606 rxxii. EUPHORBiACE.t (brown). [Eup/torbia 



thinly puberulous, with 3-1 glands and 4-5 minute ciliate lobes; glands 

 veiy minute, transverse, narrowly oblong, concave, peltate, without 

 appendages. Ovary eiserted on a rather long recurved pedicel, 

 glabrous; styles minute, scarcely ^ lin. long. Capsule and seeds not 

 seen.— Boiss. in JXJ. Prodr. xv. ii. 17l>, name only. 



irile Iband. Abyssinia, Sa/t ! 



This is closely allied to E. j)ohfcnemcndes, Hocbst., and when better known may 

 possibly prove to be a form of tliat species. The single specimen of which the tyfe 

 consists lias, liowever, a quite different appearance. It has dried brown. The leaves, 

 which ap|)ear to be thicker, more opaque, and more coriaceous than in E. polycnemoides, 

 are not toothed, and although somcwl»at apiculate are not niucronate in the sani(^ 

 way ; the minute ciliation on the young leaves seems wanting in E. polycnoaoide.s,. 

 and tlie styles are shorter than in the latter plant. 



17. E. polycnemoides, Ifochst. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 46^ 

 ami Ic. Kapkorb. 12, f. 16. Annual. Stems prostrate, decumbent or 

 erect, 4-14 in. Ion<r, usually much-bianched, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 

 shortly petiolate, l-ll lin. long, J-2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, linear- 

 oblong, or linear, more rarely oblong, often slightly falcate, acute or 

 obtuse, often somewhat mucronate, more rarely rounded at the apex, 

 obtuse to subcordate at the unequal base, minutely and acutely toothed 

 at the apex, entire below or sometimes quite entire, glabrous on botk 

 sides. Stipules all free, subulate or those on one side of the stent 

 broader and divided. Involucres solitary, axillary and usually spaced 

 along the flowering branchlets, J-| lin. long, including the very short 

 peduncle, campanulate, glabrous, with 4 glands an<l '> deltoid -subulate 

 slightly ciliate lobes, green or purplish ; glands minute, transverse, witli 

 or without a minute notched or 2-lobed appendage. Capsule not quite 

 1 lin. in diam., glabrous. Seeds J lin. long, ovoid, subacute at one 

 end, 4-angled, lather deeply and somewhat pitted-rugose or irregularly 

 transversely rugose, reddisli or whitish. — AnisophylUdu pohjcnemoides, 

 Klotzsch it Carcke in Abh. Akad, l>erlin, 1860, 34, name only. 



Upper Guinea. North Canieroons, Talbot ! 



IVile Xtand. Kritrea : Keren, Sieudiier, ~)o'l\ Cialabat : around Mataunna, 

 Schwti.iifnrUi, 881 ! Abyssinia; by the river Anzeba, Hildebrdiidf, 608! llamedo 

 Plain and Valleys, 4000 4700 ft., Sc/iimpr-r, 09 ! 19G ! Soudan : (rebel Regeb, Broin,, 

 1022! Kordofan: Obcid, Kolsc/ni, 302 I Pfn.id,A-l\ 401! Dilling, Brum,, 1305' 

 .lur : .lur (ihattas, ii,-/iwei,ifur(//,'23bH ! 



BKoxamb. Slstr. British Central Africa: Xyasaland ; Nyika Tlatrau at 

 Xymkowa,6500 f t , AfcCloii,/i'', 171 1 



18. E. Afzelii, X. K. Jir, Habit as in E, (r<j}jptuica, Boiss., bu( 

 perhaps perennial, with slender pinnately branching prostrate stems up 

 to 1 ft. long, minutely puberulous with adpressed curved hairs all round 

 or more or less glabrous on the under side, naked and somewhat woody 

 with thickened nodes at the basal parts. Leaves opposite, shortly 

 petiolate, very crowded on the lateral branches, 2-o lin. long, l-\\ lin. 

 broad, oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute at the apex, oblique oi 

 subequal at the rounded base, entire or minutely toothed, glabrous oi 

 with a few hairs above, thinly pubescent beneath. Stipules all free or 



