982 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). [IVagia, 



silky-puberulous and rather densely bristly, J in. across ; cocci sub- 

 globose. Seeds globo.se, greenish-grey, mottled with red. — 7\ mitts, var. 

 arabica, Miill. Arg. in DC Prodr, xv. ii. 942. 2\ jntnyens, \b.v. arabica, 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Eoiss. vii. App. ii. 310. 



srile Itand. Abyssinia: Galla; Be\nim,Ene7iheck,322\ Somaliliind : without 

 precise lociility, Mrs. Lorf-Phillips ! 

 Also in Arabia. 



\2iY. parvifolia, Piain. Leaves, twigs, jieduncles, bracts and male sepals densely 

 f^rey-pubescent. Female calyx-scffments densely clothed with chestnut-brown 

 bristles. Capsule densely hisi)id. Stems always erect, woody, much-branched, 1 ft. 

 liigh. Jjeaves ^ in. long; petioles densely tomcntose ; otherwise as in the type.— 

 T. parvifolia. Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 102. 



xrile Xiand. Abyssinia: Harar, Ruspoli-Riva, 304! Somaliland : Ah! 

 Mountains, 6500 ft., Hildebrandt, 89ll ! 



Very nearly allied to T.cordifolia, Valil, but with sn)aller leaves and somewhat 

 different habit, and to T. moaynntarensis, liaill., with which var. parvifolia agrees 

 in habit and in the chestimt-l)rown colour of the bristles on the fruiting calyx, but 

 with rather differently shaped leaves. Except as i egards the colour of these bristles 

 the two varieties, whicli agree as regards foliage, bear to eacli other exactly the 

 relationship which T. cordifolia and its var. cinerea bear to each other. 



18. T. mitis, Ilochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 244. Stems 

 long, slender, twining, finely puberulous, without stinging hairs. Leaves 

 distinctly to long petioled, membranous, triangular-ovate, acute or 

 shortly acuminate, base shallowly to rather deeply usually widely some- 

 times narrowly cordate, margin distinctly and sharply serrate, 2^-4 J in. 

 long, li-3 in. wide, shortly and .softly puberulous on the nerves on both 

 surfaces and without stinging bristles ; petiole \--\ in. long, softly 

 puberulous ; stipules lanceolate, erect, softly puberulous, 2 lin. long. 

 Racemes terminal on stems and branches, 1-sexual, dia'cious, slender; 

 males rather dense at first, soon becoming lax, 2-() in. long, with a 

 slender naked puberulous peduncle J-lJ in. long, often accompanied by 

 a smaller basal raceme and occasionally paniculately branched upwards ; 

 pedicels above in o-Howered glomerules, from the middle downwards in 

 lax o-tlowered cymules ; pedicels slender, puberulous, longer than their 

 bracts and much longer than their bracteoles ; bracts and bracteoles 

 membranous, subulate, refiexed, puberulous, 1 lin. long ; females lax, 

 IJ-o in. long, with peduncles as in the males but more rigid, the flowers 

 few, up to 12, solitary to their bracts and sessile; bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, puberulous, lJ-2 lin. long, the uppermost 4-6 often empty; 

 bracteoles similar but smaller. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, puberulous 

 externally. Stamens 3 ; filaments as long as the anthers. Female 

 calyx-segments G, ovate, membranous, accrescent with an at length 

 roriaceous only slightly rigid rhachis 5 lin. long, pinnately H-lobulate 

 on each side ; lateral lobules and rhachis externally silky-pubescent but 

 without stinging bristles ; terminal laminula ovate-lanceolate, mem- 

 branous, lateral lobules lanceolate, spreading, about 1 lin. long, per- 

 sistent. Ovary silky-pubescent ; styles 3, glabrous, united in their 

 lower half. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly hirsute, without bristles, \ in. 



