548 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE.E (broavn). [Eu])horhia. 



seen, probably small and very deciduous, leaving crescent-shaped scars. 

 Involucres solitary, sessile along the branches in the axils of the leaf- 

 scars, male or hermaphrodite, l|--i Hn. in diam., cup-shaped, with 5 

 glands and 5 subquadrate fringed lobes, glabrous outside, pubescent 

 under the glands within, surrounded at the base by about (i suborbicular 

 or broadly ovate bud-scales, very obtuse or rounded at the apex, ciliate 

 on the margin, with the outer much smaller and more coriaceous than 

 the inner ; glands j-1 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic- 

 oblong, nearly straight on the inner margin, entire or faintly crenulate 

 on the outer. Staminal bracteoles pubescent, but not conspicuously 

 woolly. Ovary at first partly included and finally far exserted from the 

 involucre on a slender recurved pedicel, subglobose, glabrous, with a 

 very rudimentary calyx ; styles §-| lin. long, united for J of their 

 length, then recurved-spreading, rather stout, shortly bifid at the apex. 

 Capsule J in. in diam., with 3 rounded lobes as seen from above, 

 exserted on a curved pedicel J-J in. long, glabrous. Seeds 2h lin. long, 

 ellipsoid, smooth, with a circular or mushroom-shaped caruncle, peltate 

 on a very slender stalk. — B . g^/nophora, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 374. 



IVCozamb. Dlstr. tiermitn P^ast Africa, without precise locality, Fischer. 2S5 ! 

 hotween KisiKiui and Ma»lji-ya-jiin, £'»///<^r, lo/'OI 1586! British Centi-al Africa: 

 Xyasahiiul; Mairomero, south of Lake Sliirwa, Metier! Rhodesia; liuluwayo, CJiiihh, 

 ;M5! Victoria, Monro, 319! 



E. gi/nophora. Pax, is founded upon fruiting specimens of E. espinosa. This 

 species is distinguished fioni E. matabelensis and E. inelegans, N. E. lir., Ly its 

 ])ul)escent (not wooll}) staniinal bracteoles and long-stalked capsules. 



88. E. nodosa, 3". E. Br. " A leaflesstree of 10 to 25 ft., with erect 

 trunk from 1 to 5 inches in diam. Outer bark often peeling off. 

 Branches virgate, but erect" (Gossiceiler). Branches 2-3 lin. thick, 

 tuberculate with prominent flowering cushions 1-2 lin. in diam., and 

 marked with crescent-shaped scars of fallen leaves, glabrous, brown. 

 Leaves evidently very deciduous, perhaps scale-like, not seen. Flower- 

 ing-cushions axillary, tubercle-like, apparently producing floweis for 

 two or more years in succession. Involucres solitary or 2-3 together, 

 ses.sile, 2-2^ lin. in diam., cup-shaped, with 5 glands and 5 transversely 

 rectangular fringed lobes, glabrous outside and within and surrounded 

 by 9-12 adpressed bud-scales, imbricating in about 3 series, with the 

 outer series very small and coriaceous and the inner larger and thin, 

 broadly rounded, ciliate ; glands |-1 lin. broad in their greater diam., 

 transversely oblong, entire, greenish-yellow. Capsule about J in. in 

 diam., glabrous, exserted on a recurved (or perhaps finally erect) pedicel 

 2|-4 lin. long ; styles ^ lin. long, recurved-spreading, bifid at the apex. 

 Seeds 2-2J lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, grey, with a transverse 

 yellow caruncle. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Loandfl, Gosstveiler, 435 1 419 ! abundant a'ong' 

 the liiver Cavaco, east of Benguelb, Gosstveiler, 1695 ! 



80. E. Grosser!, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 288. A tree 12 ft. 

 high. Branchlets J-J in. thick, apparently fleshy when young, crooked, 



