Euphorbia.] CXXXV. wUPHORBIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 255 
A tree, 12-15 ft. ; branches 2-3 in. diam. Leaves deciduous, very shortly petioled, 
glossy, base obtuse; lateral nerves obsolete. Cymes of involucres inserted at the 
scars of fallen leaves. Capsules deeply 3-lobed, of the size and shape of those of E. 
nereifolia, — Description from Kurz. The habitis that of the following section. I have 
seen only dried flowerless branches. 
5. DIACANTHIUM (see p. 245). 
28. E. neriifolia, Linn. Hort. Cliff. 196 in part; a small erect fleshy 
glabrous tree, branches jointed cylindric or obscurely 5-angled with short 
sharp stipular thorns arising from thick tubercles, leaves subterminal 
fleshy obovate oblong or subspathulately obovate acute, involucres in small 
stout dichotomous short-peduncled cymes from the sinuses, hemispheric 
smooth, styles connate high up undivided, cocci compressed glabrous. 
DC. Plant. Grasses ii. t. 46; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 79, and Fl. 
Orient. iy, 1090; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 178; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 
226; Brand. For. FI. 439; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 416; Beddome Forester's Man. 
216; Wall. Cat. 7689. E. ligularia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 465; Ham. in Trans. 
vn. Soc. xiv. 285.— Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 96.—Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. 
DECCAN PENINSULA ; common in rocky places; cultivated in BENGAL and else- 
waere in native villages. Cultivated and probably wild also in BURMA, Kurz. 
Cultivated only in Ceylon.—DirsrRis. Beluchistan, Malay Islands. . 
A shrub or small tree, 15-20 ft. Branches $ in. diam. and upwards, with the 
subconfluent tubercles in 5 irregular rows. Leaves deciduous, 6-12 in. long, terminal 
9n the branehes, waved, narrowed into a very short petiole; stipular thorns solitary or 
in pairs, 4-4 in. long. Jnvolucres yellowish, the lateral ones of the cymes shortly 
thickly pedicelled, central sessile; lobes large, erect, roundish, cordate, fimbriate ; 
glands transversely oblong; bracteoles most abundant, fimbriate. Stigmas capitate. 
Capsule about i in. broad, deeply 3-lobed.—Kurz describes the involucres that are 
In the forks of the cymes as sessile, aud usually entirely male. I follow Boissier in 
referring Roxburgh’s Æ. ligularia to E. nereifolia, and his nereifolia to Nivulia. 
24. E. Nivulia, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 286; an erect fleshy 
glabrous tree, branches subcylindric with pairs of sharp stipular spines 
arising from low tubercles, leaves alternate linear- or obovate-oblong fleshy 
glabrous tip rounded, involucres 3-nate forming small short-peduncled cymes 
rom above the leaf scars on the tubercles hemispheric smooth, styles connate 
o the middle undivided, cocci compressed glabrous. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. 
xv. ll. 79; Wight Te. t. 1862; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 225; Brand For. FT. 
439; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 417; Beddome Forester's Man. 216; Wawra, Bot. Mt. 
Pr. S, Cop, 45. E. nereifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii 467; E. varians, Haw. 
Suce. Pl. 130; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 179. ?E. antiquorum, Wall. Cat. 
/688.— Rheede Hort, Mal. ii. t. 43. 
Norrn.wrst ; ; rocky hills. GozERAT, the DECCAN PENIN- 
WE and Ser», Wight ke: Oona and Borwa, in dry forests, Kurz.—DISTRIB. 
agascar P . . 
di À large shrub or tree, 20-25 ft. ; branches whorled; tubercles arranged ina spiral 
nt, conical, truncate. Leaves 6-12 in., deciduous, nerveless, midrib stout beneath. 
nvo “res 3 together in a short cyme with a minute serrulate bract at their base, 
teral peduncled 2-sexual, central sessile, male; lobes large, erect, ovate, fimbriate ; 
glands transversely oblong ; bracteoles most abundant, fimbriate. Stigmas capitate. 
"psule about iin. broad. Seeds smootb. 
8. E. antiquorum, Linn. Hort. Cliff. 196; an erect fleshy glabrous 
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