5()4 cxxii. EUPUORBiACE.f: (brown). [Kuphorhut, 



with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong lobes, broadly cuneate at their 

 base and deeply fringe-toothed at the truncate top ; glands l|-2 lin. in 

 their greater diam., transverse, with a very rounded outer and straight 

 raised or rim-like inner margin, entire. Ovary acutely 3-angled, with 

 a calyx of 3 minute rounded lobes about \ lin. long at its base, glabrous, 

 on a very short stout pedicel, with only the styles exserted beyond the 

 level of the stamens at the time of flowering ; styles J lin. long, united 

 for about J of their length, then spreading, with thickened channelled 

 truncate stigmas. Capsule and seeds not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Reirent, Scott-Elliot, 4112! 



118. E. graciliramea, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiv. 78. A leafless 

 spiny succulent. The type consists of 5 simple fleshy branches 5-GJ in. 

 \ong and \ in. tliick, but probably stouter when alive, somewhat 4-angled, 

 from opposite pairs of short teeth running out into long spines and 

 decurrent below, but without horny margins. Leaves rudimentai-y, 

 minute, scale-like. Spines J-§ in. long, opposite, widely spreading, 

 solitary, with '2 minute prickles at the base of each, grey. Flowering- 

 eyes in the axils of the spines. Involucres 3 together, sessile, lJ-1 J lin. 

 in diam., broadly obconic, glabrous, with 5 glands and i") erect sub- 

 quadrate fringe-toothed lobes ; glands contiguous, about § lin. in their 

 greater diam., transversely oblong, entire. Ovary glabrous, with a 

 small cupular subtruncate calyx at its base, shortly pedicellate, perhaps 

 ultimately exserted ; styles § lin. long, united at the base, then recurved- 

 spreading, with rather large capitate entire stigmas. 



ZSast Africa (German or liritisli !■') : without precise locality, Fischer, 522 ! 



ir.). E. triaculeata, Forsk. FL J'J(/)/j)t.-Arab.^H. A bushy leafless 

 >spiny succulent, (^-"20 in. high. Stems or branches 3-5 lin. thick (dried), 

 v5-5- (rarely 7-) angled; angles sometimes very prominent, compressed 

 i(in dried specimens), with deep notches, forming triangular teeth 

 '(? tubercles when alive) nearly as long as broad, sometimes but slightly 

 prominent and more iil)-like, with slightly raised teeth, each margined 

 with a horny grey linear shield having a short lobe on each side at its 

 apex, bearing 1 straight needle-like spine -J-lj in. long with a pair of 

 prickles J-1 J lin. long at its base. Cymes small, solitary in the axils of 

 the teeth, with 3 involucres, subsessile. Bracts scale-like, about -§ lin. 

 long, ovate or suborbicular, concave, obtuse, minutely toothed. Invo- 

 lucre l|-2 lin. in diam., perhaps larger when alive, broadly funnel- 

 shaped, glabrous, with the glands united into an entire or 5-6-lobed 

 spreading rim, rarely partly free, surrounding 5-6 transversely rectan- 

 gular or subquadrate fringed lobes. Ovary not exserted in the specimens 

 seen, glabrous ; styles J lin. long, very shortly united at the base, 

 slender, entire and slightly thickened at the apex. Capsule and seeds 

 not seen.— Yahl, Symb. ii. 53; Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 884; lioiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 85 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 3(>, and in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. vii. App. ii. 328 ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 78 ; Berger, Sukk. 

 Euphorb. 88. E. triacantha, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 79, not of 



