522 cxxn. euphorbiace.e (brown). [Euphorbia, 



a tough creeping rhizome J-f in. thick, erect, branching, puberulou* 

 or glabrous, brown or green ; branches straight, divaricate. Leaves alt 

 alternate, shortly petiolate, ^-IJ in. long, j-8 lin. broad, linear, abruptly 

 acute or obtuse, obtuse at the base, fiat or narrowly revolute at the 

 margins, with a prominent midrib beneath, glabrous on both sides. 

 Stipules reduced to minute glands or obsolete. Involucre solitary, 

 terminal or falsely lateral at the ends of the branches, subsessile or on 

 peduncles up to 2 lin. long, 2^-3 lin. in diam., minutely puberulous 

 outside, glabrous within, broadly cup-shaped, with 4-5 glands and 5 

 broad transversely rectangular fringed lobes; glands about | lin. in their 

 greater diam., transverse, 2-lipped or obliquely funnel-shaped, and in 

 dried specimens usually with the inner lip pressed against the larger 

 outer lip, entire. Capsule erect, J in. in diam., velvety-puberulous ; 

 styles united below, with recurved-spreading branches, truncate or bitid 

 at the apex. Seeds about J in. in diam., globose, smooth. — Boiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 1264. E. djurenfiis, Schweinf. ex Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xix. 110. E. Kassileri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 8(). 



10*116 Iiand. Jur: near the I'iver .lur, Tiuiie, 58; at Knrsliook Ali's Seriba, 

 Sc/fweinftiri/i, lo91 \ Uganda: 'M inVi, Baqsha ire, 16'S2 I near Masinde in riiyoro, 

 JBnf/skawe, 1547 I liiitisli Kast Africa: Gadn, Kcis.sner, 413 ! 



40. E. calva, i\". E. Br. Perennial, with a tuberous rootstock. 

 Stem of the only specimen seen 5 in. high, 1-1 3 lin. thick, but on the 

 label stated to be 12-14 in. high, erect, unbranched, herbaceous or 

 perhaps subsucculent, glabrous, brown. Leaves alternate, ascending, 

 2-5^ in. long, 2-o| lin. broad, linear, acute, rounded at the base into a 

 very shoit petiole, entire witli narrow cartilaginous margins, coriaceous 

 or somewhat fleshy, with the midrib stout and prominent beneath, 

 glabrous on both sides. Stipules none. Involucres evidently terminal, 

 possibly solitary and subsessile, only one detached example seen, in- 

 cluding the glands, about 4 lin. in diam., 2 lin. deep, cup-shaped, 

 glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 rectangular or subquadiate minutely 

 ciliate-denticulate lobes; glands IJ-lj lin. in tlieir greater diam., trans- 

 versely oblong, entire, with a rim-like ridge on the inner margin. 

 Ovary and capsule not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Canieroons: Korrowae Plateau, 2300 ft.. Leder,nanii,^S'i'>0\ 



47. E. Oatesii, Piolfe in 0(de.^\ Matahele Land, ed. ii. 40S. 

 Perennial. Rootstock probably a tuber. Stem dividing at ground- 

 level into 2-3 erect or ascending branches ^-8 in. long, puberulous. 

 Leaves alternate or at the inflorescence opposite or subopposite, of 

 rather thick texture, \ 2\ in. long, |-2^ lin. broad, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, very shortly narrowed to a subsessile base or into a 

 short petiole, glabrous on both sides or sometimes with a few minute 

 curved hairs on the keel-like midrib beneath, sometimes minutely ciliate 

 when young. Stipules minuteand gland-like, or none. Peduncles solitary,, 

 arising in the forkingsof the stem or falsely axillary, J-1 in. long, erect, 

 puberulous. Involucre 2-2 J lin. long and 3-3A lin. in diam., broadly 

 cup-shaped with 5 glands and 5 lobes, puberulous or tomentose, with 



