89 -_ BUPHORBIACEE. [EupHorBra. 
at the apex, quite entire, villous on both surfaces; base narrow, 
rounded or subcordate ; stipules minute, ciliolate. Involucres very 
minute, axillary and on short leafy branchlets, subsessile, turbinate ; 
glands usually without a limb. Capsule 7; in. in diam., cocci hir- 
sute, not keeled ; styles very short, 2-fid. Seeds 3, in. long, 4-angled, 
bluntly pointed, faintly pitted, testa mucous when moistened. 
Jumna ravines near Agra (Duthie); Chambal ravines near Etawah 
(Duthie); Rohilkhand, Bundelkhand and Malwa (Edgeworth). 
Distris.: Plains of Punjab and Sind, Chota Nagpur and in 8. India ; 
extending to Afghanistan, Arabia, Egypt and the Canary Islands. 
The leaves are said to be often used as a pot-herb. 
15, E. microphylla, Heyne ex Roth Nov. Pl. Sp. 229; F. B. I. 
V, 252; Wait EB. D.; Prain Beng. Pl. 925 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. vi, 570. 
E. Chamesyce, Willd.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. wu, 473. 
‘A subglabrous annual, or perennial (according to Roxburgh). Stems 
many, prostrate, very slender, spreading from the root and dichoto- 
mously branched, pale, glabrous, brittle. Leaves opposite, coriace- 
ous, }-} in. long and about as broad, obliquely oblong rounded-oblong 
or subquadrate, rounded truncate or retuse at the apex, entire or 
toothed only at the broad end, margins often pink ; stipules minute, 
triangular, 2-partite or laciniately toothed. Jnvolucres axillary, 
subsolitary, minute, very shortly stalked, broadly campanulate, 
glabrous ; lobes triangular, apiculate ; glands very shortly stalked 
and with a very small limb. Capsule glabrous, 7 in. in diam., ob- 
tusely keeled ; styles short, deeply 2-fid. Seeds less than y% in. long- 
obtusely 4-angled, blunt at the apex, pale-brown, smooth, mucous 
when moistened. 
Bundelkhand (Edgeworth) ; Sub-Himalayan tracts of N. Oudh in the 
districts of Gonda, Bahraich and of Gorakhpur (Duthie); on the 
banks of the Ganges (Madden). DisTrre.: Bengal, Behar, Konkan, 
Madras, extending to Burma and Java. 
16. E. Clarkeana, Hook. f. F. B. I. v, 253; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 
ii 570. E. granulata, (Herb. Royle). E. Heyneana, Boiss. (in part). 
A glabrous annual. Stems many, 3-8 in. long, usually prostrate and 
spreading. Leaves opposite, }-% in. long, very shortly stalked, dichoto- 
mously spreading, coriaceous and glabrous, often crowded towards 
the ends of short branchlets, obliquely linear-oblong, entire or toothed 
at the rounded apex, glabrous, base almost auricled on one side ; 
stipules rather large, setaceous from a broad toothed base. Involu- 
