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leafy ; branches slender, some whorled round the stem from the upper 

 leaf-axils, others in a whorled utnbellate crown from the top of the stem, 

 all again dichotomously branched. Leaves of the stem alternate, sessile, 

 2^-4 by ^-^ in., linear-oblong, lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, entire, 

 glabrous, base tapering ; leaves beneath the whorled crown of branches 4, 

 sessile, radiating, broader than the stem-leaves ; floral leaves (bracts) 

 beneath the dicliotomous forks, opposite, broadly ovate or orbicular, 

 acute, mucronate, rounded at the base. Involucres solitary, axillary in 

 the upper axils, and terminal, j\ in. in diam. at the mouth, campanulate, 

 glabrous; pedicels sliort ; lobes short, subquadrate, ciliate ; gland semi- 

 lunate, horned, reaching ^ in. long, including the 2 decurved acute 

 horns. Capsules nearly | in. in diam., glabrous ; styles y-L in. long, 

 free almost to the base, 2-fid at the apex. Seeds ^-^ in. long, oblong, 

 semicylindric, rounded at the base, grooved down one side, with a fleshy 

 rugulose arillode at the oblique depressed apex, bluish-grey when ripe, 

 smooth. i4. B. I. v. 5, p. 263; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 226; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 1864; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 8; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1899) p. 369. Eup7iorbia glanca, Roxb. M. Ind. v. 4 (1832) 

 p. 473. E. secjetalis. Grab. Cat. p.'l79 (noi of Willd.).— Flowers : Sept. 

 -Nov. Vbbn. Dudhi. 



KoNKAN : SfocJtS !, Latu ! ; Dasgaun, Balzell cf- Gibson. Deccan : Mabablesbwar, 

 commou, Gookel, H.M.Birdioood; near Satara, Kaiiifkarl ; Aiubadkhincl near Bhor, 

 Kanitkar ! S. M. Country : Belgaiim, Ritchie, 1251 ! — Distiub. India (hills of 

 Central India, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



7. Euphorbia pycnostegia, Boiss. Cent. Euplwrh. (1860) p. 9. 

 Annual, .slender, erect, glabrous, dichotomously branched, 1-2 ft. high ; 

 stems often tinged with purple, terete, smooth, with swollen rather 

 distant nodes. Leaves of the stem thin, 1-1| by g-f in., opposite, 

 sessile, oblong, obtuse or subacute, glabrous or nearly so, entire or finely 

 serrulate ; floral leaves reaching § in. long, distichously imbricating, 

 broadly ovate-cordate or suborbicular, often tinged with purple, reti- 

 culately veined, entire or serrulate, obtuse, often shortly apiculate ; 

 stipules minute, fimbriate. Involucres stalked, \ in. or more long 

 (including the stalk), turbinate, glabrous outside, hairy inside ; lobes 

 fimbriate ; gland transversely oblong ; limb white, obliquely obovate or 

 suborbicular, rounded at the apex. Capsules glabrous ; cocci obtusely 

 keeled ; styles short, divaricate, each deeply 2-lobed. Seeds yL iu. long, 

 oblong, obtusely 4-angled, tubei'culate. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 246"; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 369. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Law ! ; Salsette, Laio ! Deccan : Bhore, Kanitkar ! ; Khandala, 

 Cooke ! ; Mahableshwar, H. M. Birdwood. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



8. Euphorbia zornioides, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. v. 15, part 2 (1862) 

 p. 19. Glabrous ; stem erect, 1-2 ft. high, alternately and dichoto- 

 mously much-branched, sometimes reaching ^ in. in diam., and woody 

 at the base ; stem and branches dark reddish-brown, smooth, polished, 

 terete, with long internodes. Leaves very shortly petiolate, f-l| by 

 |-| in,, linear-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, finely serrulate, oblique, unequal- 

 sided and subcordate at the base ; stipules triangular, fimbriate ; floral 

 leaves finely reticulately veined, 4—^ in. long, becoming smaller upwards, 

 oblique at the base, serrulate, the upper distichously imbricating, often 

 with pink margins, very shortly petiolate. Involucres subsolitary, 



