Eupho7'hia.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (brown). 545 



XVf ozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : steppe near Lake Cliala, 3900 ft » 

 Volkens, 1781 ! 



82. E. cuneata, Vahl, Symh. ii. 53. A woody shrub growing to 

 a height of 10-12 ft.; branches horizontally spreading, often spine- 

 tipped, glabrous or at first puberulous, becoming glabrous with age ; 

 bark brown or greyish. Leaves alternate, scattered along the primary 

 branches and tufted on the very short secondary branchlets, usually 

 J-1 in. long, rarely longer, l^-^J lin. broad, linear-cuneate, cuneately 

 obovate or cuneately spathulate, rounded, truncate or notched at the 

 apex, or rarely subtruncate with a short apiculus, very shortly petiolate, 

 glabrous on both sides or at first minutely puberulous beneath. Cymes 

 terminal and lateral, umbel-like, |-| in. long, including the peduncle, 

 J-| in. in diam., with 3-5 involucres or sometimes reduced to 1 

 involucre, with reduced leaves at the base of the cyme and under the 

 involucres. Peduncles of the cymes and the cyme-branches 1-2^ lin. 

 long, or the involucres sessile, puberulous or glabrous. Involucre 

 2-3 lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped, puberulous' or glabrous outside, 

 glabrous within, with 5 glands and 5 broad transverse subtruncate 

 fringed lobes; glands peltate, concave, transversely elliptic or subor- 

 bicular, entire, J-1 lin. in their greater diam. Capsule erect, 2J lin. in 

 diam., minutely tomentose or puberulous; styles § lin. long, united 

 below or to half-way up, with 3 stout simple or minutely bifid recurved 

 or revolute branches, deciduous in fruit. Seeds \ in. long, ellipsoid, not 

 angular, smooth, brown. — Jaubert k Spach, Illustr. PI. Orient, v. 71, 

 t. 403 ; Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. i. 35, t. 4 ; Boiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 97 (including vars. Perrottetii and carpasus); Terraciano in 

 Ann. Istit.Bot. Koma, v. i)8 and vi. 188; Schweinf . in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 vii. App. ii. 317. E. fruticosa, Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. 

 1219. E. Perrottetii, Jaub. k Spach, Illustr. PI. Orient, v. 72, t. 464. 

 E. carpasus, Ehrenb. ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 98. Lyciopsis 

 cuneata, Schweinf. Beitr. Fi. Aethiop. 37. 



Srile ^and. Nubia: Gebel Kuureb. Schweinfurth, ^^2\ Uarntab Mountain, 

 near Suikin, -Sc/^M;eiV^/'M;•^^, 853 ! Sea-coast, J5eH^ .' Eritrea: 'Yogodele, Ehrenbery I 

 vicinity of Saati, Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 72, 268 ! 355 ! Haressan Isliind, Ferelian 

 Volcano and Achil Island, Terraciano. Soinaliland : Harradigit, James <Sf Thrupp I 

 Web Karanle, Miva, 879; Uadi, Hobecchi, ex Pax. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : Dar es Salaam, Eoltz, 512 ! 1904 ! 

 Kidonga, Holtz, 1075a ! 



Also in Arabia. 



83. E. Currori, iV. ^. ^r. A woody shrub. Branches horizontally 

 spreading, spine-tipped, glabrous, with a grey bark, probably puberulous 

 when young. Leaves alternate on the primary branches, clustered at 

 the ends of the short spur-like secondary branchlets, J-| in. long, 2-3^ 

 lin. broad, oblanceolate, obtusely pointed or subacute, cuneately tapering 

 from above the middle to a subsessile base or very short petiole, thinly 

 puberulous on both sides. Involucre solitary, or 2-3 clustered at the 

 apex of the short lateral spur-like branchlets, on puberulous peduncles 

 J-1 Hn. long, about 2^ lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped, minutely 



