, Johnston I 



This resembles both E. glanduliqera. Pax, and E. NeUii, Pax, but seeuic distinct 

 from both. From E. (jlanduligera it differs in its leaves being only very minutely 

 toothed at the ape.K, not all round, its involucre-glands having distinct petaloid 

 appendages and a shorter ])cdicelto thecap.sulc. From E. Nelsii it differ^, in having 

 involucres twice as large and the pedicel of the capsule abruptly recurved and only 

 ^ longer thau the involucre. 



14. E. Nelsiiy Pax in Bull, llerh. Boiss. vi. 737. Annual or 

 possibly perennial, with very numerous densely leafy prostrate stems 

 radiating from the crown of a 1-1 J lin. -thick root. Stems 1-3 in. long, 

 rather densely pinnately branched, glabrous. Leaves opposite, densely 

 crowded in 2 ranks, £-1 J lin. long including the very short petiole, J-1 

 lin. broad, oblong or slightly obovate-oblong, very obtusely rounded oi- 



