E^tphorhia.^ cxxii. euphorbiace^ ^ brown). 537 



Wile Iiand. Abyssinia : by streams in the valleys of Wogara district, Schimper, 

 1281 ! by streams ill Slioa and Wojerat, Petit, and without precise locality, Quartin- 

 Dil/on dy Fetit,S6l Gallaland ;Abo Wadela, Steudner, b53, ex Engler. British 

 East Africa : 2nd day's march from Eldama Ravine, Whyte ! Aberdnre Mount;du3, 

 James ! Mau Escarpment, Baker, 82 (104) ! 



G9. E. arguta, Soland. in Russell, Nat. Ilisi. Aleppo, ed. 2, ii. 25i{. 

 Annual, o-15 in. high; stem simple or branching at the base, divided 

 at the top into an umbel of o-5 rays, with or without 1 or more rays in 

 the axils of the upper stem-leaves, thinly pilose with long tine hairs, 

 sometimes almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate, oblong- 

 lanceolate, obovate or cuneately oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, sharply 

 .serrate, thinly pilose on one or both sides (at least along the midrib) to 

 nearly glabrous. Stipules none. Rays of the umbel 2J-5 in. long, 

 eymosely 2-4 times divided. Biacts opposite or 3 in a whorl, sessile, 

 ovate, usually acute, broadly rounded to subcordate at the base, serrate, 

 glabrous on both sides or slightly pilose at the very base. Involucre 

 solitary, sessile or subsessile, about \\ lin. in diam., cup-shaped, with 

 4 glands and o transversely rectangular or subquadrate fringed lobes, 

 glabrous ; glands J-J lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, 

 entire. Capsule erect, 2 lin. in diam., glabrous; styles variable, J-j 

 lin. long, free to the base, bifid at the apex. Seeds about Ij lin. long, 

 ellipsoid, nearly smooth, but with a very faint indication of reticulation, 

 dark brown, with a shortly stalked peltate circular caruncle. — Sil)th. 

 Fl. Grreca, v. t. 4()8 ; Boiss. in DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 117. E. calendidcefolia, 

 Delile, Fl. Egjpte, 8U, t. ;3(J, fig. 1. Tlthymalus ccdendnUt^folius, Klotzsch 

 k Carcke in Abb. Akad. Berl. IcSGO, 74. 



Nile Iiand. Nubia : Wady Haifa, Scott-Elliot, 3419 ! 

 Also in Egypt, Asia Minor and South-east Europe. 



70. E. depauperata, Ilochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Ahf/ss. ii. 241. 

 llootstock perennial, woody. Stems 2 to several, herbaceous, or, if not 

 burnt by the annual fires, enduring for 2 or more years and becoming 

 woody and naked below, simple or branched, 4 to 3G in. high, glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, with a whorl of 4-5 at the base of the umbel, J-3 in. 

 long, 2-7 lin, broad, varying fiom linear-lanceolate or lanceolate to 

 elliptic or suborbicular, acute or obtuse, narrowed or rounded into a 

 short petiole or subsessile, those of the whorl sessile and usually shorter 

 and broader than the stem-leaves, glabrous on both sides. Stipules 

 none. Umbel |-2| in. in diam., with 4-5 simple or once divided rays 

 J-2J in. long, often with 1 or more similar rctys arising from the axils 

 of the leaves below the umbel. Bracts 3-4 lin. long, 4-G lin. broad, 

 somewhat reniform-ovate, very broadly ovate or transversely elliptic 

 ovate, obtuse or apiculate. Involucre solitary or more rarely 2-3 on 

 each ray, 2-2|- lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, woolly- 

 pubescent within, with 4-5 glands and 5 subquadrate entire or slightly 

 notched ciliate lobes ; glands |-1 J in. in their greater diam., transversely 

 oblong or elliptic, entire, peltate, with the inner margin incurved or 

 slightly 2-lipped in dried specimens. Capsule far exserted, erect, 2j-3 



