248 CXXXV. FUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Euphorbia. 
The Concan ? Hugel, Stocks. 
Stem 1-2 ft., terete, polished ; branches ascending. Leaves rather membranous 
very shortly petioled ; base not cordate, very unequal but hardly auricled on one side. 
—My specimens are very imperfect, and without fruit, from the immense collections 
of Stocks made by himself, Law, and others in the Concan, Canara, and Malabar, but 
without precise locality. They are labelled by Boissier E. n. sp., oliganthe affinis ? 
and are, I think, clearly his F. erythroclada, as is also his E. pycnostegia var. laxa. 
8. E. coccinea, Roth Nov. Gen. § Sp.228; more or less clothed with 
soft white villous hairs, stems slender purple, leaves in scattered opposite 
pairs obliquely broadly elliptic or obovate-oblong quite entire tip rounded 
base broadly auricled on one side, involucres 1 or few in the axils of the 
crowded small orbicular terminal leaves, lobes long ciliate, limb of 2 glands 
large pink, cocci compressed keeled woolly membranous. Botss. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 37. 
The Deccan PENINSULA; Ahmedanuggur, Hugel. The Concan, Stocks. 
Root woody, apparently perennial. Stems 4-8 in., rigid, slender, angularly flexuous, 
very brittle. Leaves subsessile, rather coriaceous, very oblique, sometimes retuse ; 
stipules linear-lanceolate, villous. Znvolucres in villous leafy subglobose heads, g in. 
diam., with very conspicuous crenate rosy-purple limbs to two of the glands, and very 
small ones to the other two glands. Styles slender but not long. Capsule 35 in. long.— 
Probably this should be placed next to Z. cristata. 
2. HyYPERICIFOLLE (see p. 245). 
9. E. Wightiana, Hook. f.; perennial, shrubby ?, branches spreading 
slender, leaves 2-4 in. opposite in distant pairs petioled linear oblong or 
obovate-oblong entire or serrulate, involucral linear or obovate, involucres 
solitary axillary or in very short axillary cymes minute puberulous, lobes 
minute ciliate, capsules oblong puberulous, seeds oblong bluish smooth 
with a furrow on one side.—Euphorb., Wall. Cat. 7692. 
Deccan PENINSULA; Madras, Wight in Herb. Wall., and Ic. in Herb. Kew. 
Branches woody, terete, as thick as a crow-quill. Leaves very variable, some 
2-23 by 4 in., quite linear and serrulate, others oblong 21 by 1-$ in. others 1j by 
3 in., rounded at the tip and narrowed at the base into a distinct slender petiole; 
involucral, some 1 in. and linear, others } in. and broadly obovate.  Znvolucre almost 
hemispherical, sessile; glands transversely oblong, unwinged; lobes very Sm?" 
Styles short, free, 2-fid, erect. Capsule very shortly pedicelled, } in. long, not deeply 
lobed, top rounded, pale, quite smooth. Seeds rather mottled.— My only materia s 
for this very curious species are bad specimens in Herb. Wallich, and a drawing 
marked * Madras R, W. 446." The latter represents all the leaves serrulate an 
all the upper linear and acute. It is evidently near Æ. Atoto. 
10, E. Atoto, Forst. Prodr. n.207; glabrous, stem stout swollen at the 
nodes erect ascending or decumbent, leaves opposite oblong or linear-oblong 
obtuse quite entire, base unequally rounded or cordate, involucres axillary 
or in leafy terminal eorymbose cymes, glands oblong margined, capsu'? 
glabrous, seeds smooth. “Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 12; Baill. Adans. 6; 
282; Benth. Fl. Austral. vi. 46. E. halophila, Miquel Anal. Bot. iii. 1 j 
Boiss. 1. e. 13. E. pallens. Dillw. Rev. Hort. Mal. 55. E. articulata, Dennst. 
Schlüss. Hort. Mal. 37. E.lævis, Poir. Suppl. ii. 612 ; Boiss. l. c. 13. Elev 
gata, Vahl Symb.ii. 54. E. laevigata ? Wall. Cat. 7705. E. bifida, Thwar : 
Enum. 269 (not of Hook. § Arn.).—Euphorb., Wall. Cat. 7697.— Rhet 
Hort. Mal. t. 58. 
. ini. 
Maranan Coast, from Canara southwards, Wight, &c. PERAK; Scortechi 
