Euphorhia.'] cxxii. euphorbiace.e (brown). 5G7 



Jong, oblong, toothed or lobed at the subtruncate apex. Involucres 

 1|-1^ lin. in diam., with the central one ishortly pedunculate, broadly 

 obconic or funnel-shaped, and the lateral pair subsessile between their 

 bracts, and more cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4-5 glands and 4-5 broadly 

 cuneate fringed lobes; glands f-| lin. in their greater diam., trans- 

 versely oblong, entire, contiguous or perhaps sometimes more or less 

 united. Ovary (young) not exserted, glabrous ; styles £ lin. long, 

 shortly united at the base, entire and not thickened at the apex. 



XTile Iiand. Kritisli East Africa : without locality, Kdssner ! 



Tlio only specimen seen consists of 4 pieces of stem 3—4 in. long, ai)parently split 

 <lown the middle, which are mixed w ith a specimen of E. taitensis. Pax, in the British 

 ]\Iuseum, but have evidently crot misplaced, as other sets of Ktissner's do not contain 

 this species mixed with E. taitensis. It is closely allied to E. qlochidlata, Pax, but 

 differs in having pedunculate cymes and the stem-angles produced into s])ine-like 

 tnbercles which are fleshy with horny margins at the basal 5, whilst in E. gJochidiata 

 the slender forked spine arises direct from the toothless angle. 



121. E. uhligiana. Pax in Enyl. Jahrh. xliii. 80. A dwarf lealless 

 spiny succulent, apparently about 4-8 in. hisfh, branching into several 

 simple or branched stems J-J in. thick when dried, interruptedly 4- 

 angled, with the angles formed of very prominent compressed acute 

 teeth with narrow horny grey margins (shields) more or less prolonged 

 into a sort of neck supporting the spines and decurrent ^-| of the way 

 down to the tooth below. Leaves minute, rudimentary, scale-like. 

 Spiues o-G lin. long, diverging, grey, with a pair of prickles j— 2 lin. long 

 at the base of the tooth. Involucres I-^j together (really in 3-flowered 

 cymes), sessile in the axils of the teeth, Ij lin. in diam., cup-shaped, 

 glabrous, with the erect (? spreading when alive) rim divided into 5-7 

 lobes (glands) by cut-like notches. Ovary and young capsule subsessile, 

 not wholly exserted, glabrous ; styles | lin. long, slender, free nearly to 

 the base, recurved, shortly 2-lobed at the apex. 



xrile l^and. IJritish East Afr'.ca : on very dry rocks at Ngomeni, Scott- 

 Elliot, (3271 ! 



Mozaxnl). Bistr. German East Africa : hill near Ngaruka, Uhlig, 227 ! near 

 Mwenibe, Uhlig, 88 ! Ngrimasi Mountain, Merker, 58i ! 



A^ery closely allied to E. Scliinzii, Pax, but the spines and horny margins of the 

 teeth are grey (brown on IScott-EllioVs specimen, which otherwise seems to be this 

 species) and the apex of the teeth is much more acute and more prolonged than in 

 E. Sckinzii. This species, by the short union of tiie basal part of the two si)ines 

 into one, forms a distinct connecting-link between the single-spined spccits, such as 

 E. triaculeata and E. monacantha, l)y means of E. furcata and E. schizacantha on 

 the one h and and the large scries of distinctly 2-spined species on the other hand. 



125. E. Schinzii, Pax in Bull. Jlerb. Boiss. vi. 730. A dwaif 

 spiny leafless succulent. Stems 4-8 in. high, simple or much-branched, 

 4-angled, 4-5 lin. square, slightly channelled down the sides, with the 

 opposing angles constricted so as to form opposite teeth or lobes j-| in. 

 apart, with their upper slope nearly truncate and that below the spines 

 gradual, margined by the narrow horny brown sliields, which are 

 not produced beyond the Heshy apex of the tooth into a sort of neck 



