216 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEXK. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Euphorbia. 
Secr. III. Trruymanus. Herbs, rarely shrubby below, usually erect, 
branches terete, not fleshy. eaves alternate, upper (rarely all) opposite, 
exstipulate. Involucres in terminal or axillary cymose umbels radiating 
in threes; glands without a petaloid limb. 
7. GALARHA£US. Involucra! glands transversely oblong with rounded margins.— 
Sp.—32-48. 
8. Esuta. Involucral glands truncate retuse or 2-cornute.— Sp. 49-54. 
1. ELEGANTES (see p. 245). 
* Floral leaves distichous, secund, imbricating and concealing the 
involucres. 
1. E. pyenostegia, Boiss. Cent. Euph. 9, and in DC. Prodr. xv. v. 
18; annual, erect, glabrous, leaves opposite oblong obtuse or cuspidate sub- 
serrulate, floral distichously imbricating broadly ovate-cordate or orbicular, 
involueres subsolitary glabrous, lobes toothed, limb of glands large obliquely 
obovate entire, cocci obtusely keeled glabrous or puberulous, seeds wit 
sinuous furrows or flattened tubercles. 
WESTERN GHATS ; from the Conean to the Nilghiris, Perrottet, Law, &c. 
A rather slender dichotomously branched herb, 1-2 feet high. Leaves 1-1} m. 
long, thin, glabrous, except a few scattered long hairs at the axils and near them, 
nerves very obscure ; floral collected in an oblong head; stipules minute, rhe 
Involucres turbinate, hairy within. Styles short, 2-lobed. Seeds obtusely 4-angled, 
greenish, powdery, sometimes very obscurely furrowed.— Boissier's var. lusa, name 
by him Æ. oligantha in Hook. Herb, I think is certainly his Æ. erythroclada, under 
which I have described it, 
2. E. zornioides, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 19; annual, erect, 
glabrous, leaves opposite cordately linear-oblong obtuse or mucronate serm. 
late, floral distichously imbricating broadly ovate cordate, involucres sU». 
solitary glabrous, lobes fimbriate, limb of glands large entire rosy, Cocc 
obtusely angled glabrous, seeds smooth or papillose. 
The Concan, Law, Stocks, &c. . 
Habit and general character of E. pycnostegia, of which it is probably a variety 
. . yr We 
with narrower cauline and smaller floral leaves; the seeds are of the same form, po 
dery surface and colour, but without traces of sinuous furrows. 
3. E. elegans, Spreng. Syst. iii.794; annual, erect, clothed with long 
soft spreading hairs, leaves opposite broadly obliquely oblong elliptic o 
ovate-cordate obtuse serrulate towards the tips, floral broader distichousty 
imbrieating reticulate, involucres few hirsute, limb of glands large sinnate 
rosy, cocci globose pubescent, seeds grooved cross-wise and granulate. 
Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 19. E. variegata, Heyne in Roth Nov. SP: 
` 225. E platylepis, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 156, t. 157. E. strobilifera, 
Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. ii. (1851) 229; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
226. P E. dichotoma, Roxb. FL. Ind. ii. 471. 
Deccan PENINSULA, Heyne. MALWA, Edgeworth. WESTERN BrraR, a weed 
of cultivation. The Coxcan ; on naked rocks, Law, Stocks, &c. . irs 
Stem 1-2 ft., dichotomously branched. eaves crowded or in distant pai x 
3-1 in. long, subsessile; floral variable, often obovate, reticulate ; stipules m mb 
setaceous. nvolucres turbinate, pubescent without and within; lobes obovate ; the 
of glands very conspicuous. Styles elongate, 2-fid.—Boissier’s var. laxa, wit 
upper leaves not imbricate, is probably a form growing in shade. 
