546 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (brown). [Euphorhia. 



puberulous with curved hairs, with 4 glands and 5 broad transverse 

 truncate fringed lobes; glands peltate, | lin. in their greater diam., 

 transversely elliptic, concave, entire. Ovary erect, densely covered with 

 very short straight hairs ; styles short, stout, recurved from the base, 

 truncate or bifid at the apex. Capsule and seeds not seen. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Elephants Bay, Curror, 29 ! 



Very similar to E. cuneata, Vahl, but the leaves are thinner in texture, pube- 

 rulous on both sides, pointed (not rounded nor truncate) at the apex and dry black, 

 the fifth gland of the involucre is absent in this species, but always seems present in 

 E. cuneata. 



84. E. spinescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 120. A thorny woody 

 shrub, leatiess except on the very young growths. Branches alternate, 

 stout, often somewhat zigzag, with straight horizontally spreading 

 ultimate branchlets, rigid, spine-pointed, puberulous when young, 

 becoming glabrous, brown. Leaves alternate on the branchlets, tufted 

 on the very short lateral tubercle-like flowering-spurs, J-| in. long, 

 \-^ in. broad, cuneately-obovate, very obtusely rounded at the apex, 

 tapering from above the middle into a very short petiole, glabrous on 

 both sides. Bracts under the involucres l|-2 lin. long, J-J lin. broad, 

 sessile, resembling reduced leaves, slightly ciliate, soon deciduous. 

 Involucres solitary on the flowering-tubercles, scattered along the 

 branchlets, subsessile or on peduncles J-f lin. long, cup-shaped, about 

 2i lin. in diam., glabrous, with A glands and 5 subquadrate or rect- 

 angular long-fringed lobes ; glands distant, somewhat trumpet-shaped, 

 but open nearly to the base on the inner side, about § lin. long and 

 ^-| lin. in diam. Ovary exserted on a podicel about as luug as the 

 involucre, tomentose ; styles stout, about J lin. long, shortly united at 

 the base, then spreading, Avith revolute tips. Capsule exserted on a 

 pedicel, not much exceeding the involucre and staminal remains, 

 tomentose. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: steppe near Pangani swamp, Jaeger^ 

 99! Masai steppe, Jaeger, 60! 98! Fischer, 524! near Same, in Pare district, 

 Uhlig, 95 ! 



Allied to E. cuneata, Vahl, but with stouter dark brown branches and solitary 

 Involucres. It is quoted by Pax under E. jaegeriana, Pax ( = E. mafahelensis. 

 Pax), but is totally different from that species in its mode of branching, glabrous 

 leaves and solitary glabrous involucres, with entirely different glands. 



85. E. xnatabelensis, Pax in Ann. Xaturhist. Ilofmus. Wien, 

 XV. 51, t. 2, fig. A. A woody branching spiny shrub up to 10 ft. high, 

 with leaves only on the very young parts or when flowering. Branches 

 usually in whorls of 3, radiating from the apex of a branch of the pre- 

 vious year, usually spine-pointed, minutely puberulous or velvety, finally 

 glabrous, grey or brown. Leaves alternate or tufted, J-IJ in. long, 

 1-6 lin broad, linear-lanceolate to cuneately obovate, acute, gradually 

 tapering from above the middle into a short petiole, glabrous above 

 except on the basal half of the midrib, softly pubescent to nearly glab- 

 rous beneath. Inflorescence of 1-5 pedunculate or sometimes subsessile 



