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58 EUPHORBIACEZ. {Prytanruus. 
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_and often imbricate, subsessile, 3-1 in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse 
and apiculate ; stipules peltate, sagittate, brownish, scarious. 
Flowers usually solitary, on slender or stout pedicels, the females 
larger than the males. Sepals about =, in. long, oblong, obtuse, 
those of the female flowers slightly enlarged in fruit. Stamens 3, 
filanients free ; anthers didymous, the slits very short so that when 
the cells are confluent the dehiscence appears to be transverse. Styles 
short, once 2-fid., free or connate. Capsule globose, 4, in. in diam. 
obscurely 3-lobed, crustaceous, rough but not echinate. Seeds 
minute, trigonous, rounded on the back, finely tubercled, dark- 
brown. 
Dehra Dun (Gamble), Pilibhit, N. Oudh in the districts of Kheri and 
Bahraich (Duthie). Distris.: Throughout the hotter parts of 
India and up to 2,000 ft. in Kumaon ; also in Ceylon, Malay Islands, 
China and in the Pacific Islands. 
6. P. Niruri, Linn. Sp. Pl. 941; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 659 ; 
F. B. I. v, 298 ; Watt E. D.; Comm. Prod. Ind. 887 ; Prain Beng. 
Pl. 936 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 587.—Vern. Jar-amla, jangli-amli. 
A glabrous annual, up to 2 ft. high. Stems often branching from the 
base, angular ; branchlets slender, spreading. Leaves many, subsessile. 
distichous and often overlapping, }-4 in. long,  elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse or rarely subacute, glaucous beneath, nerves obscure ; stipules 
lanceolate-subulate, acute. Flowers axillary, numerous, very minute, 
the males solitary or 2-3-nate, the females solitary, on short pedicels. 
Sepals of male flowers 3, in. long, rounded ; those of the female twice 
as long, oblong, subacute, white-margined, not enlarging in fruit. 
Stamens 3; anthers didymous, on a short column. Styles minute, 
free, 2-lobed. Disk of males of minute glands ; of females annular, 
lobed. Capsule depressed-globose, ,4, in. in diam., smooth, obscurely 
lobed. Seeds trigonous, rounded on the back and with parallel 
regular longitudinal ribs. 
A common garden weed and in cultivated fields within the area ; Dehra 
Dun (Duthie), Moradabad (T. Thomson), Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell), 
etc. Flowers in July and August. Distrris.: Throughout the 
hotter parts of India, also in Ceylon and in most tropical countries, 
but not in Australia. The plant is much used as a diuretic by the 
natives of India. 
P pisticuus, Muell.-Arg.; F. B. I. v, 304; Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. 
Pl: 936; Gamble Man. 600; Brandis Ind. Trees 570; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 
di, 589. P. longifolius, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 672. Cicca disticha, Linn. | 
