Euphorbia.] oxxxv. EupHoRBIAcER. (J. D. Hooker.) 263 
stems erect.many from the root leafy, leaves sessile linear-lanceolate sub- 
acute base acute rarely rounded or subcordate, involucral 2 broader at the 
base, involucres turbinate, lobes ovate ciliate, glands semilunate, styles short 
ee, capsule smooth, seeds oblong leprous. Boiss. in DC. Prodr.-xv. ii. 139, 
and Ic. Euphorb.t. 91; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. A74. E. lanceolata, Heyne. in 
Roth Nov. Sp. 930; Spreng. Syst. ii. 791. E. uniflora, Wall. Cat. 7700, 
and Herb. Royle (not of FT. Ind.). 
From the PANJAB to BEHAR in the plains and low hills, and southward to CANARA 
and CoRovAxDEL.—DisTRIB. Westwards to Arabia and Trop. Africa. ! 
Stems 12-18 in. high, often excessively branched dichotomously, branches divari- 
cate. Leaves 1-13 in. long; involucral shorter. Znvolucres solitary, hairy within. 
Capsule i-) in. diam., hardly depressed. Seeds oblong, with a white tuberculate 
testa.— Roth describes the margins of the leaves as scabrous. 
47. E. Maddeni, Boiss. i» DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 141; annual, quite gla- 
brous, branched from the base, leaves 3-1 in. alternate sessile obovate- 
spathulate tip rounded base acute, floral longer opposite, involucral ovate 
oblong obtuse, involucres subsessile turbinate, lobes triangular 2-fid, glands 
semilunate 2-cornute, styles nearly free 2-fid, capsule smooth, seeds oblong 
obscurely ribbed smooth.—Euphorb. No. 15, Herb. Strachey § Winter- 
m. 
otto 
WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Murree, alt. 5-9000 ft., Madden, &c. 
Whole plant 4-10 in. high, very variable in amount of branching, pale green, 
branches sometimes dichotomously divaricate. Zeaves membranous, always narrowed 
at the base, sometimes retuse at the apex, nerves very slender. Znvolucres solitary 
in the forks of the flowering branches, or the axils of their opposite leaves, sometimes in 
Tayed umbels ; vo in. diam., glabrous. Capsule thin, longer than broad, sulci deep 
etween the oblong cocci, pale, } in. diam. ; pedicel very short. Seeds j in. long, 
oblong, top rounded, caruncle orbicular. 
48. E. falcata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 450 ; annual, dwarf, glabrous, stems 
erect dichotomously divaricatingly branched, leaves sessile oblong-obovate 
or linear cuspidately acuminate, floral 2-4 and involucral broader oblong or 
the mvolucral cordate cuspidately caudately acuminate, involucres minute 
Urbinate lobes fimbriate glands semilunate, styles free, capsule small ovoid, 
cocci keeled, seeds transversely furrowed. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
40, and F7, Orient. iv. 1111; Jacq. FT. Austr. ii. t. 121; HeicAb. Ie. FI. 
erm. v. t. 14]. 
The PANJAB, at Rawul Pindee, Aitchison, GILGIT, Giles.—DIsTRIB. Affghanistan 
and westward to Arabia, Mid. and South Europe and N. Africa. . 
À small annual, 6-12 in, high, with pale rigid stems and branches. Leaves lin. 
and less, floral and involucral sometimes serrulate." Znvolucres glabrous, hidden by 
the floral leaves, glands minute. Capsule 1; in. long, thin. Seeds pale, compressed 
and obscurely 3-sided, ecarunculate.—I have seen only a single Indian specimen 
from the Panjab in a young state, and another from Gilgit, but the characteristic 
"Uspidate leaves of the species are unmistakable. Dr, Aitchison’s note says that it 
1S common, 
49. E. Rothiana, Spreng. Syst. iii. 796; annual or perennial, erect, 
glabrous, glaucous, stem copiously branched above, leaves alternate linear- 
anceolate or oblanceolate base acute, floral sessile ovate or oblong-lanceolate 
acute, involucra] 2-3 triangular-ovate or ovate-cordate mucronate, involucres 
portly campanulate lobes toothed and mouth villous glands semilunate 2- 
yrned, styles free 2-fid, capsule smooth, seeds oblong bluish. Boiss. in 
- Prodr. xy, ii. 156; Wight Ie. t. 1864; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 226; 
