514 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (brown). [/'Jupliorhia. 



flowering node, one on a pedunculate flowering branchlet with 2 leaves 

 and 1 in the fork it forms with the stem, |-1 lin. long, cup-like, slightly 

 o-grooved at the basal part, with 4 glands (2 of them conspicuously 

 appendaged) and 5 subulate ciliate lobes, glabrous; glands rather large 

 in proportion to the involucre, transversely elliptic or suborbicular, 2 

 without or with rudimentary appendages and 2 with large petal-like 

 white appendages 1-2 lin. long, IJ-lJ lin. broad, broadly cuneate- 

 obovate, entire. Ovary glabrous ; capsule and seeds not seen ; styles 

 J lin. long, bitid to nearly half-way down, with very thick clavate 

 atigmas. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Rhodesia: Leshnmo forest, Holuh ! Seslieko, Miss Gaircl- 

 tier, 423 ! 



Almost identical in apjiparaiico with E. lupafensis, X. E. Br., hut the revolutc 

 margins of the leaves, glabrous invohicre and ovary, and thick elavate stigmas, readily 

 distinguish it. 



32. E. lupatensis, X. E. Ptr. Annual. Stem erect, sparingly 

 branched, 1-1 J ft. high, very minutely and thinly puberulous with 

 curved adpressed hairs, glabrous to the naked eye. Leaves opposite, 

 very shortly petiolate, |-U- in. long, |-1J lin. broad, linear, straight or 

 slightly falcate, acute, obtusely rounded on one side of the very unequal 

 base, entire, flat, not revolute at the margins, glabrous above, with 

 some very minute scattered hairs on the somewhat glaucous under 

 surface, venation conspicuously reticulate by transmitted light. Stipules 

 free, minute, subulate. Involucres usually 2 together at each flowering- 

 node, 1 on a rudimentary flowering branchlet and 1 in the fork it 

 forms with the stem, | lin. long, obconic-campanulate, with 5 deltoid 

 acute ciliate lobes and 4 conspicuously appendaged glands, puberulous 

 with curved hairs outside ; glands transversely oblong ; appendages 

 unequal, petal-like, white, the two larger J-J lin. long, §-J lin. broad, 

 very oblique, entire, twice as large as the transversely oblong entire 

 smaller pair. Capsule about 1 lin. in diam., white- tomentose with 

 minute curved hairs ; styles §-J lin. long, slender, nearly as long as the 

 capsule, bifid at the apex, with slender filiform stigmas. Seeds § lin. 

 long, ovoid, 4-angled, with 4-5 deep transverse parallel furrows on each 

 side, reddish. 



Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zamhesi ; Lupnta, A'tVAr .' 

 Very much like E. arabica, Steud. & Hoclist., in appearance, l)ut the loaves as 



seen by transmitted light are much more coarsely reticulated and the pubescence, 



gland-appendages and styles are quite different. 



33. E. glaucella, Pax in Bull. Ilerh. Boiss. vi. 737. Annual, 

 2-15 in. high, with about 3-6 ascending main branches, l-G-times 

 forked, glabrous. Leaves all opposite or some of the lower alternate, 

 with a whorl of 3 at the apex of the main stem, petiolate, glabrous on 

 both sides ; petiole J-4 lin. long ; blade J-2^ in. long, 1-4 lin. broad, 

 linear, linear-lanceolate, oblong, elliptic or suborbicular, obtuse and 

 apiculate or acute or minutely 3-toothed at the apex, otherwise entire, 

 rounded or cuneate at the base. Stipules very minute or absent. 



