A'jrphorhla.] cxxri. euphorbiace.e (brown). 557 



base, divided into three ovate acute or obtuse entire lobes J-| lin. long^ 

 pubescent, exserted on a pubescent pedicel about 41in. long; styles 1 lin. 

 long, united to the middle or slightly beyond, puberulous, with spread- 

 ing arms, channelled above and 2-lobed at thea pex. Capsule 5 lin. in 

 diam., subglobose, obscurely trigonous, pubescent, with woody cell-walls 

 J in. thick. Seeds not seen, destroyed by a gall-fly in the specimens 

 seen. — A'. 'Virucalli, Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 2^S^ and Hiern in Cat. A.t'r. PI. 

 Welw. i. 049, partly, not of Linnaeus. 



Ziower Guinea. Angola : Loanda ; about Loanda, Welioitsch, 630 1 Goss- 

 weiJer^ 474! Rattray! Biichner, 532! Golungo Alto; thickets of Sobato de 

 Buniba, near Camilungo, Welwitsch, 651 ! 



This may be the plant quoted by Pax as E. Tirucalli^ Linn., in Bull. Soc. IJot. 

 IJelg.' xxxvii. 108; in De Wild. & Diirand, Coutrib. Fl. Cougo, i. 52, and Ki'li(i. 

 Dewevr. 203, :ind in De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, i. 143. But it is quite distinct 

 from the true E. Tiriicalli, Linn., which is an Indian plant. 



105. E. scoparia, X. E. Br. A tree 15-25 ft. high. Brancldets 

 alternate and usually clustered at the ends of larger branches, terete, 

 succulent, spineless, leafless except when ver}'', young, |-o lin. thick, 

 marked with small leaf-scars, glabrous. Leaves soon deciduous, alternate, 

 distant below, clustered at the ends of the branchlets, -J— § in. long, 

 ^-J lin. broad, linear or cuneately linear, subacute, sessile, somewhat 

 fleshy, glabrous. Inflorescence a small dense sessile cluster of involucres 

 at the tips of the branchlets, about |-J in. in diam. Bracts minute, 

 scale-like, suborbicular. Involucres subsessile or very shortly peduncu- 

 late, scarcely 1 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 

 or fewer oblong or ovate subciliate lobes ; glands J— J lin. in their greater 

 diam., transversely elliptic, entire. Ovary erect, on a stout pedicel about 

 as long as the involucre, glabrous; styles \ lin. long, free, very deeply 

 bifid. — E. Tirucalli, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. ?)1(!, 

 not of Linn. E. Schimj^eri, Pax in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 285, 

 l)artly, not of Presl. 



Wile Z.and. Eritrea : near Mai Maf nles, 5500-6200 ft., Schweinfurth, 345 ! 

 Sudan: Dakila, south of Koseires, J/z<rie/, 67 ! Abyssinia: Schahagenne, ^Sc•/^^^;^^^e;•, 

 896! 



The uame E. TirucaUl has been applied to several African species of Euphorbia, 

 but all of them are very distinct from the true E. Tiriicalli, Linn., which is a native 

 of India, although in the Flora of Britisli India it is stated, to bave been probably 

 introduced there from Africa. There is, however, no evidence of this and the Indian 

 plant is certainly perfectly distinct from all tiie Africin specimens I have seen. 



lOG. E. negromontana, N. E. Br. A succulent shrub ;>-4 ft. high, 

 leafless and spineless, dichotomously or trichotomously much-branched 

 from the base, fleshy, glaucous, probably dia^cious ; stems or branches 

 J-J in. thick in the specimens seen, terete, glabrous ; branchlets 

 opposite, articulated to the branches, 1-1 j lin. thick (dried), probably 

 "2 lin. or more thick when alive, with the barren ones 4-11 in. long, 

 diverging, straight, and the flowering abbreviated into joints J-J in. long 

 and more or less congested or clustered. Leaves opposite, rudimen- 

 tary, reduced to very minute scales. Involucres solitary or o together. 



