Euphorbia.] cxxii. euphorbiace.e (brown). 559 



of the cyme or terminal, narrowly campanula te or obconic and about 

 IJ lin. in diam., with 2 glands and 5 erect oblong or subquadrate 

 deeply-fringed lobes, glabrous; glands 1| lin. long, erect, resembling a 

 narrow slightly flattened tube, slit down the inner side nearly to the 

 base, with incurved margins when dried, minutely toothed at the trun- 

 cate apex, yellow. Ovary exserted on a pedicel bent nearly at a right angle, 

 erect in fruit, glabrous ; styles 1 J lin. long, connate almost or quite to the 

 very apex into a slender upcurved column, which is divided into G or 

 fewer minute stigmas. Capsule J in. in diam. Seeds I4-2 lin. long, 

 ovoid, subacute at one end, smooth, encircled by :^ series of slight bumps, 

 scarcely tubercles. — Boiss. Ic. Euphorb. IG, t. 47. A\ lonyetuherculata, 

 Boiss. in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 12G4. Tithymalus Brauni, Schweinf. in 

 Journ. Bot. 18G3, 295, and Beitr. Fl.Aethiop. 38. 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia : mountains near Gursarfa, 3303-3500 ft., Schimper, 

 2307 ! near Goelleb, Schimper, 221 ! Somaliliiiul : limestone rocks oa the maritime 

 plain, Thomson, 89 ! Somadu, ELlenheck, 276 ! 



Also in Arabia. 



109. E. Pirottae, Terrace, in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, v. 97. A 

 dwarf perennial herb. Main stem 1 in. or more high, simple, thick and 

 turnip-shaped, marked with leaf-scars, then densely dichotomously 

 branched, striate, pilose ; branches slender, diverging. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, cuneate at the base, tapering into a long petiole. Cymes sub- 

 sessile at the apex of the branches. Involucres few, on long peduncles, 

 shortly campanulate, many- toothed, pilose, white-hairy within. Pe- 

 duncles (? pedicels) recurved in fruit. Capsule deeply sulcate-trigonous, 

 with rounded angles, densely hairy ; styles short, united at the base, 

 bifid at the apex. Seeds cylindric-subtrigonous, compressed at the apex, 

 somewhat rounded on the back and transversely and irregularly greyish- 

 undulated (? rugose), with the other sides only undulated at the margins. 



XVile Kand. Eritrea : Midir Island in Haoifila Bay, Terracciaiio. 



1 10. E. napoides, Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 187. Peren- 

 nial. Stem erect, 1-1 J in. high, J- J in. thick, unbranched, cylindric, 

 fleshy, covered with small tubercles, from which the leaves and cymes 

 arise, naked below, bearing a cluster of leaves and cymes at the very 

 obtuse or subtruncate apex, glabrous. Leaves 1 J-2 in. long (or perhaps 

 longer as the tips are all broken off in the specimen seen), J-1 lin. broad, 

 linear, longitudinally folded and more or less incurved, entire, petiolate, 

 thinly and minutely pubescent, glabrous to the eye. Cymes (including 

 the J-| in. -long peduncle) |-1J in. or less long, once-forked, with an 

 involucre in the fork and 1-2 on each branch or sometimes reduced to 

 bearing only 1 involucre with the lateral branches suppressed, pube- 

 rulous with minute white curved hairs. Bracts sessile, about 1 J lin. long, 

 f lin. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, concave, 

 puberulous on both sides. Involucres sessile, cup-shaped, white-pube- 

 rulous, 1 lin. in diam., with 4 glands and 5 subquadrate toothed or bifid 

 lobes ; glands incurved-erect in dried specimens, perhaps spreading when 

 <ilive,suborbicular and J-Jlin. in diam., with a very shallow dark-coloured 



