78 EUPHORBIACE. [Eurmonnta,’ 
6. E. dracunculoides: Lamk. Encycl. Method. ii, 428; Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. ii, 474 ; F. B. I. v, 262 ; Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. Pl. 924 ; 
Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 564. 
A glabrous dichotomously much-branched annual. Stems many, erect, 
leafy, 12-18 in. high. Leaves sessile, 13-22 in. long, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, subacute; base acute, rarely rounded or subcordate ; 
floral leaves shorter, broader at the base. Jnvolucres subsessile, 
solitary, broadly campanulate, j, in. across, glabrous outside, hairy 
~ within ; lobes ovate, ciliolate ; glands semi-lunate. Filaments pubes- 
cent. Capsules smooth, 3-% in. diam. ; styles free to the base, shortly 
2-fla. Seeds i in. long, ellipsoid, rounded at the base, grooved on one 
side and with a strophiole at the oblique depressed apex ; testa whitish, 
leprous, rugose or tuberculate. 
NN. W. India (Royle), Moradabad (T. Thomson), Sub-Himalayan tracts 
in Rohilkhand and N. Oudh (Duthie), Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell). 
Usually in cultivated ground. Flowers April to June. Disram. : 
Plains of Punjab and Bengal, and southwards to Kanara and Coro- 
mandel ; also in Arabia and Trop. Africa. 
7. E. Rothiana, Spreng. Syst. iu, 796; F. B. I. v, 263; Cooke 
Fl. Bomb. ii, 564. E. glauca, Roxb. Fl. Ind. w, 473. 
An erect glaucous annual or perennial herb. Stem 1-2 ft. high, glab- 
rous, terete, copiously branched above, often tinged with red ; branches 
slender, some in whorls from the upper axils, others in a whorled 
-umbellate crown from the top of the stem, all again dichotomously 
branched. Leaves of the stem alternate, sessile, 2-44 in. long, linear- 
lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, mucronulate, entire, glabrous, 
tapering to the base ; leaves beneath the whorled crown of branches 
4, sessile, radiating, broader than those of the stem; floral leaves 
(bracts) beneath the dichotomous forks opposite, broadly ovate or 
orbicular, acute, mucronate, rounded at the base. Jmnvolucres soli- 
tary in the upper axils and terminal, 75 in. across, campanulate, 
glabrous or hairy outside, villous within ; pedicels short ; lobes sub- 
quadrate, ciliate ; glands crescent-shaped. Capsules about } in. in 
diam., glabrous ; styles 75 in. long, free almost to the base, 2-fid. at 
the apex. Seeds 1-4 in. long, semicylindric, rounded at the base, 
grooved on one side and with a fleshy rugulose strophiole at the 
oblique depressed apex, smooth, bluish-grey when ripe. 
‘Bundelkhand on black soil (Edgeworth). Distrrs.: Hills of Central 
and Southern India and in the Bombay Presidency ; also in Ceylon. 
