538 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE.E (brown). [Euphoo'hio, 



lin. in diam., verrucose-tuberculate, glabrous; styles 1-1 J lin. long, 

 united below, bifid at the apex. Seeds 1-1 J lin. long, ellipsoid, with a 

 small caruncle, smooth, glabrous, light brown or grey. — Boiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. Ill), 12G6 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Tiop. Afr. 286; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 330 ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxxix. 631. £. shirensis, Baker f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 38. 

 JiJ. lepidocarpa, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 287. J'J. trachycarpa, Pax 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 2'6^. E. multiradiata^ Pax k Hoffm. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xlv. 240. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Cameroons: Bansso Mountain, 6000 ft., Leder- 

 mann, 2006 ! 



Wile Xiand. Eritrea : Mount Bizen, Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1895 ! 2050 ! 

 A'aiheXsLCO, Schtveinfurth,ZA:\, and Sabr ^ioMntniw, Svhweinfurth, 1538 fax Schicein- 

 furfh). Abyssinia : Aniba Sea, Schimper, 290 I Mount Sboloda, Schimj)er, 336 ! 

 1532! Nori, ,'Sfeudner, 544. Wojerat, Quartin-Dillon Sf Petit, ^-^l Ankober, Roth, 

 103 ! Metscha, Rosen ex Fax. Somaliland, EUenbeck, 590 ! 1413 ! 1827 ! British 

 East Africa: Nandi, James ! Mount Kenia, Gregory l Aberdare Mountains, «/rtme« .' 

 Ukaniba, Scott-'ElUot, 6406 ! 



XlXozaxnb. Bistr. German East Africa: Urundi, iSco^^-^/Zzo^, 8111 ! Usam- 

 l)ara, Buchioald, 176! 608! Encjler, 1087! various localities, Jaeger, 201! 225! 

 469! Prittwitz Sf Graffon, 174 I Portuguese South Africa: Namuli Hills, Last! 

 British Central Africa: Nyasaland; N>il<a Mountains, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 

 Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whgte ! Mount Malosn, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! 

 Cameron, 10! Mount Zoniba, Whyte! Mount Mlanji, Whyte! Rhodesia: at 

 Mount Pene or Sirigwenwe, 7000 ft., iSivynnerton, 6041 ! near Haroni River, 

 5500 ft., lSivynnerto7i, 1528 ! 



"V'ar. pubescens, Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 188. Stems pubescent. 

 Involucre glabrous, otherwise as in the type. 



ITile Ziand. Somalilaud : between Biddome and Olghe, Riva, 1234! 1360. 



\i\v. puhijlora, N. E. Br. Apjjarently a more robust form. Stems probably 18 in. 

 or more higli, usually branching at the top, glabrous. Involucres villous-pubescent 

 outside. Ovary and capsule glabrous or pubescent. Otherwise as in the type. 



Mozamb. Bistr. British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Nyika Plateau, 6000- 

 7000 ft., Whyte ! between Mpata and the Nyika Plateau, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte! 



Var. aprica, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxix. 631. Branches unequal, the sterile pro- 

 cumbent and densely leafy, those producing tlowers erect with few leaves ; internodes 

 BQore or less elongated. 



Xlle land. Abyssinia : East Shoa, at Akaki, Rosen ex Pax. 



This species varies considerably in appearance, so that different specimens 

 «pl)ear to represent lotally different si)ecies. A form common in Nyasaland and 

 Geinian East Africa with fewer, smaller and more elliptic leaves than in the type, 

 has been distinguished under the names oi E. shirensis, E. trachycarpa, E. lepido- 

 c«;-/>a, and E. viultiradiata. This form appears to me always to consist of secondary 

 growths after the annual burnings of the savannahs, in some cases the specimens 

 even bear branches on which the leaves are lanceolate and more numerous, exactly 

 as in the type, whilst other specimens from Nyasaland are quite the same as the 

 Abyssinian plant, and structurally all are identical. Other species vary in the same 

 way. The root is said to be used as a remedy for tape-worm. 



71. E. usambaricay Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 122. A large 

 branching herb (or shrub ?) up to 4 J ft. high. Stems or main branches 

 somewhat umbellately branching or forked from points wliere umbels 



