EUPHORBIACE^. (SPURGE FAMILY.) 



72T 



vineyards; common along coast, in lower mountains and interior 

 plains. 



2. €. vcrl)a§cifolin, Willd, © .IJ, dcmely 2)annous, divaricately 

 branched. Leaves long-petioled, rounded or subcordate at base, orate 

 to oUong-ovate, obtuse to acutish, repand. Staminate flowers avh- 

 pentandrous; sepals and petals linear - lanceolate — Summer — Fields; 

 coast and interior jilains, especially northward. 



3. C. obliqiia, Vahl. 5 Sammdh. Sammuh. >^(d)l)agh. NIL 

 .5 to 1, 2y(in?ious, wood]/ at hase ; branches erect or ascending. Leaves 

 short- or rather long-petioled, rounded or short-cuneate at base, ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, acutish to acuminate. Staminate llowers subpent- 

 androus, petals ohovate-lanceolate ; \^etn\s of pistillate flowers linear — 

 Summer — El-Beida to Palmyra; south end of Dead Sea, and southward 

 to Sinai and Egypt. 



5. RICI^US, L. Castoii Oil Plakt. Khurica'. 

 Monoecious. Perigonium 3-5-parted, valvate in bud. Petals 0. Disk 

 0. Staminate flowers : stamens very numerous, connate, forming a much- 

 branched panicle; anthers of twin, globular cells. Pistillate floicer^ : 

 ovary ovate-globular, 3-celled, cells 1-ovuled; style o-parted, hirsute, 

 stigmatose along its whole length; capsule of 3, 1-seedcd, 2-valved 

 cells; caruncle of seeds 2-lobed, albumen copious, oily — Shruijs with 

 peltate, palmate-lobed leaves. 



R. comiiiuiii§, L. 5 Common Castor Oil Plant. Khunca' 

 1 to 4; new shoots and petioles and peduncles glaucous, scurfy. 

 Leaves peltate-palmate, 7-11-lobed, lobes lanceolate, d^intate; stipules 

 united, clasping. Flowers in axillary and terminal racemes, the stami- 

 nate below and pistillate above; capsule oblong-ellipsoid, .01 long, echi- 

 nate — Spring — Common on the sea coast, and interior plains; Jordan 

 Valley. 



Fig. 33L 



A twii; of Uicinns ctiinnnmiH, 



(«) A rhister of staminate 

 flowers, {h) A cluster of i)istil- 

 late flowers with forked styles. 

 (c) A peltate-palmate leaf. 



