474 DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Euphorbia. 
A native of Coromandel and Niateend on <i gra- 
vel = &e. ; 
18. E. dracumculoides. Willd. 2. 905. 
Annual, erect, unarmed, ramous above the base. Um- 
bel three or four-fid, dichotomous. Involucres and invo- 
lucells linear, sessile, diverging, entire and smooth. Pe 
tals two-horned. 
Beng. Chagul-putputé. 
A native, of Coromandel and Bengal. _It flowers dut- 
ing the cold season. Differs from exigua, in being ramous 
up to the umbel ; in having the leaves, involucres, and in- 
volucells; linear and spreading horizontally ; and in the 
filaments being nearly cylindric. 
19, E, peltata, R. 
Annual, erect. Leaves and involucres oyate- Lanne 
late ; involucells from oblong to cordate, serrulate. — Pe- 
tals peltate. Capsule round and smooth. 
A native of the interior parts of the Coast of Coroman- 
ay seeds brought from thence to the Company’s Bota- 
nic garden at Calcutta, grew and have continued sowing 
themselves, and producing plants every cold season with- 
out care, 
Stem annual, erect, ramous, round, smooth ; the height of 
the whole plant a foot. Branches curved upwards. Leaves 
alternate, sessile, wedge-shaped, and lanceolate, finely § sel- 
rate, very smooth, Umbels terminal, in six rays ; the par- 
_ tial ones from four to two-cleft. Involucres like the leaves, 
only a little broader, Involucells from oblong to cordate, 
the nearer the apex the broader, all are smooth, and ogg 
ly serrate. Flowers solitary, sessile, small, of a 
yellow. Petals peltate. Capsules round, scarcely any an 
gle to be seen, smooth in every het ety 
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