B96 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol XIX. 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



EuPhorTjia antiquo- 

 rum, 



Jidhtira-feUud 

 Euphokbiace^. 

 F. B. I. V 25:"). 

 The Plains to 2,000 ft. 



Petals None. 



large, smooth, fleshy, branches cylindric or some- 

 what angled, branchlets with three to five wavy 

 wings, juice milky ; leaves few, small, on the sides 

 of thu wings, the wings ovate oblong with broa<l 

 rounded tips, fleshy, shortly stalked ; stipules are two 

 thorns ; flowers | in. broad, yellow in bracteate 

 clusters, outer flowers stalked, inner sessile, bracteoles 

 many, fringed flowers otherwise like the last species ; 

 capsule h in, diameter, cells flattened, smooth. 



Buphorbia Hoyieana, 



Thor. 



Euphorbiace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 257. 

 Salt range and Himalaya 

 to 6,000 ft. 



large, fleshy, smooth, branches straight, erect, 5-7 

 angled, the angles are wavy wings, the branches grow 

 in clusters close to each other giving it the name of 

 Candelabra tree , leaves 4-6 ins. long, along the 

 angles of the branches, soon falling off, sessile, broad 

 and rounded narrowing to the base, fleshy, smooth, 

 stipules are two prickles ; flowers i in. diam., 

 yellow, in sessile axillary clusters, lobes four, broad 

 and round, fringed, flowers otherwise like the 

 previous species of Euphorbia, capsules ^' in. diam., 

 3-angled, stalks tJ-^ in. long. 



Phyllaatlius parvi- 

 folius, 



Euphobbiace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 294. 



Himalaya, 5(5,000 ft. 

 Naldera. Theog(Collett). 



small, bark pale, foliage feathery, branchlets look 

 like pinnate leaves ; leaves \-^ in. in two rows, sessile, 

 oblong, base narrow, tip rounded, pale below, stipules 

 triangular, very minute, slender tapering to a point ; 

 flowers male and female, minute -,'pj in. brown pur- 

 ple, stalked, solitary, axillary, sepals 6, oblong, blunt in 

 males , stamens 3, rarely 5 ; in females, styles 3 ; cap- 

 sule ^ in. diam. round, somewhat lobed with a hard 

 and brittle smooth, shell, seeds minutely marked with 

 brown, smooth. 



Fliylla&tlius simplez, 



EUPHOKBIACEiE. 

 F. B. I. v. 295. 

 The Plains and Himalaya 

 to 5,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 

 (Collett). 



small, branches slendei flattened, leaves ^-1 in 

 linear-oblong, in two rows, rather leathery, pale below, 

 nearly sessile, stipules target-shaped, with wedge- 

 shaped lobes at the base, fringed or smooth ; flowers 

 male and female, minute, ^'^ in., brown purple, often 

 three together, sepals 6, in males, broadly oblong, 



