Euphorbia.] cxxii. euphorbiace.e (brown). 553 



about 4 simple rays 3-10 lin. long, each with 1 involucre and a pair of 

 orbicular-obovate thin bracts about 2 lin. long and broad, glabrous. 

 Involucre shortly pedunculate within the bracts, about 2 lin. in diam., 

 ■cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 rounded subentire lobes 

 slightly woolly on their inner surface ; glands §-| lin. in their greater 

 diam., suborbicular, or transversely elliptic, yellow {TJtoniiiny). Ovary 

 globose-trigonous, glabrous, exserted on a pedicel about 2 lin. long and 

 curved to one side ; styles about 1 lin. long, shortly united at the 

 base, then widely spreading, emarginate or minutely 2-lobed at the 

 apex. Capsule and speeds not seen. — Boiss. in 1)0. Prodr. xv. ii. IK). 

 E.. togoensis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 224. 



Upper Cuinea. Togo : Kratye, Thonniug ! (liiuitja ?), Boering, 190 ! Lagos : 

 Epp:ih, Barter, 3309 ! 



A specimen [Dalziel, S27) from Katagum district, Xorthern Nigeria, is probably 

 this species, but tlie styles are deejily bifid with diverging recurved tips. Also a 

 sjiecimeu collected near Lome in Togo [Bus'ie, 3260) probably belongs here. In 

 Thonning's type specimen the umbel is really terminal, but a branch growing out 

 at its base and falsely appearing to be continuous with that which bears it, makes 

 the umbel seemingly lateral. 



08. E. gossypina, Pax in Engl Jahrh. xix. 110. A bush 2-3 ft. 

 high, formed of a mass of long slender naked succulent interwoven 

 stems and branches, leafy only on the young growth for a short period. 

 Branches ascending or making a right-angle with the stems or main 

 branches or becoming pendulous, 2-3^ lin. thick in the specimens seen, 

 terete, with small crescent-shaped leaf-scai'S, glabrous. Leaves alternate, 

 whoiled at the base of the umbel, sessile, reflexed, soon deciduous, those 

 on the stem ^-Ijin. long, l-2Jlin. broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, narrowed towards the base, the upper sometimes shorter and 

 broader and becoming more elliptic or ovate, tho.'^e of the whorl usually 

 3-5 lin. long and 1 ^-3|^ lin. broad, ovate to orbicular, very obtusely 

 rounded to acute and apiculate, but sometimes like those of the stem, 

 all glabrous on both sides. Stipules none. Umbel terminal, simple, 

 with a central shortly pedunculate involucre which is male and deciduous 

 and -1-5 rays|-ljin. long, each with 1 hermaphrodite involucre and a 

 pair of reflexed elliptic obtuwse bracts about 3 lin. long and 2 lin. broad, 

 glabrous. Involucres on peduncles 1 \-'2 lin. long, broadly and shallowly 

 cup-shaped, about \ in. in diam., glabrous, but with a dome-like mass 

 of very white woolly bracteoles filling the interior, with 5-0 large 

 glands and 5-G subquadrate lobes, notched or slightly toothed at the top, 

 with a fringe of very fine weak hairs, which appear to arise from the inner 

 surface and are only seen (on dried specimens) when the lobe is placed 

 in water; glands turned outwards, lJ-2 lin. in their greater diam., 

 transversely elliptic to suborbicular, flattish, entire or slightly crenate 

 on the outer margin. Ovary exserted above the dome of woolly bracts, 

 erect, glabrous; styles IJ lin. long, united at the base, deeply bifid at 

 the apex with revolute tips. — E. imjylexa, Stapf in Kew lluUetin, 

 1908, 408. 



wile I.and. Uganda: Mawokotn, 3900 ft., ^ro2i?«, 414 ! British East Afi ica, 

 between Ribc and tlie Galla Country, Wakefield! 



