?)56 cxxii. EUPHORBIA CE.E (browx). [EvphwUa. 



103. E. media, N.E. Br. A tree up to 20 ft. high when growing 

 singly, or forming bushes when grown for fences, etc., apparently uni- 

 sexual, only male specimens seen. Branchlets terete, articulated to the 

 branches, leafless except when very young, alternate or clustered, 1--^ 

 lin. thick. Leaves soon deciduous, sessile, 2-5 lin. long, J lin. broad, 

 linear, acute or subobtuse, with a few very minute crisped hairs, chiefly 

 on the under surface. Involucres in dense head-like subsessile terminal 

 clusters J^ in. in diam., cup-shaped, IJ-l-i lin. in diam., puberulous with 

 minute crisped hairs outside, with 5 glands and 5 small ovate to sub- 

 quadrate ciliate lobes; glands distant, peltate, J-J lin. in diam., elliptic 

 or suborbicular. Ovary and capsule not seen. — £. Tirucalli, T. Thorns, 

 in Speke, Journ. Nile, Append. G4{), and Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 144 ; 

 Volkens in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ii. 2('to, not of Linn;^us. 



Mozamb. Slstr. German East Africa: various \ocai[\ties, SpeJce S,' Grauf ! 

 Fischer, 525 ! Busse, 250 ! 2463 ! Volkens, 191 ! Merker, 576 ! Mildbratd, 1082 ! 

 Ku-ssner, 20 ! Hritish Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Karoiiga, Scott ! 



\ay. Bagshavoei, N. E. Br. Involucres larger, about 2 lin. in diani. ami fewer in 

 a cluster tliau in the type; glands | to 1 lin, in diam., sometimes contiguous. Ovary 

 suLglobose, with 3 convex faces altermiting with 3 slender ribs, puberulous with 

 ci is|)ed liiiirs and having a veiy small 3-lobed calyx at its base, far exserted from the 

 involucre on a rather stout erect or slightly curved pedicel 1^3^ lin. long ; 8t;^les 

 v]-f lin. long, stout, united for about -| their length, recurved-spreading, 2-lol)ed at 

 the apex. Capsule about 3.4 lin. in diam., thinly puberulous with very tine cnsi)e(i 

 liairs. Seeds subglobose, about 1;] lin. in diam., smooth, at first white, finally dark 

 brown, with a small yellow caruncle. 



Wile Xand. Uganda: I'nyoro; at Kibero, near Lake Albert, 2200 ft., 

 Jiar/.s/taire, 898! Toro ; at Ihikurnngu, east shore of Lake Kuisambi, 2900 ft., 

 Ba</.s/iau-e, 11961 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Zanzibar: Kokotoni, Stvhlmann, I, 642! Portuguese East 

 Africa : Lower Zambesi at 'i'ete, Kirk ! 



The variety seems only to differ from the ty]ie in having fewer and larger 

 involucres, wi'h larger gland.s, the stems and leaves are identical ; the female of the 

 type is, however, at present unknown, and when foiiud may possibly prove the taoto 

 be distinct species. 



104. E. rhipsaloides, Wehc.inAnn. Consel. Ultramar. Lish. 1S5G, 

 no. 24:, parte nao ojjic. 252, no. 11. A succulent bush 8-12 ft. high, or 

 a tree \')-10 ft. high, with a trunk C-8 in. in diam. {Welvntfich). 

 Branches forked or alternately branching or the branchlets more or less 

 clustered, distinctly jointed to the stems and branches, terete, 2-12 in. 

 long, \\-d lin. thick in the specimens seen, naked, spineless, marked with 

 very small alternate leaf -scars, glabrous. Leaves, according to Webritsch, 

 linear, not seen, only present on young growing branchlets, deciduous. 

 Cymes crowded in terminal head-like clusters J-J in. in diam., 

 ses.sile or subsessile, each with 2-3 involucres. Bracts scale-like, J-J lin. 

 long, broadly ovate or rounded. Jnvolucre 2 lin. in diam. and ij lin. 

 deep, cup-shaped, minutely woolly-puberulous on the upper part, with 

 ^ glands and 5 erect subquadrate toothed or subentire puberulous lobes, 

 yellowish ; glands f-J lin. in their greater diam., peltate, transversely 

 elliptic, apparently somewhat 2-lipped, entire. Ovary with a calyx at its 



