536 cxxii. EUPUORBIACE.E (buown). [EuphorUa. 



broken up into a corymbose cyme of forked branches, glabrous. Bracts 

 S-5 lin. long and broad, orbicular-ovate, obtuse or rounded, apiculate, 

 broadly rounded at the sessile base, entire or subdenticulate, with very 

 narrow cartilaginous margins, those at the base of the umbel G->> lin. 

 long, 2-3 lin. broad, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 minutely denticulate, deflexed, all glabrous on both sides. Involucre 

 sessile, when mature IJ-lJ lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 

 4 glands and T) subquadrate toothed or subentire more or less ciliate 

 lobes ; glands J-1 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, with 

 a straight dorsal margin and a minute tooth (scarcely a horn) at each 

 end of it. Capsule about IJ lin. long, somewhat ovoid, obtusely ij-angled, 

 glabrous, exserted on a recurved pedicel ; styles |-| lin. long, nearly free 

 or shortly united at the base, bifid at the apex. Seeds about 1 lin. long, 

 oblong, 4-angle(l, subtruncate at each end, ol)Scurely rugulose, caruncu- 

 late. — K. cebrhia, Jlochst. ex Klotzsch tt Garcke in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 

 1800, 86, name only. L\ cerehrina, Jiochst. ex Boiss. in DO. Prodr. 

 XV. ii. 14(5. TrthymalKs petUiantf, Klotzsch it Garcke in Abh. Akad. 

 Berlin, 18G(), i)0. T. cehrinas, Klotzsch ct Garcke, I.e. 86, name only ; 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 31). 



wile Iiand. Abyssinia: Wojenit, Petit! Debra Eski, Schimper, 937, ex 

 Boissier. 



This is closely allied to E. schimperiana, Sclieele, but is ])ossibly perennial, with 

 several stems to a root and more densely leafy; the minutely toothed Hnd smaller 

 leaves and larp^or involucres also sufficiently distinguish it. The ovary does not 

 appear to become exserted from the involucre at so early a st-.tge as it does in 

 E. schimperiana. The description is made from the type kindly lent by Prof. 

 Lecomte. 



68. E. repetita, J/ochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 240. 

 Annual ? Stem 2-4 ft. high, hollow, glabrous, divided at the apex into 

 a 5-rayed umbel of repeatedly forked lax cymes, with few or several 

 similar cyme-branches arising from the axils of the leaves below the 

 umbel. Leaves alternate, with a whorl of 5 at the base of the umbel, 

 1|-3J in. long, 2-4 lin. broad, lanceolate-linear, subacute, narrowed at 

 the base into a short petiole, glabrous on both sides. Rays of the 

 umbel and cyme-branches 4-10 in. long. Bracts subsessile. very 

 spreading, ^-1 in. long, 1 ^-3-|- lin. broad, ovate or lanceolate, acute to 

 obtuse, rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides. Involucre solitary 

 at the forks or nodes of the cymes, shortly })edunculate, 1 lin. in diam., 

 campanulate, with 4 glands and 5 subquadrate lobes, bifid or subtruncate 

 at the apex, ciliate ; glands about J lin. in their greater diam., transverse, 

 crescent-shaped, witli the 2 short horns usually much incurved, some- 

 times nearly or quite meeting, occasionally they are nearly or quite 

 absent and the gland is merely notched or almost entire on the outer 

 margin, all forms are found on the same plant. Capsule about 1| lin. 

 in diam., smooth, glabrous ; styles J-J lin. long, free, shortly bifid at the 

 apex. Seeds not seen. — Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 156-; Engl. Iloch- 

 gebirgsfl. Trop, Afr. 288. E. Brevicornu, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 88. 

 Tithymalus repetitus, Klotzsch Si Garcke in Abh. Akad. BerUn, 18G0, 1)6. 



