256 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Huphorbia. 
tree, branches terete or obscurely 3-6-angled, branchlets with 3-5 thick 
sinuate wings and a pair of sharp stipular thorns in the sinuses, leaves few 
small from the sides of the wings fleshy obovate-oblong tip rounded, in- 
volueres 3-nate forming short-peduncled cymes in the sinuses, styles free 
2-lobed, cocci compressed glabrous. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 81; Road. 
Fl. Ind. ii. 468; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 179; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 226; 
Brand. For. Fl. 438; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 416; Beddome Forester’s Man. 
217; Wight Ic. t. 897. PE. arborescens, Roxb. l. c.—Rheede Hort. Mal. n. 
t. 42.—Euphorb., Wall. Cat. 7704 A, C. 
Throughout the hotter parts of INDIA and CEYLON, in dry places, ascending to 
2000 ft. ; also cultivated for hedges. . 
A polymorphous plant, Wight; attaining 25 ft., Kurz.; branches 5-6 in. broad, 
wings repand-sinuate. Leaves few, small, deciduous, almost nerveless, shortly 
petioled. Cymes rarely compound; bracts opposite, “obovate” (Kurz). Znvolucres 
hemispherical, nearly + in. broad, yellow, the lateral ones on the cyme shortly thickly 
pedicelled, the central sessile, female; bracteoles abundant, fimbriate. Fruit j m. 
diam.—Wight refers the plant he figures of this species to a var. polygona, and repre- 
sents the bracts as triangular ovate and acute, and the cymes as lax with long pedun- 
cles and pedicels. 
26. E. tortilis, Rottler, ex Wight Ic. t. 898 ; an erect fleshy glabrous 
shrub, branches broad jointed 3-4-angled and spirally twisted, angles com- 
pressed lobulate with a pair of stout stipular spines on the lobes, leaves ?, 
involucres 3-nate very shortly stoutly peduncled forming small clusters 1n 
the sinuses campanulate lobes glabrous, styles very short connate at the 
base, cocci not compressed. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 81; Brand. For 
Fl. 439.—Euphorb. Wall. Cat. 7704 B. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; Madras and the Coromandel coast. CryLon, Thwaites. 
A shrub; branches 2-3 in. broad; spines } in. long. Leaves not described. 
Cymes of 3 subsessile green involucres each about l in. diam.; bracts minute ovate, 
acute. Involucre green with fimbriate lobes and large glands; bracteoles very abundant, 
fimbriate. Styles subspathulate, emarginate. Fruit } in. diam. ; cocci keeled.— 
Wight’s figure of this differs from that of E. antiquorum in the short crowded cymes, 
glabrous involucral lobes, rounded cocci, and stouter 2-lobed styles. As with all 
the other species of this section, careful comparison of these characters 18 much 
wanted. Thwaites suggests its being a var. of E. antiquorum. 
27. E. trigona, Haworth Succ. Pl. 127; an erect glabrous fleshy 
shrub, branches 3-5-winged, sinus between the wings acute, wings lobulate 
with one or two pairs of stout stipular spines on the lobes, leaves from the 
sides of the wings petioled obovate-spathulate fleshy, tips rounded or 
mucronate, cymes solitary in the sinuses very shortly peduncled, involucres 
3 hemispheric, lobes cuneiform fimbriate, styles connate below undivided, p 
compressed glabrous. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xy. ii. 82; Brand. For. Ft. i ’ 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 468; Wight Ic.t. 1863. E. antiquorum, var. B, Linn. P. 
Pl. 646. E. Cattimandoo, W. Elliot in Wight Ic. t. 1993; Boiss. l ¢. 85; 
Brandis, l.c. 
Dry rocky hills in the DECCAN, aud probably other parts of India. ANDAMAN 
Istanps, Kurz.—Distrip. Moluccas. Mo- 
The following description is from Roxburgh of specimens brought from the in 
luccas :—Stem 6-7 ft., branches ascending, usually 3-gonous. Leaves 1-2 by 374! 7 
solitary from between the spines, deep green above, paler beneath. Cymes Sroa 
the sinuses generally of 3 involucres, the central sessile with 5 fascicles of pr 1 
only ; lateral pedicelled with one female and five male fi. Znvolucral lobes rout"? 
jagged ; scales (bracteoles) numerous, multifid. Styles combined to the middle. ald 
Wight remarks of his E. Cattimandco, that it is so like E. trigona that he wo 
