672 JCXXII. EUPHORBIACEiE ( BROWN ). [Euphorbict. 



cone at the base, then spreading-recurved, thickened at the apex. 

 Capsule about 1 J lin. in diam. Seeds not seen. 



xrile ]tand. British East Africa : Taita district, at Buitchuma, ^iWeimnrf/^ 

 2859 ! lnep:ii)gu ma chumpe swauo, Kdssner, 430! V^oi, Mildbraed, 12! 



135. E. heterochroma, Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 242. A 

 spiny succulent leafless bush lj-l> ft. high, branching at the base. 

 Branches ascending, when young \-\ in. in diam., less when dried, 

 4-5-angled, usually with distant slight constrictions, sides concave, be- 

 coming nearly flat with age, glabrous, light green, slightly glaucous ; 

 angles slightlycompressed, with the margins even or more or less distinctly 

 sinuate-toothed, sometimes on the same branch and the spine-shield& 

 sometimes united into a continuous dark brown or grey horny border, 

 sometimes interrupted at the flowering-eyes. Leaves rudimentary, 

 scale-like, about | lin. long, ovate, acute. Spines J-3 lin. long, some- 

 times obsolete, in pairs J-£- in. apart, diverging, with or without a pair 

 of minute prickles or points near their base, dark grey. Flowering- 

 eyes l-'-h lin. above the spine-pairs. Cymes sessile or subsessile, solitary, 

 with 3 or fewer involucres. Central involucre male, sessile, deciduous, 

 lateral on peduncles (cyme-branches) \-\ lin. long, hermaphrodite, 

 1 J-1 j lin. in diam., somewhat obconic, glabrous, with 5-G subquadrate- 

 or transversely rectangular toothed lobes ; glands contiguous or only 

 separated by cut-like notches or united into a continuous rim, when 

 separate §-1 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, entire, 

 yellow. Capsule about 1 lin. in diam., 3-angled or somewhat 3-lobed 

 as seen from above, glabrous, exserted much beyond the involucre on a 

 slender curved pedicel \ in. long ; styles §-1 lin. long, shortly united at 

 the base, then spreading, slender, with thickened or subcnpitate tips. 

 Seeds smooth. — Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. l)?)'l, and xxxiv. S3 ; Volkens 

 in Notizbl. Konigl. V>ot. Cart. J^erlin, ii. 2()<i ; Berger, Sukk, EuphorK 

 ()0. E. Stiihlinannii, Schweinf. ex Volkens in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. 

 Cart. Berlin, ii. 2(5 7, not of Pax ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 70 (not of 

 xxiii. 53.">). E. imjm'viay Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. C4. E. iStapjii, 

 iierger, Sukk. Euphorb. 59. 



Nile Xiand. I'ganda: cultivated :it Entebbe, -B>'OJf», 227 ! ^lc\\]o, Stuhhuann, 

 1301 ! liritish East Africa: Gimba ^[ountain, iieav Voi, TJhlifj ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; by the Himo liivcr, 



2900 ft., VoJkeaa, 1751) ! near Moreboto Village, Ijhlui, 242 ! Usanibara; stepjie, cast 

 of Pare Mountains, 2200 ft., TJhlif], 811a! near Pangani, StvMmann, 70 1 and 

 without precise locality, Fischer, 182 ! 



Var. milis, X. E. Br. Stems ^-\ in. in diam. in the type, but having been pre- 

 served in alcohol arc mncb sbrmili, 4-angled, with Hattish sides ; angles not tootlied, 

 ■with tbo narrow linear si»ine-shields sometimes quite separate, sometimes united into 

 a continuous horny dark brown nnngin to the angles, s])ineless or occasionally bearing 

 a very minute pair of prickles below the leaf-scars. Involucre about 1 lin. in diam. 

 Capsule \^ lin. in diam., exserted on a recurved pedicel ^ in.lqng; styles ^ lin. long. 

 Otherwise as in the type. — E. mitis. Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 70. 



Mozamb. Slstr. — German East Africa: at the foot of the Pare Mountains, 

 between Madji-ya-juu and Sengina, 2200 ft., Enfjler, 1613 ! 



