106 EUPHORBIACEZ.  [ CurozopHora 
3. C. prostrata, Dalz. in Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 233 > 
Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 607. C. plicata, forma prostrata, Hook f. in 
F. B. I. v, 410. 
A procumbent humifuse stellately woolly herb ; branches many, spread- 
ing from the root, woolly-tomentose. Leaves 4-1 in. long and about 
as broad, deeply bullate, often dark purplish-brown, finely pubescent 
above, densely stellate-woolly beneath, base eglandular. Flowers in 
short few-flowered axillary racemes; bracts linear, }—+4 in. long. 
Male flowers. Calyx3in. long. Petals smaller, elliptic-lanceolate. 
Stamens 15, in two whorls. Fem. flowers. Sepals linear, acute. 
Petals linear, smaller and narrower than the sepals. Capsule } in 
in diam., stellately woolly, without silvery scales. 
Gorakhpur district (Dulthie); Naorangah (Jacquemont). DzstTRrB. : 
Bengal, in Behar, Patna (Buch.-Hamilton)-Wall. Cat. 7716 C. partly ; 
Punjab Plain, Lahore (T. Thomson), Multan (Edgeworth 8028), 
Jabalpur (Vicary); C. India, Guna (King); C. Prov., Nimar district 
near Hewra (Duthie) ; evithout locality (R. Thompson) ; also in the 
Bombay and Madras Presidencies, and extending to N. Africa. 
Var. parvifolia. C. parvifolia, Klotzsch ex Schweinf. Pl. Nilot. 10. 
Leaves longer than broad, 2-glandular at the base. Bundelkhand, in 
black soil (Edgeworth 8029) ; N. Oudh in the Kheri district (Duthie) ; 
Lucknow (T. Anderson); Mirzapur (Griffith), Farakhabad and 
Fatehpur (Griffith 4794). Distriz.: Punjab Plain: (Edgeworth 
126), (T. Thomson 1508), (Drummond 3061, 6348), Sind (Stocks 547) ; 
oe south to Bombay and Madras Presidencies, also in N. 
rica. 
14, BALIOSPERMUM, Blume; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 461. 
Erect shrubs. Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, 
penninerved or 3-5-nerved at the 2-glandular base. Flowers small, 
moncecious or dicecious, apetalous, arranged in panicles or racemes. 
Mate fl. globose. Sepals 4-6, membranous, orbicular, concave, 
imbricate. Disk of 4-6 glands. Stamens 10-30 ; filaments slender, 
free ; anthers terminal, the cells adnate throughout to the broad con- 
nective, dehiscing introrsely, the slits at length becoming lateral. 
Pistillodenone. Ferm. fi. Sepals 5-6, lanceolate, entire or toothed, 
Sometimes accrescent in fruit. Disk entire. Ovary 3-celled ; 
styles rather long, stout, 2-fid. or-partite, stigmas smooth, ovules 
solitary in each cell. Fruit a capsule of three 2-valved crustaceous 
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