r)08 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (brown). [Euphorbia. 



Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 34. A. ForskcUei, p&rtly, and J. burmcm- 

 nianum, Klotzsch «fe Garcke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1800, 25. 



Upper Oulnea. Senegal, OiiiUevnn I Heudelot I Ptrrotiet ! Grolier ! Sene- 

 gambiu, Lepneur ! Heudelot, 226! Sierra Leoue, Scoti-EUiot, 4636! Northern 

 Nigeria : Kuka, on Lake Chad, Togel, 2 ! Nupe, Barter, 316 ! 834 ! Kataguui 

 District, jDa^ziW, 306 ! Yo\&, Dal ziel, 1~A\ \, oVoyA, Shaw, '6o\ Canieroons ; Rio del 

 Rey, Johnston ! 



Wile Ziand. Nubia : Suakiii, Lord ! Dongola, Ehrenherg, 17 ! between Suakiii 

 and Berber, hichweinfurth, 592! 624! Abu Hamed, Petherich ! banks of the Nile, 

 Bromfield, 64 I Galabat, Schw€i»fvrlh, 898 ! 899 ! Abyssinia ; by the River Tacaz/e. 

 Schimper, 618! Rouen ex Fax. Sudan: Wadi Schellai, Schioeinfurth,^2Q\ near 

 Khartoum, -BroMn / Sennar, iL'o/*c%, 247 ! Ethiopia, A'o/*67/t^, 176 1 3101 Kordofan, 

 Kotschy, 155 ! 



]Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith, 58! 63! German South-west Africa, 

 IHnier,\Oo\ 222! 1418! 



Also in the Cape Verde Islands, Egypt, Arabia, and Syria. 



E. thymifolia^ Linn. Diss. Euphorb. in Amoen. Acad. iii. 115, and Sp. PI. «d. i. 

 454, a native of India, is quoted by De Wildemauin i^:tudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 

 i. 280, and ii. 291, and Miss, E, Laurent, i. 142, as having been collected in Belgian 

 Congo by Laurent, 437, and Gillet, 2567, but 1 have not seen a s])ecimen from Africa 

 that agrees with the type of L. thymifolia in the Linnean Herbarium, and suspect 

 that the specimens referred to belong to E. agyptiara, Boiss. 



21. E. sanguinea, IlocJist. d- Steud. ex Jioiss. in J)C. Prodr, xv. ii. 

 35. Annual, with several prostrate or decumbent branching glabrous 

 stems. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 1-5 lin. long, J-2J lin. broad, 

 oblong or occasionally obliquely elliptic, obtusely rounded at the apex, 

 very oblique at the base, toothed nearly to the base, at least on one 

 margin or sometimes nearly or quite entire, glabrous on both sides, 

 often marked with a red spot or blotch. Stipules all free, often as long 

 as or longer than the petioles, those on the under side of the stem 

 usually broader and more divided than those on the upper side. 

 Inflorescence as in E. prostrata. Peduncles \-^ lin. long, glabrous. 

 Involucre J-J lin. long, campanulate or globose-canipanulate, glabrous, 

 with 4 glands and 5 lobes; glands minute, transverse, half surrounded 

 by a narrow appendage, which is usually l' -i»-lobed. Capsule |-l lin. 

 in diam., glabrous. Seeds ^ lin. long, 4-;ingled, slightly transversely 

 rugose, pale reddish. — E. prostrato, lliern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 042, partly, not of Ait. 



Ifflle Ziand. Somaliland, Mrs. Lort Phillips! Ellenheck, 463a! Uganda: 

 Kavirondo; between Nandi and Mumia^, IVhtjIt ! near Nairobi, Whyte I Gilgil 

 River, Scott-Elliot, 6573 ! 



Itovrer Guinea. Angola: between the mouth of the Kiver Glraul and 

 Mossamedes, Welwilsch, 648 partly I between Nene and Lojwjllo, Welivitsch , 278 ! 

 German South-west Africa : Olukonda, Svhinz, S97 ! Okandya, Binler, 361 ! Awithab. 

 Dinter, 1002! Kuibis, Range, 885! Koes Redmojid, Graf-Pfeil, 152! 



Moxamb. Slstr. (ierman East Africa: llsambara : Kwai, Albers, 364: 

 Kwa Mflhuza, Hoht, 9157! Kilimanjaro, at Marangu, Vol kens, ■'i2o0\ 1250a: 

 ahlig, 338! 489! Karagwe ; Kafuro, Stuhlmavn, 1892! 189H 1 British Central 

 Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba, Jia/<'o;/ .' 



Var. intermedia, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 35. Stem cither solitary and erecr 



