472 DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA, Euphorbia. 
minute glandular point on each side of the insertion of 
leaves. Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, or paired with 
the rudiments of one or two more pressing on opposite 
sides of the fleshy base of the common calyx, and covered 
by an angular bracte. Calyx common, its mouth divided 
into five equal semilunar coloured segments, Petals five, 
red, equal, with the apex incurved and deeply cut into 
filiform segments, Stamina in five fascicles of five each. 
Germ oval, Style scarcely any. Stigma trifid. 
11. E. acaulis. R. a8 
Root tuberous, perennial, stemless, unarmed. Leaves 
radical, fleshy, sessile, cuneiform, smooth, with curled 
margins, crenulate, and callous, with a circular apex- 
Peduncles from the crown of the (now leafless) tuber, 
three, five, or seven-flowered. 
A native of Bengal. From Poornea Mr. B. Smith 
sent me a plant to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where 
it flowers in March, its leafless period, but has not yet 
produced ripe seeds. The leaves spread much and are 
deciduous about the end of the rains, and appear after the 
flowers have perished, in Apriland May. As in our East 
Indian armed Euphorbias, the flowers are compound, 
atis several male corollets surround the pistillum. Tas 
12. E. hirta. Willd. 2. 897. 
Annual, hairy, oblique, with the apices recurved. Leaves 
opposite, obliquely oblong, serrulate, Gegheles axilla) 
peduncled, globular. ico 
Beng. Bura keru. 2300 
_Tithymalus botryoides. Burm. zeyl. 223. t. 104. 
A common weed every where, and in n flower and 
whole year. ) ta 
13. E. sit ge Willd. 2, 898. z : : 
_ Annual, smooth, dichotomous, oblique. Leaves opp 
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