Euphorbia.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 249 
ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. CEYLON, Walker, Thwaites, 
—DıstRIB. Malay Archipelago, China, Australia, Pacific Islands. 
A dwarf seaside shrub (sometimes climbing?); root stout, long; stems rigid, 
polished, erect inclined or prostrate, branching upwards, rarely as thick as a goose- 
quill. Leaves subsessile, 1-14 in., coriaceous, longer or shorter than the internodes ; 
stipules minute, fimbriate. Znvolucres turbinate, glabrous; lobes triangular; glands 
With a very minute limb or margin, Styles short, 2-fid. Capsule glabrous; cocci 
hardly keeled. Seeds nearly globose. 
ll. E. linearifolia, Roth Nov. Sp. 224; quite glabrous, glaucous, 
stems decumbent, leaves Í in. opposite and secund subimbricate very coria- 
ceous obliquely linear obtuse or acute quite entire lower in distant pairs 
ovate, involucres few subcorymbose towards the tips of the branches or 
solitary and axillary, lobes triangular-ovate hairy, limb of glands large 
obovate white, styles short, capsule glabrous. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
93. E. linearis, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 7712. 
Deccan PrxiNsULA, Heyne. 
A very remarkable species, quite unlike any other, of which I have seen only 
fragments in Wallich's Herbarium, and can add little to the descriptions of Roth and 
Oissier, The branches appear to be stout, curved, and swollen at the nodes as in 
E, Atoto; the leaves are almost fleshy, with a stout midrib; their arrangement 
resembles that of the leaflets of a pinnate leaf. 
12. E. hypericifolia, Linn. Hort.Cliff.198; annual,glabrous or sparsely 
pubescent, erect ascending or decumbent, leaves opposite obliquely broadly 
9r narrowly oblong obtuse serrulate, nerves distinct, base rounded or cor- 
ate, involucres minute in axillary and terminal usually peduncled and 
many-fld. cymes with many subulate bracts often subtended by 2 flora 
leaves rarely solitary entire glabrous, lobes lanceolate ciliate, limb smaller 
or larger than the gland usually rounded and white, styles very short, cocci 
hardly keeled glabrous or hispid, seeds smooth or with broad shallow trans- 
verse pits. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 23 ; Hook. Exot. FI. i t. 36 ; Thwaites 
Enum, 268; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 301. E. indica, Lamk. Dict. ii. 423; Boiss. 
I. c. and FI. Orient. iv. 1086; Wail. Cat. 7711, excl.C. E. cassioides, Pres] 
Bot. Bemerk. 119. E. decumbens, Willd. Suppl. 27. E. audrossmoides, 
Dennst, Schlüss. Hort, Mal. 36. E. parviflora, Linn. Syst. Ed. x. 1047 ; Roxb. 
FI. Ind. ii. 472; Boiss. in DC. le. 22; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 179; Dalz. § 
Gibs. Bomb. FI. 997, E. papilligera, Boiss. Cent. Euph. 8. ? E. bracteolaris, 
nss. in DC. 1. e. 99.— Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 224, t. 105, f. 2.—Euphorb., 
Wall. Cat. 7686.—Jeheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 51. a 
Common throughout the hotter parts of Inpra, from the Panjab, ascending to 
nod ft. in the Himalaya, to the Southern Deccan, Malacca and CEYLON. —DIsTRIB. 
Tropics of both hemispheres, except Australia and the Pacific [slands. . 
t rather slender, rarely stout, annual, 6-12 in. high, of various habit, .Leares, 
2D. rarely more or less, not coriaceous, more or less serrulate on all the margins 
except towards the base ; stipules minute, setaceous, lacerate, or 0. Znvolucres very 
minute, turbinate, glabrous, with quite entire minute bracts at the base of the 
pedicel; glands very shortly stipitate, lobes usually projecting above the glands ; 
imb of the latter white or pale pink, always small, but very variable in size, some- 
times 0. Capsule subglobose ; cocci more or less pubescent or glabrous. Seeds with 
a thin mucous coat, blnish when dry, very variable as to the amount and depth of 
the Shallow depressions on the faces which are often obsolete.— After a very careful 
examination of numerous specimens, I cannot separate E. indica from E. hyperici- 
248, as indeed was the opinion of Bentham, Engelmann and Thwaites. The latter 
Author quite correctly identifies with it Burmann’s t. 105 f. 2, which is the authority 
tor Linnens’ E. parviflora, and of which Roxburgh's excellent figure differs in no 
respect from hypericifolia and indica, Wallich’s No. 7686, from Nepal, is a very 
