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^ve, 

 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. 



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 April and May. As in our East 

 Indian armed Euphorbias, the flowers are compound, 

 that is several male corollets surround the pistillum. 



12. E. hirta. Willd. 2. 897. 



Annual, hairy, oblique, with the apices recurved. Leaves 

 opposite, obliquely oblong, serrulate. Umbellets axillary, 

 peduncled, globular. 



Beiig. Bura kerw. 



Tithymalus botryoides. Burm. zeyl. 223. 1. 104. 



A common weed every where, and in flower and seed the 

 whole year. 



13. E. parviflora. Willd. 2. 898. 



Annual, smooth, dichotomous, oblique. Leaves oppo- 



