Uujjhorbia.] cxxit. euphorbiace.e (brown). 547 



involucres in a small cyme or head-like cluster at the apex of very short 

 lateral spur- or tubercle-like branchlets. Peduncles 3^-2 J lin. lon», 

 puberulous or velvety, bearing a pair of obovate bracts 2-2J lin. long, 

 Ij-ljlin. broad, glabrous above, puberulous beneath, ciliate. Involucre 

 ^|-3 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, pubescent or tomentose outside, glabrous 

 within, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rectangular or subquadrate 

 fringed lobes ; glands large, contiguous, peltate, turned outwards, 

 1J-1| lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic or suborbicular, 

 yellow or green. Staminal bracteoles conspicuously woolly. Capsule 

 4J lin. in diam., densely pubescent or subtomentose, erect on a stout 

 pedicel not longer than the remains of the stamens. Seeds about J in. 

 in diam.^ subglobose, smooth. — Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. lO.S. 

 J'J. j(t(jerlana, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. S7. 



XMEozamb. Blstr. CJerman East Africa: steppe west of Lake Kiassi, Jaeger, 

 339 I British Central Africa : Nyasalaml ; near Tsenga (Magunj^a), Kirk I 

 Khoilesia: near Victoria Falls, Galpin, 7056 I Monro, 42il Jiogers, 5306 I between 

 Melsietter and Umtali and otlier parts of Maslionaland, Swynnerton, 691 ! 6611 ! 

 Matopo Hills, .1/m Gihhs,2l\ Matabeleland, Penther, 944! 



The remarkable 3-forked manner of branching and spine-tipped branclilets roaiily 

 ilistingnish this from all other species. 



8G. E. inelegans, N. E. Br. A w^oody branching shrub up to 1 or 

 12 ft. high, with no leaves at the time of flowering. Branches alternate, 

 not spine-tipped, maiked with alternate leaf -scars, very minutely 

 puberulous, finally glabrous, pale brown becoming grey. Leaves not 

 seen. Inflorescence a head-like cluster of 5 shortly pedunculate in- 

 volucres at the apex of the J-G in. -long flowering branchlets. Peduncles 

 about J in. long, minutely puberulous, with a pair of obovate bracts 

 about 2 J lin. long and 1 J lin. broad, glabrous on both sides, minutely 

 ciliate, having a very young involucre in the axil of each, which may 

 ultimately develop. Involucre about J in. in diam., cup-shaped, very 

 minutely puberulous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rectangular or 

 subquadrate fringed lobes ; glands large, peltate, contiguous, turned 

 outwards, Ij lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic or sub- 

 orbicular. Staminal bracteoles conspicuously woolly. Capsule (immature) 

 just exserted from the involucre, erect, minutely tomentose; styles 

 about \ lin. long, free or nearly so, stout, recurved-spreading. entire or 

 bitid. Seeds not seen. — E. matahelensis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. :U1, 

 not of Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 51, t. 2, fig. A. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : Usufua ; Songwe Valley, 3600 ft., 

 6oe(ze, 1052 ! 



This has been confused by Pax with E. matahelensis, from which it conspicuously 

 differs in its alternate spineless branches. 



87. E. espinosa. Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 120. A woody branch- 

 ing shrub, leafless at the time of flowering. Branches alternate, sub- 

 opposite or subverticellate, ascending tovery widely spreading, moderately 

 straight, 1-2 lin. thick, slightly tuberculate at the nodes with flower- 

 scars |-1 lin, in diam., not spine-tipped, glabrous, brown. I^eaves not 



