Euphm-hia.'] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (brown). 517 



the bracts) sessile, J-J in. long, J-| in. or more broad, with the larger 

 transverse or somewhat deltoid -reniform and the upper or bracts passing 

 into orbicular-ovate, obtuse, apiculate, subtruncate at the base, somewhat 

 fleshy, glaucous. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, unequally branched, 

 with the involucres rather closely placed along the erect branchlets. 

 Involucre solitary at the flowering nodes of the short cyme-branchlets, 

 and terminal, subsessile, rather less than 1 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, 

 glabrous outside, with 4 glands and 5 oblong toothed or sometimes 

 entire ciliate lobes ; glands usually about J (rarely \) lin. in their greater 

 diam., transverse, narrowly oblong, entire, slightly concave. Capsule 

 about IJ lin. in diam., thinly and minutely hispid; styles J lin. long, 

 free, spreading, bifid at the apex. Seeds (immature) oblong or sub- 

 rectangular, dorsally flattened, with a slight furrow on each side of a 

 median ridge down the back, smooth, dark brown. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 950. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; stony slopes of the JScrra de Montes 

 Negros, Welwitsch, 287 ! 



According to Welwitsch this plant is an annual or of several years' duration. 



o8. E. acalyphoides, Ilochst. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 98, 

 and Ic. Enphorb. 17, t. 49. Annual, 6-15 in. high. Stem erect, branch- 

 ing at the base, 2-8 lin. thick, glabrous or puberulous at the tips. 

 Leaves alternate ; petiole J-lj in. long; blade |-1| in. long, 5-10 lin. 

 broad, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, more or 

 less cuneate at the base, entire, glabrous above, thinly pubescent beneath, 

 ytipules none. Peduncles axillary, borne all along the stem and 

 branches, much shorter than the petioles, with a pair of small opposite 

 bract-leaves and 1-3 involucres. Involucre sessile, IJ-lJlin. in diam., 

 cup-shaped, puberulous outside or glabrous on the basal part, with 4 

 glands and 5 rectangular or subquadrate ciliate lobes ; glands f lin. in 

 their greater diam., transversely elliptic or elliptic-oblong, entire, pube- 

 scent all over. Capsule 2-2J lin. in diam., puberulous with minute 

 curved hairs, which, on the ovary, arise from minute tubercles ; styles 

 1 lin. long, shortly united below, shortly bifid at the apex, at first 

 spreading, afterwards collected. Seeds IJ lin. long, ovoid, slightly 

 angular, acute, transversely encircled by 2 constrictions, minutely 

 tuberculate. — Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 315; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 950. E. thelesperma, Hochst. ex Boi.«>$. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 98. TitJiijmalas acalupholdes, Schweinf . Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 38. 



KTile Xiand. Eritrea: Gedem Mountain, near Miissowa, SchweiuJ'urtli, 117; 

 lerha Valley, near Saati, Schiveinftirth, 301; Habab, Uildehnindt, UyU ! Aniba 

 Tochan, iSchiceinfurth, 636; near Togodele, Ehrenberg ! Abyssinia: near CJagcros, 

 Schimper, 182! 229-i !• Modat province, iic/iimjjer, 1753! Kordofan : Arashkt*! 

 Mountain, Kotschy, 88 ! Darfur, Pfund^ 485 I 



]bower Guinea. Angola: Loanda ; near Loanda and near Peuedo, Wehvilichy 

 296 ! Goisweiler, 184 ! 227 ! 



Also iu Arabia. 



