1. Euphobbia.] 22. EVFRORBIACEJE. 



1. E. antiquorum, L. Etkec', S. 



A shrub or small tree np to 20 ft., usually leafless, or 

 leaves few and deciduous, obovate-oblong with rounded tip. 

 Involucres 3-uate, forming short-peduncled' cymes in the 

 sinuses. Styles 2-cleft. 



Occasional in village hedges. Given as a cure for cough, Camp. 



2. E. neriifolia, L. Etke, K. ; Etkec', S. Syn. E. ligu- 

 laria, Roxb. 



A shrub o^ small tree 6-15 ft. with sharp stipular thorns 

 on sub-confluent tubercles, arranged in vertical or spiral lines. 

 L. usually present, narrowly obovate or obovate-oblong, 

 usually acute. Involucres 3-nate in small short-peduncled 

 cymes l§-2" long above the leaf-scars. Style 3-lobed. 



Apparently wild in western Palamau, among' rocks. Frequent in 

 villages. 



Fl. Feby.-March. Deciduous March-Jxme. 



This is perhaps the E. ligulata which is referred to as being common 

 along the Soane, in the Himalayan Journals. 



The cymes begin as single male! receptaclos, bearing two ovate-lanceo- 

 late bracts at the base of the short stuut pedicel. In the axils of these 

 arise two » turbinate receptacles bearing female flowers,_ and again sub- 

 tended by a pair of bracts' as long as the involucre, which are 3-lobed, 

 mid-lobe being somewhat fimbriate. 



3. E. Nivulia, Earn. Etke, K. ; Etkec ', S. ; Sij, Beng. 



A tree 15-30 ft. high with thick rugose corky bark below 

 when old, and spreading often whorled branches. Branchlets 

 terete armed (or some unarmed). Prominences absent or 

 represented by flat corky areas* L. obovate or oblanceolate to 

 spatlmlate -obovate, 4" by 2|" to 9", by 3J* with rounded or 

 slightly retuse tip. Style columnar, 3-lobed. 



Frequent on barren rocks in Singbhum, Palaman and the Eajmehal 

 Hills (un trap). It is sometimes also grown in villages, and is the true 

 Etke of the Kols, who take the milky juice as a violent purgative in casea 

 of fever. 



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