Euphorlia.'] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (brown). 569 



XWrozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Ubungu ; on the Olunga Mountains, 

 4900 ft., Goetze, 1095 ! 



Described from the type. This is extremely like E. Schinzii in appearance, hut 

 the pedunculate cymes, with the central involucre also pedunculate, easily distinguish 

 it from that species. 



128. E. tetracanthoides. Pax in Engl. Jahrh, xxx. 342. A 

 leafless spiny succulent, 8-12 in. high and up to 2 ft. in diam. Branches 

 4-5 lin. in diam. when dried, 5-7 lin. when alive, 4-angled, glaucous. 

 Angles subcompressed, crenate or with broadly rounded teeth. Leaves 

 rudimentary, scale-like, deltoid, acute. Spines 1-2 lin. long, in pairs 

 ^-^ in. apart, diverging, grey, with a pair of minute and often re- 

 curved prickles near their base, on horny grey shields decurrent nearly 

 or quite to the flowering-eyes below, occasionally forming continuous 

 horny margins to the stem-angles. Flowering-eyes touching the apex 

 of the shields but not enclosed in them. Cymes solitary, probably 

 sessile, with 3 involucres, but very immature. — Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxxiv. 82. 



Mozamb. Bistr. German East Africa: Livingstone (Kinga) Mountains, 

 Qoetze, 1004 ! 



129. El. coerulans, Pax in Bull. Herh. Bolss. vi. 739. A spiny leafless 

 succulent, apparently with a large fleshy irregular or tuberous rootstock, 

 producing numerous erect unbranched stems 1-2 in. long and about J in. 

 thick, thinner when dried, 4-angled, glabrous, apparently light green ; 

 angles scarcely toothed or tuberculate, with obovate grey horny shields 

 2-2J lin. long and IJ-lJ in. broad, 2-4 lin. apart, pointed below, sub- 

 truncate at the apex, bearing 2 pairs of grey spines, with the upper pair 

 minute or up to 1 lin. long and the lower about 2 lin. long, straight, 

 diverging. Leaves rudimentary, minute and scale-like. Flowering-eyes 

 at the apex of the spine-shields. Involucres 3 together, crowded, sessile, 

 2 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 or rarely 4 glands and 

 5 subquadrate fringed lobes; glands contiguous, spreading, 1-1 J lin. in 

 their greater diam., transversely oblong, entire, yellow. Ovary very 

 young, sessile, glabrous; styles 1 lin. long, shortly united at the base, 

 slender, entire at the apex. Mature ovary and capsule not seen. — Pax 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 81, 375. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: li\\m\^a.iii, 3Iiss Fritzsr7ie,2\H\ DeJcindi, S29. 



The type, which 1 have not seen, is described as having- stems up to 3|-in. loupr, 

 but Miss Fritzsche's specimen, named E. cunnilaas by Dr. Pax, otherwise agrees with 

 the origiuid description. 



130. E. tortistyla, X.E. Br. Probably dwarf, succulent, leafless, 

 spiny, glabrous. Branches of the only specimen seen 2-3 J in. long, \ in. 

 or less thick, subcylindric ? or obscurely 4-angled ; angles not evident 

 except by the arrangement of the spine-pairs, and certainly rounded, not 

 sinuate. Leaves not seen, probably rudimentary and scale-like. Spines 

 -J-2J lin. long, in pairs on small ovate or elliptic horny shields 3-5 lin. 

 apart, arranged in opposite pairs in 4 vertical series, greyish. Flowering 



