52C cxxii. EUPHORBIACE.K (brown). [Kvpltorhta. 



Kays of the umbel 1-2 in. long, simple or once forked, glabrous. Bracts 

 3-11 in. long, f-lf in. broad, sessile, deltoid-ovate, truncate or rounded 

 at the base, tapering to an acute apex, glabrous. Involucres solitary, 

 sessile or on peduncles 1-1 J lin. long, J-^ in. in diam. and ^ in. deep, 

 broadly cup-shaped, glabrous, with b glands and 5 transversely sub- 

 rectangular emarginate or subentire lobes |-1 lin. long and 1-1 J lin. 

 broad; glands distant, |-1J lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 elHptic, with the base excavated or very obliquely and shallowly funnel- 

 shaped, entire. Ovary glabrous, wholly or partly included ; styles 

 united below, with the free part about 1 lin. long, slender, slightly 

 thickened at the apex. Fruit and seeds not seen. — A'. vlieJiensU, Pax in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 420. 



IVIozamt). Distr. Gernmn East Afrira: Kagcyi on Lake WiiUnVu Fischer, 

 516! Uholie, Qoetze,b-lo\ 



I can find no specific distinction between the type specimens of E. plafycephala 

 and E, uhehensis. 



54. E. Monteiri, Ilonl-. f. in Hot. May. t. 5534. Perennial. 

 Primary stem about 1 ft. high and up to IJ in. (or perhaps more) in 

 thickness, cylindric, tuberculate with the conical persistent lenf-bases, 

 simple or with a few similai* branches, fleshy, glabrous, leafy orily at the 

 apex, naked below, described as resembling "an old cabbnge-stump," 

 producing around the apex annual deciduous leafy flowering-branches 

 0-12 lin. long and \\--\ ^i^^- thick, erect, terete, not tuberculate, 

 glabrous, glaucous-green. Leaves all alternate, 2-0 in. long, ^-1,1 in. 

 broad : those on the fleshy stems linear to spathulate-oblong, obtuse or 

 rounded and apiculate at the apex, cuneately tapering from or below 

 the middle into a petiole \-\ in. long; those on the flowering branches 

 sessile or very shortly petiolate, narrowly lanceolate or linear-oblong, 

 acute or obtuse, apiculate, shortly cuneate at the base, or occa- 

 sionally like those on the fleshy stems, all glabrous on l)oth sides, -; 

 glaucous-green. Stipules none. Cyme terminal, umbel-like. 2-o- 

 rayed, sometimes accompanied by solitary rays in the axil> of the 

 leaves below; rays at first 1J-3J in. long, ultimately develojiing into 

 dichotomous cymes up to 8 in. long. Bracts opposite, or those at the 

 base of the umbel-like cyme o in a whorl, |-2J in. lor g, \-\\ in. broad, 

 sessile, cordate-ovate, acute or tapering to a long point, glabrous. 

 Involucres on peduncles 1^-2 J lin. long, campanulate, about 5 lin. in 

 diam., glabrous outside and within, with 5 glands and 5 transversely 

 rectangular lobes, many-toothed along the truncate top, chocolate or 

 dark browni>h-red, with yellow tips to the glands, w^hich are 1 j- lin. 

 long and 2-2J lin. broad and pahiiately divided into 3-0 spreading 

 linear segments, thickened and minutely lobed at the apex. Ovary 

 with a small cupular calyx at its base exserted and recurved on a pedicel 

 becoming in fruit 4-5 lin. long, glabrous ; styles lf-2 lin. long, united 

 for more than half their length, rather slender, neither thickened nor 

 bitid at the apex. Capsule 4J-5 lin. in diam., divided into 3 broad, 

 somewhat wedge-shaped lobes by 3 deep grooves, glabrous. Seeds 

 subglobose, about IJ lin. in diam., greyish, with slightly depressed 



