£uphorhia.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (brown). 52^ 



minute curved hairs outside ; glands f-J lin. long and }-l J lin. broad^ 

 peltate, 2-lipped, lips somewhat pressed together, forming an oblique 

 flattened funnel-shaped cavity, with the lip on the inner side halt as 

 long as the outer, both broadly rounded, entire; lobes transversely 

 oblong, IJ-l J lin. broad, truncate and cut into a fringe of many ciliate 

 teeth at the top. Ovary densely tomentose when young ; styles short 

 and thick, bifid at the recurved tips. Capsule not seen. 



Mozamb. Sistr. Rhodesia: Matabeleland, Oa^e*/ Guelo district, 100 miles 

 north-east of Buluwayo, Rand, 218 ! Chilanga, Rogers, 8466 ! 



This is only distinguishable fiom E. hongensis, Kl. & Peyr., by its longer 

 peduncles and the longer hairs on the tomentose involucre and ovary. 



48. E. Verdickii, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bos- et Moyen-Congo, i. 2«0. 

 A perennial herb about 6 in. high. Stem with spreading straight 

 branches, more or less fleshy, shortly and densely pubescent. Leaves 

 J-1 in. long, |-1J lin. broad, linear or oblong-linear, acute, rounded at 

 the base, with revolute ciliate margins, glabrous above, with some hairs 

 on the under surface, especially on the prominent midrib ; petiole J lin. 

 long. Involucres terminal, about oj lin. in diara., on peduncles up to 

 1 in. long, velvety, with 5 glands forming rounded glabrescent lobes, 

 tuberculate on their upper surface, wavy at the margins. Ovary shortly 

 pedicellate, tomentose; styles bifid. Capsule about 2J lin. in diam., 

 tomentose. Seeds smooth, greyish -brown. 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : Katanga district, Lukaf ii, Verdicic, 309. 



This may prove to be identical with E. Oatesii, Rolfe. 



40. E. trichadenia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 125. Perennial. 

 Rootstock a tuber with an elongated woody neck, sometimes 3-4 in, 

 long, producing annual herbaceous prostrate or erect herbaceous stems 

 lJ-4 in. high, branching from the base, puberulous or glabrous. 

 Leaves opposite at the forkings of the stems and the floweriug nodes,, 

 alternate elsewhere, sessile, thinly coriaceous or perhaps slightly fleshy, 

 J-2J in. long, J-2J lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, or the lower 

 and sometimes those under the involucres (bracts) smaller and lanceolate 

 or scale-like, acute, usually slightly curved, often longitudinally folded, 

 glabrous on both sides, sometimes ciliate on the narrow cartilaginous 

 margins. Stipules none. Involucres solitary in the forks of the stems or 

 in terminal 3-10-flowered cymes, shortly pedunculate, about J-^ in. in 

 diam., cup-shaped, glabrous or minutely puberulous (not pilose as 

 originally described) outside, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rect- 

 angular or subquadrate fringed lobes ; glands 2-2J lin. broad, palmate 

 or fan-shaped, deeply divided into 4-9 linear or filiform simple or once 

 or twice forked segments, flat or channelled but not corrugated on their 

 upper surface, with tbe undivided basal part 2-lipped, from the inner 

 margin being inflexed. Capsule eiect, 3J-4 lin. in diam., glabrous, on a 

 puberulous pedicel ; styles ^^-2 lin. long, united for about half their 

 length, with recurved-spreading thickened minutely 2-lobed tips, and 

 with or without an articulation on the united part. Seeds about IJ lin. in 

 diam., globose, acutely pointed at one end, thinly and minutely scabrous* 



