Euphorbia.] ^ cxxxv. EurHonBrAcEx. (J. D. Hooker.) 251 
t. 478. E. hirta, Linz. l c.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 472; Jacq. Collect. v. t. 11, 
L1; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl.179; Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 227; Benth. FL. 
Austral. vi. 51, and Fl. Hongk. 302. E. capitata, Wall. Cat. 7708, B to 
‘FE.— Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 104 and 105, f. 1.— Wall. Cat. 7707 B. 
Throughout the hotter parts of INDIA from the Panjab eastwards and southwards 
to CEYLON and SINGAPORE.— DISTRIB. All tropical and subtropical countries. 
Stem and branches 1-2 ft. Leaves very shortly petioled, 2-14 in. long, base 
usualy narrow and obliquely cordate; stipules minute, linear; petiole distinct, 
Involucres about 35 in. ; glands small, globose, without a perceptible limb. Capsule 
34, in, diam., appressedly or patently hairy. Seeds ovoid.—The acute leaves, hispid 
hairiness, and small fruit render this species easily recognizable. 
15. E. rosea, Retz. Obs. iv. 26; perennial, glabrous or sparsely hairy, 
stems prostrate flexuous, leaves opposite coriaceous obliquely obovate or 
linear-spathulate tip rounded crenulate, involucres solitary or few in small 
leafy axillary and terminal sessile cymes towards the ends of the branches, 
lobes 9—5-fid, limb of 2 upper glands large obliquely oblong or rounded, of 
lower very narrow, styles very slender, cocci obtusely keeled, seed 
rugose. Boiss. Euphorb. Ic. t. 21, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 50; Thwaites 
Enum. 269. E. thymifolia, Wull. Cat. 7710 D. E. indica, Wall. Cat. 7711 C. 
- parviflora & satureioides, Lamk. Dict. ii. 424. PE. auricularia, Boiss. 
Cent. Euphorb. 17, and in DC. l. c. 50. 
Deccan PENINSULA, from the Carnatic to Tranquebar, on the coast, Rottler, &c. 
EYLON; common near the sea.— DISTRIB. Affghanistan. 
Root long and stout ; stems brittle, 4-8 in. long; branches straggling, firm, loosely 
leafy, Leaves i-8 in. long, lower distant, upper more crowded often subsquarrose, 
rarely truncate ; stipules minute, triangular, fimbriate. —Znvolucre j;-1 in. diam., 
Subeaipanulate; lobes triangular ovate, acute; glands suborbicular, often deep 
Purple, limb rosy very conspicuous; styles deeply bifid. Cocei very minutely 
rough.— Boissier’s figure of this is very unsatisfactory as regards habit. I can find 
no character whereby to distinguish his E. auricularia, which be says differs from Æ. 
rosea in being glabrous, with the floral leaves not imbricate, nor narrowed, in the 
smooth capsule and involucre, and in the styles spathulate at the tip. It is described 
rom a specimen of Heyne’s in the St. Petersburg Herbarium. 
16. x. corrigioloides, Boiss. Cent. Euphorb. 1, and in DC. Prodr. 
XV. ii, 32; perennial, glabrous or papillosely pubescent, stems stout prostrate 
and ascending leafy, leaves opposite 4 to % in. coriaceous orbicular to 
bg liquely oblong serrulate tip rounded, involucres turbinate crowded in 
Small subsessile axillary and terminal often capitate cymes or leafy heads, 
limb of gland (when present) white lobed, styles usually slender, cocci 
obtusely keeled, seed smooth. ? E. disticha, Engelm. in Herb. Vind. ex 
Boiss, in DC. l c. 
Deccan PENINSULA, Heyne; Maisor and the Carnatic, Wight, &c. . 
oot stout, crowned with a short stock; branches long and flexuous, 4-10 in., 
pale, Usually much stouter than in other species of this section. Leaves distichously 
"Preading, thickly coriaceous, base rounded or obliquely cordate ; petiole short, thick ; 
Stipules short, triangular, lacerate. Cymes leafy at the base. — Znvolucres turbinate, 
hi in. diam., shortly pedicelled ; lobes broad and cleft to the base into many bristles ; 
inb when present often broader than the gland and very conspicuous. S/y/es more 
slender than in others of the section, but this character seems variable. Capsule 
n in. diatn.— Except by its stout habit, perennial root and longer styles, it is not 
md distinguish some states of this from some of E. hypericifolia. Between E. 
Of ua and corrzgioloides, as distinguished by Boissier, I can find no goot pim 
Bar € former he says, “ Very closely allied to Æ. corrigioloides, but appearing to differ 
spe; c. VETY Short internodes, short styles, &c.,” characters which I find applicable to 
Pecimens of the latter. 
