246 cxxxv. EUPITORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Euphorbia. 



SECT. III. TITHYMALUS. Herbs, rarely shrubby below, usually envt . 

 branches terete, not fleshy. Leaves alternate, upper (rarely all) opposite, 

 exstipulate. Involucres in terminator axillary cymose umbels radiating 

 in threes ; glands without a petaloid limb. 



7. GALABHJEUS. Involucral glands transversely oblong with rounded margins. 



sp.-%v5Tv-v 



8. ESFLA. Involucral glands truncate retuse or 2-cornute. Sp. 49-54. 



1. ELEGANTES (see p. 245). 



* Floral leaves distichous, secund, imbricating and concealing the 

 involucres. 



1. ZS. pycnostegria, Boiss. Cent. JEtipk. 9, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 



18 ; annual, erect, glabrous, leaves opposite oblong obtuse or cuspidate sub- 

 serrulate, floral distichously imbricating broadly ovate-eordate or orbicular, 

 involucres subsolitary glabrous, lobes toothed, limb of glands large obliquely 

 obovate entire, cocci obtusely keeled glabrous or puberulous, seeds with 

 sinuous furrows or flattened tubercles. 



WESTEEN GHATS ; from the Concan to the Nilghiris, Perrottet, Law, &c. 



A rather slender dichotomously branched herb, 1-2 feet high. Leaves 1-1 J in. 

 long, thin, glabrous, except a few scattered long hairs at the axils and near them, 

 nerves very obscure ; floral collected in an oblong head ; stipules minute, fimbriate. 

 Involucres turbinate, hairy within. Styles short, 2-lobed. Seeds obtusely 4-angled, 

 greenish, powdery, sometimes very obscurely furrowed. Boissier's var. lixa, named 

 by him ]E. oligantha in Hook. Herb , I think is certainly his E. erythroclada, under 

 which I have described it. 



2. E. zornioides, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 19; annual, erect, 

 glabrous, leaves opposite cordately linear-oblong obtuse or mucronate serru- 

 late, floral distichously imbricating broadly ovate cordate, involucres sub- 

 solitary glabrous, lobes fimbriate, limb of glands large entire rosy, cocci 

 obtusely angled glabrous, seeds smooth or papillose. 



The CONCAN, Law, Stocks, &c. 



Habit and general character of E. pycnostegia, of which it is probably a variety 

 with narrower cauline and smaller floral leaves; the seeds are of the same form, pow- 

 dery surface and colour, but without traces of sinuous furrows. 



3. 22. elegrans ? Spreng. Syst. iii. 794 ; annual, erect, clothed with long 

 soft spreading hairs, leaves opposite broadly obliquely oblong elliptic or 

 ovate-cordate obtuse serrulate towards the tips, floral broader distichously 

 imbricating reticulate, involucres few hirsute, limb of glands large sinuate 

 rosy, cocci globose pubescent, seeds grooved cross-wise and granulate. 

 Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 19. E. variegata, Heyne in Both Nov. Sp. 



225. E platylepis, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. _Z?o. 156, t. 157. E. strobilifera, 

 Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. (1851) 229; Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 



226. ? E. dichotoma, Boxl. Fl. Ind. ii. 471. 



DEC-CAN PENINSULA, Heyne. MALWA, Edgeioorth. WESTEEN BEEAR, a weed 

 of cultivation. The CONCAN'; on naked rocks, Law, Stocks, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., dichotomously branched. Leaves crowded or in distant pairs, 

 ^-1 in. long, subsessile; floral variable, often obovate, reticulate; stipules minute, 

 setaceous. Involucres turbinate, pubescent without and within ; lobes obovate ; limb 

 /of glands very conspicuous. Styles elongate, 2-nd. Boissier's var. laxa, with the 

 wpper leaves not imbricate, is probably a form growing in shade. 



