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Re: sp. Lav. 24534 & Euphorbia Journal

Hi Kirk  and John,

I have taken a couple of days to answer your questions since I had to check 
both my plants and my records.

    Lav. 24534 is probably (read probably) S. robusta. Yes, it grows in all 
directions (all S. robustas do when young) but I have a pup growing in a 
spiro-distichous manner. This could be a preview of it growing distichous 
later. It is NOT blue. we have to wait.
    It is definitely NOT S. powellii, which later was never brought back from 
Somalia. Lavranos send me in 1985 most all the plants of that trip. One of 
them read "S. aff. powellii". There is where the confusion comes. The plant 
is only a S- arborescens with shorter and much thicker leaves.

John,
I checked my records and, of the ROUND leaved plants only two were collected 
near Eyl, one is S. eilensis (Lav. 23374) and the other Lav. 23395, quite 
close to S. robusta, but this was in 1985, not 1986. Yet, if we are going to 
be thorough about it John, then, the fact that they did not bring any other 
round leaved plant does NTO mean that they did not take a picture of another 
plant! 

Two plants were collected in 1986 that could be it, if any of the localities 
below are close to Eyl:
24898A   F/C 49 km S of Dan Goreyo on rd. to Eyl,8°33'N,49°19"E.
24977   F/C 10 Km S of Los Anod on Bohotle rd.Rocky slopes and gypsum hills 
with denuded sparse commiphora scrub. 2400'.
I have the latter and it is a very fat and bluish plant. Small, at this 
stage, possibly S. ehrenbergii or a new species. Definitely not S. rorida.
So, I suspect that it could be the former
If anybody has the first plant, please let me know. thanks

Juan
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