264 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker)  [Zuphorbia. 
Wawra Bot. It. Pr. S. Cob. 44. E. glauca, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 473. PE. 
segetalis, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 179 (not of Willd.). E. oreophila, Miquel 
Analect. Bot. iii. 17; Boissl.c. E. Wightiana, Boiss. Cent. Euphorb. 37. 
E. graminea, Kenig in Herb. Vind. E. divergens, Klotzsch in Heise Pr. 
Wald. Bot. t. l8. E. leta, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 230. E. lanceolaria, 
Herb. Heyne, and E. linifolia, Herb. Russell, in Wall. Cat. 7691. Tithymalus 
divergens, Klotzsch l.e. 114. 
Hills of CENTRAL INDIA and the Decoan PENINSULA, from Banda, Edgeworth, 
southwards, alt. 4-6000 ft. CEYLON; common up to 7000 ft., Thwaites. 
Stems usually stout, sometimes profusely dichotomously branched above, the 
branches bearing pairs of involucral leaves. Leaves 2-5 by i-$ in., coriaceous or 
membranous, sometimes acuminate, nerves diverging, very obscure, floral and invo- 
lucral shorter, very variable. Rays few or many. Involucres 4^, in. diam., glabrous 
or hairy without, villous within; lobes variable, short ; bracteoles very few. Fila- 
ments hairy., Capsule 3-1 in. diam., glabrous or hairy, quite smooth ; pedicels long 
or short, deeply lobed. Seeds subglobose pale and imperfect, or broadly oblong or 
obovoid, brown-black or bluish, quite smooth; caruncle very small.—Boissier dis- 
tinguishes E. oreophila from Rothiana by being taller, with leaves narrower at the 
base, umbels with more rays, involucral lobes truncate, and glabrous capsules, none 
of which characters appear to me to hold good, the organs to which they refer being 
extremely variable. The infertile seeds which occur in most of the specimens are 
larger than the fertile, and more globose, with no perceptible caruncle. ‘This species 
is described as annual, and so are many specimens, but others appear as if from a 
perennial stock. Klotzsch’s Æ. divergens is stated to be a native of the Himalaya, 
where E. Rothiana has not been found by others. I follow Boissier in referring it 
to the latter species. 
Var. B, pubescens, Boiss. 1. c. ; branchlets and leaves more or less pubescent.— 
Canara, near Mercara, Hohenacker, Pl. Ind. Or. No. 807. 
** Perennials (see also 49. E. Rothiana). 
50. E. kanaorica, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 154; perennial, quite 
glabrous, stems very many from the rootstock decumbent much branched 
naked below, leaves 4-3 in. alternate coriaceous obovate-spathulate, floral 
opposite similar, involucres in the axils. of 2 opposite orbicular leaves shortly 
pedicelled campanulate glabrous within, lobes triangular small, glands large 
2-cornute, styles quite free 2-fid at the very tips only, capsule smooth, seeds 
oblong smooth. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kunawar on the ascent to the Runang Pass, alt. 15,000 ft. ? 
Thomson. 
Rootstock slender? Stems 6-10 in., flaccid, flexuous. Leaves yellowish when 
dry, always narrowed at the base except the upper involucral; costa and nerves ine 
visible. Znvolucres 3; in. diam.. Capsules } in. diam., pale. Seeds exactly as 10 
E. Maddeni.—This a good deal resembles a very small E. Maddeni, but it has certainly 
a perennial stock, the leaves are coriaceous or fleshy, the styles short quite free an 
hardly 2-fid. 
5l. E. prolifera, Ham. in Don Prodr. 62; quite glabrous, stems 
many from a stout rootstock, erect subsimple, leaves 1-3 in. very coriaceous 
narrow linear to linear-oblong or -spathulate obtuse or acute, floral 4 elliptic 
obtuse, involucral 2-4 rounded, involucres shortly campanulate lobes tri- 
angular fimbriate glands peltate very variable, styles short stout revo" 
deeply 2-fid, capsule broad smooth, seeds globose smooth. E. nepalepsrm 
Boiss. in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 157. E. cuneifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 4715 Walt 
Cat. 7701.—Euphorb., Wall. Cat. 7698, 7699. 
CENTRAL and WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Nepal to Kashmir, ascending t° 
