Uuj/horbia.] c:xxii. EUnioRBiACEE (brown). 54I 



2-'2l lin. in diam., glabrous ; styles about 1 lin. long, united at the base, 

 with spreading bifid tips. Seeds 1 J lin. long, cylindric-oblong, smooth* 

 black, with a yellow caruncle, slightly shining, 



Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa : Chimauimuiii Mountains, TOOQ ft. 

 Swynnertoii, 1526! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mlanji Plateau, 6000 ft ' 

 WIttite, 2-A ! Tuchila Plateau, 6000-7000 ft.. Purees, 99 ! 



75. E. Wellbyi, N. E. Br. Perennial, with a woody rootstock, 

 producing a clump of erect unbranched stems 5-7 in. high and \-\ lin. 

 thick, very rough below from the prominent scars of fallen leaves, leafy 

 above, puberulous below the base of each leaf. Stem-leaves alternate, 

 ascending and loosely imbricating, sessile, \-\ in. long, \-'l\ lin. broad, 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute and as if pinched together into an 

 apiculus at the apex, more or less rounded at the base, glabrous on both 

 sides. Floral leavet> or bracts whorled at the base of the inflorescence, 

 opposite under the involucres, 2-5 lin. long, 2|-:^J lin. broad at the 

 base, somewhat triangular-ovate to broadly reniform-ovate, acute, very 

 broadly tuneate to subruncate at the base, otherwise as the stem- 

 leaves. Stipules none. Umbel terminal, about \ in. in diam., with 5 

 short puberulous rays, each with 1-2 short secondary rays. Involucre 

 IJ-lJ lin. in diam., somewhat pear-shaped, glabrous outside, with \ 

 glands and 5 small oblong minutely ciliate lobes ; glands about ^ lin. in 

 their greater diam., somewhat crescent-shaped, with 2 long subulate 

 horns. Ovary glabrous; styles \ lin. (or perhaps more finally) long, 

 free almost to the base, very shortly bifid. Capsule and seeds not seen, 

 but the former evidently exserted on a pedicel twice as long as the 

 involucre and erect. 



Xile iLand. Abyssinia: Hawasli and Maki Kivcrs, Weill y ! 



76. E. dejecta, i\'^. E. Br. Perennial, with a thick woody ro')t- 

 stock, producing clumps of herbaceous stems 2i-10 in. high, §-1 liu. 

 thick, branching at the top, glabrous. Leaves very numerous, alternate, 

 except at the flowering nodes, sessile, reflexed, J-| in. long, |— 1 lin. 

 broad, linear, acute or obtuse, mucronate, with revolute margins, 

 glabrous on both sides. Stipules none. Involucres solitary and terminal 

 or 'l-'o in a small terminal cyme or umbel, often mingled with very short 

 densely leafy shoots, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, about 2 lin. in 

 diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, with 5 glands and 5 subquadrate 

 fringed lobes; glands about | lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 oblong, entire or slightly notched at the middle of the outer margin and 

 with 2 long subulate horns. Capsule exserted on along slender pedicel, 

 at first reflexed, finally erect, 2 J lin. in diam., glabrous ; styles about 

 \ lin. long, free to the base, bifid at the apex. Seeds ellipsoid, smooth, 

 glabrous. 



IKIozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Xyasaland ; Taufjanyika Plati-uM 

 at Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte 1 Fwanibo, Carson, 12, probably belonirs here, 

 but flowers are wanting-. 



As the foi-m of the involucre-f^liinds has hitherto been considered to be a prooil 

 specific character, 1 have not united this with E. cyparissioides^ although I think ii 



