Euphorbia.^ cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (brown). 50.1 



emarginate (not acute as originally described) at the apex, apiculate, 

 very oblique at the base, entire or obscurely and very minutely toothe<l 

 at the apex, rather thick and somewhat fleshy, glabrous on both sides. 

 Stipules free or more or less united, cut into filiform segments. Involucres 

 one to each pair of leaves at the apex of the branches, minute, about A lin. 

 long and in diam., obconic-campanulate, on peduncles about J lin. long, 

 glabrous, greenish or purple, with 4 glands and 5 minute acute lobes ; 

 glands minute, transverse, narrow, purplish, with a very minute 

 appendage along their outer margin. Capsule | lin. in diam., sub- 

 acutely »^> -angled, glabrous, exserted on an erect pedicel about twice as 

 long as the involucre and slightly curved to one side ; styles very 

 minute, about ~r lin. long, bifid. Seeds f lin. long, oblong, rather 

 sharply 4-angled, transversely rugose, pale reddish, glaucous. 



Xiower Guinea. German South-west Africa : near Windhoek, Dinter ! Herero- 

 land, I^els, 91 ! 



A specimen collected near Kunjas in German South-west Africa by Dr. Range 

 (311) probably belongs to this species ; the leaves and involucres are the same, but 

 the internodes are elongated and the leaf -pairs distant, giving the specimen an entii>ely 

 «lifEerent appearance. It possibly grew in a less dry locality. 



15. E. Rivae, Pax 'in Ann. Ist'd. Bot.Roma,\u 186. A perennial 

 herb with radiately spreading prostrate glabrous stems, much -branched. 

 Leaves opposite, slightly fleshy, very shortly petiolate, 1 J-2J lin. long, 

 1-lj lin. broad, ovate, acute, subcordate or rounded at the slightly 

 unequal base, entire, glabrous on both sides. Stipules free and subulate 

 on the upper side, united into an ovate toothed membrane on the 

 under side of the stems. Involucres on peduncles \-\ lin. long, solitary, 

 one to each pair of leaves on the branchlets, Ij lin. in diam. including 

 the appendages, campanulate, glabrous, purple, with 4 conspicuously 

 appendaged glands and T) minute deltoid acute ciliate lobes; glands 

 minute, transversely oblong, with petal-like white entire appendages 

 |-J lin. long and f lin. broad. Ovary glabrous, sharply o-angled, 

 exserted on a recurved pedicel ultimately Ij lin. long; styles J lin. 

 long, free to the base, bifid at the apex. Fruit and seeds not seen. 

 wile land. Somaliland : between Surro and Kogono, Riva, 94 ! 



10. E. propinqua, B. Br. in Salt, Voy. Abjfss. Apiiend. iv. Ixv. 

 name only. The single type specimen is 9 J in. long, consisting of a 

 somewhat woody or wiry main branch, | lin. thick at the base, with the 

 branchlets all subparallel to the main branch, glabrous, brown. Leaves 

 all opposite, somewhat rigidly coriaceous, shortly petiolate, closely 

 placed or subimbricate, 2-1 J lin. long, £-1 Hn. broad, linear-oblong or 

 lanceolate, acute or obtuse, slightly unequal at the rounded base, entire, 

 glabrous on both sides, but when very young with a very minute 

 <jiliation on one or both margins, at least at the base. Stipules all free, 

 minute, subulate. Flowering branchlets shorter than or about equalling 

 the leaves from whose axils they arise, with one involucre to each pair of 

 reduced leaves. Involucre about J lin. long, including the very short 

 peduncle, J lin. in diam., somewhat pear-shaped, very minutely and 



