584 cxxii. EUPHORBIA te/t: (nuowN). [EirpJiorhia. 



usually separate and more or less extending above and below the spines 

 into an acute point, but sometimes in places connected by a continuous 

 horny border. Flowering-eyes touching the spine-shields, 1-2 lin. 

 above the spines, producuig 1-3 or more cymes, crowded along the 

 margins. Cymes 5-6 lin. long, pedunculate, glabrous, bearing ;5 invo- 

 lucres, with the middle one sessile and the lateral on branches 1 l-l lin. 

 long; peduncle 1-1 J lin. long. J^racts about 1 lin. long and broad, 

 scale-like, broadly ovate, obtuse. Involucre 2 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, 

 glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 erect deltoid acute or toothed lobes ; 

 glands not contiguous, |-1 lin. in their greater diam., transversely 

 oblong, with a slightly raised margin all lound. Ovary with a calyx 

 at its base of ?> deltoid lobes cut into 2-1 Hliform segments, exserted on 

 a stout angular and somewhat furrowed pedicel 2-2A lin. long, and curved 

 to one side, glabrous; styles 1 lin. long, united at the basal tliiid, with 

 stout spreading arms, channelled on the upper side, shoitly 2-lobed at 

 the apex. Capsule not seen, but probably rather fleshy. 



Nile I.and« Uj^anda: Toro district, 2G0O-4OOO ft.; Hurulr, Daire, 6771 

 Wiini River, Bagshatve, \0\S)\ 



101. E. angularis, Klntzsch in Peters, Reise ^/os^tmh. Hot. !)2. 

 A succulent leatless spiny bush, about " 1 (> feet high, with thick stems 

 and radiatini,' ascending branches" {Kirk), glabrous. Branches deeply 

 constricted into joints :>-^.in. long and 2— 1.\ in. in diam., broadly 

 ;)-winged, with a rather small .volid central part; wings 1-2^ in. broad, 

 wavy and irregidaily lol)ed or sinuate, with continuous grey hoiny 

 margins. I>eaves rudimentary, scale-like, rigid, 1-U lin. long, sub- 

 quadrate, obtusely pointed or roui ded at the apex, strongly re- 

 curved, very concave lengthwise, central part deciduous, leaving 

 2 small rigid hooks partly recurved l)etween the bases of the spines. 

 Spines 2-5 lin. long, in pairs J- 1 in. a})art, diverging, grey. Flowering- 

 eyes ^—h in. above the spines. Cymes solitary or 2 together, with 

 stout peduncles ^-2 lin. long, bearing 3 involucres, with the lateral on 

 stout branches 1-2 lin. long, glabrous. Bracts suborbicular, concave, 

 about l^-- li^i- in diam., entire or slightly denticulate. Involucre 

 2|-v5j- lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 rect- 

 angular or subobovate erect denticulate lobes ; glands contiguous, 1 J-2 

 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic-ol)long, but with the 

 inner margin less curved than the outer and more or less upcurved, 

 detlexed at each end and in fruit becoming wavy along the outer margin. 

 Ovary sessile and together with the greater })art of the styles included 

 in the involucre, glabrous, with a shortly 3-lobed cupular calyx at its 

 base ; styles 2 lin. long, united for half their length, slightly spreading 

 above, entire, with thickened truncate rugose stigmas, slightly excavated 

 on the upper side. Capsule just exseited from the involucre, erect, 

 i) lin. high and (5-7 lin. in diam., very truncate at the apex and base, 

 very deeply 3-lobed as seen from above, the much compressed lobes 

 subquadrate in outline viewed sideways, not tieshy, with subwoody cell- 

 walls I lin. thick, glabrous, red, having a persistent somewhat fleshy 

 i<-lobed calyx at the base, its lobes about 1 lin. long, ovate, obtuse or 



