542 cxxii. EUPHOKBiACE.E (brown). [Euphorhia. 



probable that when better known it will be found to be only a variety of that species. 

 In appearance it is quite like the variety minor, and only to be distinguished by 

 the involucre-glands. 



77. IS. cyparissioides, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 123. Perennial^ 

 with a woody rootstock, producing a cluster of several or many erect 

 herbaceous terete stems 10-12 in. high, |-1 lin. thick, simple or branch- 

 ing at the top, glabrous. Leaves alternate on the stem and branches, 

 whorled or opposite under the cyme or umbel or at the flowering nodes, 

 reflexed or the upper spreading, ^-1 J in. long, J-2 lin. broad, sessile, 

 linear, acute or obtuse, mucronate, with revolute margins, glabrous on 

 both sides, possibly glaucous. Stipules none. Involucres solitary or 

 congested in small head-like cymes, terminal, very shortly pedunculate, 

 about IJ lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, with 5 (rarely 7) 

 glands and 5 transversely rectangular or subquadrate fringed lobes ; 

 glands \-\ lin. in their greater diam., transverse, with the outer margin 

 straight or obtusely many-toothed or crenulate. Capsule exserted 

 much beyond the involucre, erect, \ in. in diam. at the base, slightly 

 narrowing above, glabrous. Seeds l^-lj Hn. long, ellipsoid, smooth, 

 with a small rugose caruncle, pale grey, sometimes irregularly spotted 

 with brown. — De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 281); 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 1)51. E. genistoides, Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 952, not of Berg. E. ericifolia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxxiii. 288. £. huillensis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 27. 



Nile X<and. Dar Fertit: at Dem Gudyu, Schweinfurth, Ser. iii, 149 ! Niam- 

 niani : at the River Ibba, Schweinfurth, 3979 ! 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; between Quisonde and Condo^ 

 WelicHsch,2SQ\ Huilla; near Lopoilo, Welivitsch, 285! Dekindt, 1029! Malange, 

 Buck tier, 677 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : between Lake Nyasa and the Congo, 

 Descanips (ex De Wildeman). 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : without precise locality, Oaffron,. 

 97 ! llhodosia : Northern Melsetter, Svjynnerton, 6217 ! Rusapi, Engler, 3112 1 

 Kafulafula River, Rogers, 8408 ! 



Var. minor, X. E. Br. Stems 4^10 in. high, ^-|- lin. thick. Leaves 2-5 lin. 

 long, usually rather few and \-h in. apart, spreading or reflexed, linear to oblong 

 or ovate, with revolute margins, glaucous. Involucres sometimes 2-5 in a small lax 

 terminal cyme, sometimes congested into small head-like cymes \-^ in. in diatn.; 

 glands ^-1 lin. in their greater diam., very variable, transversely elliptic with the 

 outer margin slightly irregular, or nearly as long as broad with the outer margin 

 crenately several toothed or 3-lobed, or transversely oblong with the outer margin 

 produced into a minute tooth at each end and either straight or with a third obtuse 

 tooth or crenation between, yellow ; otherwise as in the type. 



Ziower Guinea. Angola : near the Cunene River, Johnston ! near the 

 Kubango River, Gossweiler, 1857 ! 1926 ! by the Quango River, Pogge, 119 ! 



Mozamb. I>istr. Portuguese East Africa: Gazaland; Inyamadzi Valley, 

 2500 ft., Swynnerton, 1533 ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Songwe 

 and Karonga, Whyte ! Rhodesia; between Broken Hill zinc-mine and Bwana 

 M'Cuba copper-mine, Allen, 354! near Melsetter, Swynnerton, 6043! 6044! hills 

 near Haroni River, Swynnerton, 1529 ! North-west Rhodesia, Kdssner, 2125! 



Like several species which produce annual stems from a perennial rootstock, this 



