Euphorhia.'] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (brown). 519 



glands and 5 subquadrate lobes, ciliate at the apex, puberulous outside ; 

 glands \-^ lin. in their greatest diam., transversely oblong, entire. 

 Capsule 2^-0 lin. long, erect, only just exserted from the involucre, 

 covered with rather long spreading hairs ; styles about \ lin. long, 

 united at the base or to above the middle, entire at the apex. Seeds 

 IJ lin. long, ovoid, somewhat pointed at one end, encircled with 3 

 irregular series of small contiguous tubercles, dull greenish -brown. 



liow^er Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in wooded pastures between Lopollo and 

 Ivantala, Welwitsvh, 283 ! 



41. E. sarmentosa, Welio. ex Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 121. 

 Perennial, somewhat shrubby and more or less scrambling when adult, 

 woody and ^-| in. thick at the base. Stems suberect, much-branched 

 or forked, reddish ; branches spreading, tortuous, with recurved spread- 

 ing branchlets, puberulous with curved hairs. Leaves apparently soon 

 falling otf, alternate on the branches, opposite on the flowering branchlets, 

 somewhat fleshy, petiolate, j-3 J in. long, |-5 lin. broad, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, obtuse at the base, with fine distant teeth on the 

 margin, glabrous above, puberulous with curved hairs beneath, slightly 

 glaucous ; midrib narrowly wing-like on the underside ; petiole 2-4 lin. 

 long or the flowering leaves subsessile. Stipules none. Involucres 

 solitary on the forks or at the nodes along one side of the branchlets or 

 occasionally terminal on short aborted branchlets, subsessile or shortly 

 pedunculate, about 1 J lin. in diam., cup-shaped, densely whitish pube- 

 rulous with curved hairs outside, with 4 glands and 5 oblong or subquad- 

 rate lobes o- toothed and ciliate at the apex ; glands with a small pocket- 

 like base, produced dorsally into a re volute limb, rectangular and J lin. 

 long and broad when flattened out, minutely crenulate along the truncate 

 apex, puberulous on the inner face, reddish-brown [Welwitsch). Capsule 

 exserted, erect, 2J-2J lin. in diam., and rather longer than thick, 

 minutely puberulous ; styles J lin. long, rather stout, stifl9y erect, free 

 nearly or quite to the base, subacute, with a simple oblique stigma. 

 Seeds 2 lin. long, oblong, compressed dorsally, with 2 vertical rows of 

 3-4 deep pits on each face and 1 row along each edge, glabrous, 

 blackish, with a white caruncle. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 950. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; on dry hills around Quicuxe, inountaiu 

 thiekets near JVlutollo and near Loanda, rare, Weiwitsch, 297 ! 



A specimen collected at Kiora, Antunes, 336, may also belong here. 



Flowering branches of this species much resemble those of JE. systyloidea. Tax, 

 from East Africa, but that specie* is hu annual, with a more globose capsule and 

 totally different tuberculate (not pitted) seeds. 



42. E. systyla, Edgew. inJourn. Asiat. Soc.Iieng. xvi. 121!^. Annual 

 1-2 ft. high, cymosely or corymbosely branched, glabrous. Leaves oppo- 

 site at the forks and flowering nodes of the branches, alternate else- 

 where ; petiole 2-G lin. long ; blade J-2 in. long, 1-5 lin. broad, linear to 

 elliptic, subacute or obtuse at the apex, obtuse or rounded at the base, 

 quite entire, glabrous on both sides. Stipules none. Involucres sub- 

 sessile or shortly pedunculate at the forks, nodes or tips of the branches. 



