EUPHORBIACEAE 223 
7. E. HYPERICIFOLIA L. 
An annual, erect, branched, glabrous, plant 20 to 60 m high, the 
branches slender, often purplish. Leaves shortly petioled, thin, oblong, 1 
to 2.56 em long, somewhat oblique, obtuse, base broad, rounded or cordate, 
margins serrulate. Involucres about 1 mm long, in axillary and terminal, 
leafy, many-flowered cymes, greenish, the glands small, the lobes white 
or pink, very small. Capsule trigonous, ovoid, about 1.5 mm long, nod- 
ding. 
In open grass lands, Caloocan, La Loma, etc., fl. Dec—Apr.; of local 
occurrence in the Philippines and undoubtedly introduced here. Tropics 
generally. 
8. E. Hirta L. (£. pilulifera L.). Batobatonis, Bucasbucas (Tag.); Go- 
landrina (Sp.—Fil.). . 
An annual, hispid-pubescent herb usually much-branched from the base, 
the branches ascending or spreading, up to 40 cm long, simple or forked, 
often reddish or purplish. Leaves opposite, distichous, elliptic-oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, oblique, serrulate, acute, usually blotched with purple 
in the middle, 1 to 2.5 em long. Involucres greenish or purplish, about 
1 mm long, very numerous, in dense, axillary, sessile or short-stalked clus- 
ters or crowded cymes. Capsules broadly ovoid, 1.5 mm long or less, 
hairy, 3-angled. 
In open waste places, abundant, fi. all the year; throughout the Phil- 
ippines, but certainly introduced. Tropics generally. 
9. E. THYMIFOLIA Burm. 
An annual, spreading or prostrate, much-branched, slender, glabrous or 
somewhat pubescent herb, the stems usually reddish, up to 20 cm in length. 
Leaves opposite, distichous, somewhat oblique, elliptic to oblong, obtuse, 
obscurely crenulate, 4 to 7mm long. Involucres about 1 mm long, purplish, 
in the axils of much reduced leaves or bracts on crowded short branchlets 
from the leaf-axils. Capsules pubescent, 3-angled, about 1.5 mm long. 
In open waste places, roadsides, etc., fl. all the year; common and widely 
distributed in and about towns in the Philippines and certainly introduced. 
Tropics generally. 
10. E. PROSTRATA Ait. 
A slender, prostrate or spreading, branched, nearly glabrous annual 
herb, the stems usually less than 15 cm in length, usually pubescent along 
one side. Leaves small, short-petioled, elliptic to obovate, rounded, base 
inequilateral, margins sharply toothed, 5 to 8 mm long. Involucres axil- 
lary, pedicelled, intermixed with reduced leaves. Capsules glabrous except 
for the hispid-ciliate keels of the cocci. Similar in appearance to the 
preceding species, ’ 
In waste places, not common, fl. all the year. A native of tropical 
America, now widely distributed in the tropics. 
2. BRIDELIA Willdenow 
Shrubs or trees with alternate, entire leaves. Flowers small, monoecious 
or dioecious, in axillary fascicles, sessile or shortly pedicelled, bracteate. 
Calyx usually 5-cleft, the lobes valvate. Petals much smaller than the calyx- 
lobes. Disk broad, in the male flowers cushion-like or adnate to the calyx- 
tube, in the female flowers often enclosing the ovary. Stamens 5; filaments 
united below in a column which bears the rudimentary ovary, free above, 
