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CXXXV. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Euphorbia. 
9. CHAMÆSYCEÆ (see p. 245). 
17. E. thymifolia, Burm. Fl. Ind. 2, and Thes. Zeylan. t. 105, f. 2;. 
annual, more or less hispidly pubescent, branches prostrate, leaves opposite 
i-i in. petioled obliquely oblong obtuse crenulate glabrous or pubescent 
beneath, stipules elongate, involueres subsolitary very minute axillary 
especially in the erowded terminal branchlets, lobes short ciliate, glands 
very minute stipitate with a minute limb or 0, capsules erect obtusely keeled 
pubescent, seeds with 5-6 shallow transverse furrows. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. 
xv. ii. 47, and Fl. Orient. iv. 1089; Lamk. Dict. ii. 423; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 
473; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 227; Benth. Fl. Hongk, 302; Wall. Cat. 
7710, in part. E. Burmanniana, J. Gay in Webb. Phyt. Canar. ii. 239; 
Thwaites Enum. 269. E. prostrata, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 179 (not of Aiton). 
E. rubicunda, Blume Cat. Hort. Bogor. 73. E. foliata, Hamilt. ex Dillw. 
Rev. Hort. Malab. 59. E. maculata, Aubl. Pl. Guian. i. 479. ? E. pro- 
strata, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 179. Anisophyllum thymifolium & Burman- 
nianum, Klotzsch & Garcke in Bot. Reise Pr. Wald. 25.— Eheede Hort. Mal. 
x. t. 33. 
Throughout INDIA and CEYLON in the plains and lower hills, ascending in Kashmir 
to 5500 ft.— DISTRIB. All hot countries except Australia, . 
Usually a much-branched prostrate plant, with many short leafy stems spreading 
from the root. Leaves distichously spreading, rather thick, base obliquely truncate ; 
stipules fimbriate with a long point. Involucres jy in. long, turbinate, pubescent ; 
glands stipitate, limb obscurely lobed. Capsule 2; in. broad, shortly stipitate, erect 
from an early stage. 
18. E. granulata, Forsk. Fl. Æg. Arab. 94; perennial ?, hispidly 
villous, stems many prostrate from the root leafy, leaves opposite qo7s 1D- 
obliquely obovate oblong-obovate or rounded quite entire tip rounded or 
retuse, involucres axillary subsolitary hairy, limb of gland 0 or minute, styles 
minute, cocci hirsute not keeled, seeds faintly pitted. Vahl Symb. x. 54; 
Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 33, and Fl. Orient. iv. 1087. E. Forskalii, var. 
B and y, J. Gay in Webb. Phyt. Canar., iii. 242. E. fragilis, Dene. n Ann. 
Se. Nat. Ser. 2 (1834), 241. E. arillata, Edgew. in Journ. As. Soe. Beng 
xvi. 1218; T. Anders. Flor. Aden. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 34. E. villosa, Herb. 
Royle. ? E. wgyptiaca, var. indica, Boiss. in DC. 1. c. 35. E. thymifolia, 
Wall. Cat.7710 E. Anisophyllum Forskalii, Klotzsch & Garcke n Bot. 
Reise Pr. Wald. Bot. 25, 
The Pansab PrarNs and RONILKUND, Royle, &e. Marwa, Edgeworth. SCIND, 
Stocks, Perry.— Distrib. Affghanistan, Arabia, Egypt, Canaries. . 
Noot in old plants crowned by a short rootstock ; branches spreading and straggling 
from the root, 3-6 in., very brittle. Leaves spreading distichously, villous on im 
surfaces, the largest 1 in. long, opaque, coriaceous, base narrow or cordate; stipu es 
minute, ciliolate. Znvolueres very minute, axillary and on short leafy branchlets 
subsessile, turbinate ; lobes short, obtuse, ciliate; glands usually without a lim . 
Capsule jJ, in. diam., cocci rounded at the back. Seed with a thickly mucous tes i 
— The Scind specimens are less hirsute than the Panjab ones. Boissier describes t 's 
as annual, but I think it is certainly a perennial. 1 find no specimen of Boissier H 
E. ægyptiaca var. indica in Herb. Kew, where its author states there is a specime 
from Bombay, but I suspect that the plant alluded to is Æ. granulata. 
19. E. microphylla, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 229; annual, quite 
glabrous or sparsely hairy, stems very many prostrate and spreading nm l 
the root leafy, leaves opposite 1-1 in. very short obliquely oblong roun ed 
oblong or subquadrate tip rounded truncate or retuse and more OT /® 
