528 cxxTi. EUPHOKBTACE^E (brown). [Eitphorhta. 



271 ! Lages Muku in East Ruanda, Mildbraed, 4-49 ! Kilmatinde, Clans, 27 ! 

 Priitwitz, 126 ! 



5G. £!• pseudograntii. Fax in Engl. Jahrh. xxx. ?A'l. A stout 

 herb, 3-6 ft. high. Leaves alternate, somewhat whorled at the base of 

 the inflorescence, 8-12 in. long (including the petiole), \\-o\ in. Inroad, 

 cuneately oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate or the upper strap-shaped, 

 shortly acute or subacute, tapering at the basal \-\ into a petiole 

 ■i-1 in. long, glabrous on both sides. Stipules none. Inflorescence 

 terminal, dividing into a large cyme or umbel several times forked, 

 glabrous. Bracts opposite or 8 in a whorl at the base of the umbel, 

 sessile, \--\ in. long, \-\\ in. broad, ovate to elliptic, acutely or 

 abruptly terminating in an awn \-\ in. long, cordate at the })ase, 

 glabrous. Involucres solitary, terminal, in the forks of the cyme or 

 sometimes axillary and arranged along the branches in a raceme of 3 or 

 4 very shortly pedunculate, \ in. or more in diam. without the glands, 

 cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and .") subquadrate fringed lobes; 

 glands with the body part '1\ lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 linear-oblong, 2-lipped, whitish-green, with the outer margin divided 

 into 5-6 tiliform violet processes J in. long and crutch-like at their 

 yellow tips. Ovary glabrous, with a distinct cupular several-toothed 

 calyx at its base, exserted on a pedicel \-\ in. long, at first recurved, 

 afterwards erect ; styles 2 lin. long, united at the base, spreading above, 

 slender, with 2-lobed and somewhat crutch-like tips. Capsule and seeds 

 not seen. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Lanfjenbura: district; sides of Ukaiigu 

 Mountain by Lake Nyassa, 1600 (t., Ooetze, 888 ! 



Very similar to E. Orantii, Oliver, but with broader petiolate leaves, different 

 involucre-glands and a larger calyx. 



.57. E* Cervicornu, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. STS. A 

 herbaceous plant 2-8 ft. high {Mann). Stems of the specimens seen, 

 2-2J lin. thick, glabrous. Leaves alternate, 4-6 in. long, ]|-2J in. 

 broad, oblanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, acute or very shortly sub- 

 cuspidate, cuneately tapering into a petiole J-| in. long, glabrous on 

 both sides. Stipules none. Cyme terminal, commencing with a single 

 subsessile terminal involucre, when fully developed 4-4J in. in diam., 

 with 3 primary repeatedly forked rays, forming a rather compact 

 mass, glabrous. Bracts sessile, 4^-7 lin. long, 4-5 lin. broad, sub- 

 orbicular or broadly elliptic, rounded at the apex into a short awn-like 

 point not more than \ in. long, rounded at the base, glabrous. In- 

 volucre solitary at the forks or nodes of the cyme or terminal, subsessile 

 or very shortly pedunculate, 5-6 lin. in diam. from tip to tip of the 

 gland-lobes, cup-shaped, with 4-5 glands and 5 erect oblong or rect- 

 angular lobes rather deeply fringed at the truncate apex, glabrous ; 

 glands large, 1 J-1 J lin. in their greater diam., half -circular, or cuneately 

 subquadrate, yellowish -green, with 2-5 filiform forked red processes 

 about 1^ lin. long on the straight outer margin. Ovary recurved, 

 glabrous ; styles free or shortly connate at the base, 1-1 J lin. long, 



