114 EUPHORBIACEE. Mires 
1, T. involucrata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 980; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 
576 ; Royle Ill. 327; F. B. I. v, 465 ; Watt BE. D.; Prain Beng. 
Pl. 952 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 621. 
A perennial more or‘less hispid herb, with scattered stinging hairs: 
Stems elongate, slender, twining. Leaves 1-4 in. long,variable, oblong- 
lanceolate-to broadly ovate, acuminate, serrate, hairy ; base rounded 
or cordate; petioles 3-2 long; stipules } in. long, ovate, acute, 
somewhat auricled at the base. Flowers yellowish, shortly stalked, 
usually in hairy racemes 1-2 in. long ; bracts ;\, in. long, lanceolate, 
acute. MALE flowers : Sepals 3, broadly elliptic or orbicular, 
concave, glabrous, 7; in. long. Stamens 3. Pistillode minute, 3-fid. 
Fem. flowers: Sepals 6, ovate, pinnatifid, very hispid, § in. long, 
elongating in fruit. Ovary 3-lobed, hispid ; styles 3, united below in 
a stout column which is often as long as ‘the circinnately revolute 
branches. Capsules 4 in. in diam., 3-lobed, white, hispid. Seeds 
globose, smooth. 
Ferests of N. Oudh (R. Thompson), Kheri district (Duthie) DisTris.: 
Throughout India from the Punjab and the outer Himalayan ranges 
eastwards to Assam, and south to Burma S. India and Ceylon : also 
in China. The plant is not eaten by cattle. The root, leaves and 
fruit are used medicinally. 
2: Tr. eneneet Linn. f. Suppl. 415 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 575 ; 
Cooke Fl. Bomb. wi, 622. T. ety eee var. cannabina, Wuell.- 
Aygis Foe L.. 0; 465. 
An erect or climbing shrub 4-5 ft. high, not twining, more or less hispid 
and with stinging hairs. Stems stout, terete, woody. Leaves pal- 
mately 3-partite, up to 34 in. long ; lobes toothed or pinnatifid, the 
mid-lobe much longer thaa the lateral ones. Male flowers and calyx 
of female flowers as in 7’ involucrata. Styles 3, slightly spreading, 
not revolute. Capsules 2 in. across, 3-lobed, hirsute ; lobes globose. 
Seeds globose, smooth, 3 in. in diam. . 
Jumna ravines near Etawah (Duthie), Bundelkhand (Duthie), and prob- 
ably in other localities within the area of this flora. DuIsTRIB. : 
Throughout the hotter parts of India and in Ceylon ; often found in 
hedges. 
21. SAPIUM, P. Br.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 469. 
Trees and shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, serrate or toothed, 
penninerved, petiole often 2-glandular at the top. Flowers mone- 
cious, in terminal simple or branched spikes or racemes, apetalous 
and without any disk; males above, several in each bract ; 
