8 Euphordiacecs. [Euphorbia. 



falling; fl.-heads minute, numerous, shortly stalked, crowded 

 in small rounded pedunculate axillary cymes; inv. very small, 

 glands obscure or o; capsule minute, adpressed-hairy, lobes 

 keeled ; seeds ovoid-trigonous, transversely wrinkled, bright 

 light brown. 



Cultivated gi ound ; a very common weed. Fl. all the year ; greenish. 

 Throughout the Tropics. 



The names hirta zxid. pilulifera are of equal authority, and either may 

 be used. 



8. S. thymifolla, L. Sp. PL 454 (1753). Bln-dadaeklrlya, 5. 

 Chlttlrapalavl, T. 



Burm. Thes. 225. Fl. Zeyl. n. 198. Moon, Cat. 38. E. Burman- 

 niaiia^ Gay. Thw. Enum. 269. C. P. 2128. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 252. {E. Burmanniana). Burm. Thes. t. 105, f. 3 

 (good). 



Small, annual; stems depressed-prostrate, cylindrical, 

 divaricately branched, hairy; I. opp., very small, \-\ in., 

 oblong-oval, rounded and very oblique at base, rounded at 

 apex, dentate-serrate, glabrous above, glaucous and slightly 

 hairy beneath ; petiole very short ; stip. minute, serrate ; 

 fl.-heads very small, sessile, 1-3 in axil; inv. campanulate^ 

 hairy, lobes very short, glands o, or very minute; capsule 

 with bluntly keeled lobes, hairy. 



Waste and cultivated ground ; a common weed. Fl. all the year ^ 

 pinkish. 



Throughout the Tropics, except N. Australia. 



Whole plant often has a pale coppery tinge. 



The severed end of a branch, made to touch lightly the surface of 

 water, has the singular effect of violently repelling to a considerable 

 distance all floating particles in the neighbourhood. 



E. viicropJiylla^ Heyne in Roth, Nov. Sp. (?). Under the name oi E. 

 Chamasyce^ Thwaites (Enum. 269) records C. P. 2655. The specimens 

 were collected by Glenie at Trincomalie in 1859, but are so very frag- 

 mentary as to be quite useless for determination. 



9. E. Rothiana, Sprcng. Syst. Veg. iii. 796 (1826). 



Thw. Enum. 269. E. oreophila, Miq.; Trim. Syst. Cat. 78. C. P. 

 2124. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 263. Wight, Ic. t. 1864. 



Perennial herb; stem about 2 ft., erect, cylindrical, gla- 

 brous, branched above, glaucous; I. alt., sessile, 2^-4 in., linear- 

 lanceolate, tapering to both ends, acute, entire, glabrous, 

 floral ones (bracts) opp., ovate, rounded at base, mucronate; 

 fl.-heads in the bifurcations of large ax dichotomous terminal 

 cymes ; inv. small, glabrous, campanulate, villous within, lobes 



