950 cxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. [^Euphorbia 



hedges around the quintas and arimos, since it grows rapidly and has 

 numerous virgate intricate and almost leafless branches. Lichen n. 321 

 in Sobato Quilombo grew on the bark of a Eiqihorhia, perhaps this 

 species. 



20. E. acalyphoi'des Hochst. in PI. Kotschv Nubic. n. 88 {U.i., 

 1841); Boiss. Icon. Euphorb. p. 17. t. 49 (1866), and in DC, I.e., 

 p. 98. 



Tithymalus acali/phoides Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^tbiop. p. 38 

 (1867). 



LoANDA. — In stony herbaceous places at Porta da Isabella near 

 Loanda ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853 and April 1854. In hot sandy places in 

 short grass and by thickets near Penedo, plentiful ; fl. and fr. beginning 

 of Dec. 1857. No. 296- 



21. E. sarmentosa Wehv. ex Pax in Engl. Bot. Jalirb. xix. p. 

 121 (1894). 



LoAXDA. — Perennial, suff'ruticose, woody at the base ; stem smooth, 

 becoming reddish, sub-erect, dichotomous. much-branched. 6 to 8 in. 

 in diameter at the base, branches spreading, elongate-virgate, tortuously 

 sarmentosa, adpressedly hirsute ; branchlets patent-recurved ; leaves 

 lanceolate-linear or linear, shortly petiolate, soft, somewhat fleshy, 

 glaucescent ; flowers secund on the branchlets, solitary in the axils of 

 the leaves, shortly pedunculate ; involucre 4-clef t ; the segments reddish 

 brown, truncate, subcrenulate : germen ellipsoidal, as well as the 

 capsule adpressedly hirsute. In dry bushy hilly places on sandy clay 

 around Quicuxe rather rare, very rare near Loanda, one specimen at 

 Barrancos de Penedo ; fl. and fr. middle of July 1858. In hilly rather 

 elevated places between Quicuxe and MutoUo, April 1854, among tall 

 grasses, near Mutollo, end of May 1854. No. 297. Stems and leaves 

 fleshy, full of milk : stems at first erect, at length ending in tortuous sub- 

 scandent almost leafless branchlets ; leaves linear. In mountain thickets 

 at Mutollo ; fr. April 1854. Coi.i.. Cahi'. 913. An undershrub with 

 a peculiar habit for the genus ; branches elongated, sarmentose, sub- 

 scandent. On bushy hills near Loanda, rather rare ; fr. July 1858. 

 Cojx. Cari*. 915. 



It has much the aspect of E. systyla Edgew. 



22. E. Tukeyana Steud. Nomencl. Bot., edit. 2, i. p. 615 (1840). 

 E. arhorescens Chr. Sm. in Tuckey, Congo, p. 251 (1818), iion 



alior. E. Tuckeyana Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 177 (1849); 

 J. A. Schmidt, Fl. Cap Verd. Ins. p. 304 (1852); Boiss. in DC, 

 I.e., p. 109 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 249 (1884). 



Cape de Verde Islands. — A stout shrub. 4 to 7 ft. high. In the 

 more elevated bushy mountainous parts of Monte Yerde in the island 

 of St. Vincent, plentiful and growing in masses ; fl. and fr. Aug. 1853. 

 Called by the inhabitants " Tira olhos." No. 646. 



According to Ficalho, I.e., the shrub is also called " Tosta olho," — 

 that is, goggle-eye, probably in consequence of the inflammation of the 

 eyes which the acrid sap produces. The bark affords one of the best 

 preparations for tanning hides. 



23. E. claytonioides Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 533 (1897). 

 MossAMEDES. — An ascending glaucous somewhat fleshy herb, very 



milky throughout, annual or lasting for several years ; stem patently 

 branched a little above the base : umbellules dichotomously multifid. 



