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pedicellate | pedicels as long as the peduncle but more slender. Stamens 
numerous. Ovary stipitate, tomentose ; styles half-way up united, 
subentire at the apex. 
Flowers and fruits'. — Jan. 1863 (Oliver and Cl.), Jan. 1872 
(Thomson), Jan. 1880 (Balf.), April 1861 (Thomson), May 1850 
(Madden), Nov. 1888 (Schweinf.), Dec. 1847 (Hook.), Dec. (Defl.). 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley (Defl.) ; ravine above the European 
cemetery of Steamer-Point (Schweinf.) ; along the path leading to the 
Shum Shum Range (Busse) ; without locality (Edgew., Hook., Madden, 
Anders., Hildebrand t, Balfour, Birdw., Kuntze). 
Distribution : — Yemen, Eritrea, N. Somaliland. 
Note: — Schweinfurth (in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII (1899), Append. 
II, 317) calls his specimens which he collected in the ravine above the 
European cemetery of Steamer-Point in the year 1888 : Euphorbia 
cuneata Vahl. var. ft. Eerrotletii Jaub. et Spach. 
As a matter of fact, the plant described as Euphorbia Eerrottetii 
Jaub. et Spach (Illustr. PI. Or. vol. V, tab. 464) was found at Aden: 
s< Arabia Felici, prope oppidum Aden, legit cel. Perrottet, Martio anni 
1854 (Herb. Mus. Par.).- ” 
Sectio IE. — Eseudacalypha. 
8. Euphorbia systyla Edgew. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. XVI, 1218 ; 
Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 35 ; DC. Prodr. XV, 98. 
Description : — An undershrub, 2-3 feet high, erect, dichotomous, 
striate, subglaucous, more or less leafed. Branches angular, ascending. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, entire 
mucronate, puberulous, 1J inches long, 1 — 3 lines broad ; petiole 6 lines 
long. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile ; involucre tubular, persistent, 4- 
dentate ; teeth fimbriate, alternate, with 4 concave glands. Ovary 
pubescent ; stipe thickened, tomentose ; styles united up to the apex ; 
stigmas bifid. 
Capsule erect, subglobose, puberulous; cocci bisulcate, angular, angles 
rounded. Seeds conical, compressed, constricted; testa crustaceous, 
punctate, olivaceous. 
Flowers and fruits : — February 1851 (Thomson), March 1850 
(Madden), April 1861 (Thomson), June 1872 (Hildebr.), Dec. 1847 
(Hook.), Dec. 1889 (Defl.). 
Locality : — From the seashore up to 1,000 feet of the Shum Shum 
Range (Edgew., Hook., Thomson, Madden) ; plain of Maala (Schweinf., 
Defl.) ; Biggari Valley (Defl.) ; upper end of the great valley between 
