Eupko7'hia.] cxxii. EurnoRBiACE^ (brown). 527 



irregular hieroglyphic darker markings, slightly viscid. — Boiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 1264 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvii. 7G ; N. E. Br. . 

 in Kew Bulletin, 1009, 138. A'. Marlothil, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. x. 3g', 

 and Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 741, 742 ; Berger, Sukkul. Euphorb. 115 and' 

 117, fig. 31; Dinter, Deutsch Sudw.-Afr. -2^, DO. E, longibracteata, 

 Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 742. E, Baumii, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 2me ser. viii. 03G. 



Iiower Guinea. Southern Angola : by the Kubango River, Baum, 458 ! and 

 Avitliout precise locality, Monteiro ! (lennan South-west Africa: Amholand; 

 Olukonda, Schinz, 734 ! Damaralaud, Baine.t ! Een ! Rartmann, 40 ! Luderifz, 

 tsr> ! Hereroland; Karribib, Marloth, 1425! Dinter, 1390! Great Namaqualand : 

 Kehoboth, Fleck, 447a. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. British Central Africa: Xganiihind; Kohis, Baines ! 

 Jvwebe Hills, Lugard, 247! Mrs. Lugard, 87! Totin, near Lake Xgaiui, 

 Lugard, 75 ! 



r)5. E. Grantii, Olh\ in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 144, t. 93, A stout 

 bush or shrub 5-10 ft. high, with flowering branches J in. or more 

 thick, glabrous, leafy, apparently herbaceous, perhaps woody at the 

 base. Leaves alternate, sessile, ascending, subcoriaceous, G-12 in. long, 

 J-1 in. broad, strap-shaped or linear-lanceolate, acute or the upper 

 mucronate, rounded or narrowed at the base, glabrous on both sides. 

 Stipules none. Umbel terminal, 5-15 in. in diam., with (apparently 3) 

 repeatedly forked cyme-rays. Bracts opposite, sessile, 1 J-3J in. long, 

 1-2 in. broad, ovate or orbicular-ovate, acuminate into a fine awn 

 J-1 in. long, glabrous. Involucres solitary at the forks and flowering 

 nodes of the cymes, shortly pedunculate, \ in. in diam. without the 

 glands, broadly cup- or somewhat basin-shaped, minutely puberulous 

 outside, with 4 large glands and 5 or sometimes fewer subquadrate 

 bristle-toothed puberulous lobes, apparently purplish or red ; glands 

 about 4 lin. long and 5-G lin. across, fan-shaped, palmately divided into 

 5-9 (usually 7) filiform segments (appendages) 2-3-times forked at the 

 apex, with a crenation of the gland at the base of each segment, 

 apparently greenish, and its segments red with whitish or greenish 

 tips. Capsule exserted, |- in. in diam., with a very small slightly lobed 

 ■ciliate calyx at its base, glabrous; styles about J in. long, united for 

 half their length, shortly 2-lobed or transversely capitate at the apex. 

 Seeds globose, 2 J lin. in diam., smooth, but with a surface like that 

 of ground glass, dark brown, greyish- white when unripe, without a 

 caruncle. — Pax in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 108, and Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. vi. 741, 742. E. Mulemce, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 

 209. 



wile Xiand. Uganda : near Entebbe, 3900 ft. Brown, 384 ! Bugegu, Daice, 

 265 ! Buddu, Dawe, 274 ! near Mulema, Bagshawe, 321 1 340 ! Ukaiuba, Uildebrandt, 

 2G32! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Moliro, Bescamps, 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Unyanyembe ; near Kazeh (Taboni) 

 SpeJce Sf Grant .' Lower Plateau north of Lake Xyasa, Thomson ! Plagrige, 

 Fischer, 520 ! 565 1 Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1620! 3617 I 3791 ! Kutogo, Mildbraed^ 



