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Euphorbia 
thymifolia, 
Chota dudhi. 
KuPHORBIACES, 
K. Bols vy 202: 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Euphorbia 
granulata, 
EKuUPHORBIACER. 
BY Be Te y; 252: 
The Plains. 
Euphorbia 
Clarkeana, ~ 
Canal weed, 
KUPHORBIACEA. 
i, oa. de Ve Boos 
The Plains, Lahore, 
Ferozepore. 
Leeanthus Wightii, 
UrticacEs. 
Bebe b. vi559, 
Himalaya, 
east of the Ravi, 
4-12,000 ft. 
Simla on old walls 
(Collett). 
ft 
Planis of the Punjab, 528 
Hgpres WITH Opposite STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVgS, 
PETALS NONE. 
annual, juice milky, much branched from the root, 
leafy, velvety ; leaves } in., oblong, blunt, fleshy, teeth 
short-pointed or rounded, stipules fringed with a long 
point; flowers very minute, almost solitary, greenish, 
axillary, especially in the crowded termina branchlets, 
top-shaped, velvety, sepals 4, short, bristly, petals none, 
glands green 5, horizontal, almost concealing the sepals, 
smooth, fleshy, male flowers many, consisting of one stamen 
with a round anther, female -flowers, one surrounded by. 
several males, consisting of a 3-celled, stalked ovary, 
styles 3, branched; tips short, straight or recurved ; cap- 
sule 1, in. broad, velvety, keeled, seeds wrinkled. The 
seeds, hazardana, are aromatic and astringent, the juice 
is purgative. 
like the last species, but perennial, woolly, smaller, 
leaves ;5-4 in. not toothed, capsule hairy, not keeled, seeds 
faintly itted. 
annual, smooth, reddish, stems thread-like, many, 
spreading from the annual root, leaves 4-} in., linear- 
oblong, entire or toothed at the rounded tip, leathery, 
base almost lobed on one side, leaf stalks very short. 
stipules large, bristly, from a toothed base, flowers ;y in., 
axillary, bell-shaped, chiefly seen towards the tips of lateral 
branches, smooth, lobes lanceolate, toothed, longer than 
the glands, styles very short, capsules #7; in. broad, quite 
smooth, keeled, seeds acutely 4-angled, slightly wrinkled 
transversely ; for other characters see Huphorbia thymi- 
folia just above, This plant always appears on lawns 
especially where canal irrigation is used, it is almost im- 
possible to eradicate it. 
succulent, velvety, stems prostrate, rooting below 
then ascending, 1-4 in., weak; leaves 4-1 in., obliquely 
ovate, 3-nerved at the base, stalked, toothed, stipules 
thin, united, entire or toothed; flowers minute, pink, 
bracteolate, crowded on axillary, stalked heads 3-4 in, 
diam., stalks barely 1 in. long, male and female in differ- 
ent heads on the same or different plants, male calyx 4- or 
5-lobed, lobes nearly equal, stamens 4 or 5, female calyx 
3-lobed, lobes very unequal, one large hooded above, two 
flat, persistent, ovary straight, stigma divided into a tuft 
of hair-like branches, not persistent ; achenes narrow, ob- 
long, ved, longer than the calyx, 
