248 rxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Ettpltorlia. 



The CONCAX ? Iliifiel, Stocks. 



Stem 1-2 ft., terete, polished ; branches ascending. Leaves rather membranous 

 very shortly petioled ; base not cordate, very unequal but hardly auricled on one sido. 

 My specimens are very imperfect, and without fruit, from the immense collections 

 of Stocks made by himself, Law, and others in the Concan, Canara, and Malabar, but 

 without precise locality. They are labelled by IJoissier E. n. sp., oliganthce affinis ? 

 and are, I think, clearly his JS. erythroclada, as is also his E. pycnostegia var. laxa. 



8. E. coccinea, Roth Nov. Gen. 8f Sp. 228 ; more or less clothed with 

 soft white villons hairs, stems slender purple, leaves in scattered opposite 

 pairs obliquely broadly elliptic or obovate-oblong quite entire tip rounded 

 base broadly auricled on one side, involucres 1 or few in the axils of the 

 crowded small orbicular terminal leaves, lobes long ciliate, limb of 2 glands 

 large pink, cocci compresAd keeled woolly membranous. Boiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 37. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; Ahmedanuggur, Hugel. The CONCAN, Stocks. 



Root woody, apparently perennial. Stems 4-8 in., rigid, slender, angularly flexuous, 

 very brittle. Leaves subsessile, rather coriaceous, very oblique, sometimes retuse ; 

 stipules linear-lanceolate, villous. Involucres in villous leafy subglobose heads, in. 

 din HI., with very conspicuous crenate rosy -purple limbs to two of the glands, and very 

 small ones to the other two glands. Styles slender but not long. Capsule -^ in. long. 

 Probably this should be placed next to IE. cristata. 



2. HTPEBJCIFOLIJE (see p. 245). 



9. E. Wigrhtianaj Hoolc.f. ; perennial, shrubby ?, branches spreading 

 slender, leaves 2-4 in. opposite in distant pairs petioled linear oblong or 

 obovate-oblong entire or serrulate, involucral linear or obovate, involucres 

 solitary axillary or in very short axillary cymes minute puberulous, lobes 

 minute ciliate, capsules oblong puberulous, seeds oblong bluish smooth 

 with a furrow on one side. Euphorb., Wall. Cat. 7692. 



DECCAN PENINSULA* Madras, Wight in Herb. Wall., and Ic. in Herb. Kew. 



Branches woody, terete, as thick as a crow-quill. Leaves very variable, some 

 2-2 5 by ^ in., quite linear and serrulate, others oblong 2| by -|-f in., others 1J by 

 | in., rounded jjfc the tip and narrowed at the base into a distinct. slender petiole ; 

 involucral, son* 1 in. and linear, others | in. and broadly obovate. Involucre almost 

 hemispherical, Itessile ; glands transversely oblong, umvinged ; lobes very small. 

 tffyles short, frdft, 2-fid, erect. Ctoftsule very shortly pedicelled, in. long, not deeply 

 lobed, top rounded, pale, quite smooth. Seeds rather mottled. My only materials 

 for this very curious species arje bad specimens in Herb. Wallich, and a drawing 

 marked " Madras B., W. 446." The latter represents all the leaves serrulate and 

 all the upper linear a'nd acute. It is evidently near E. Atoto. 



10. S. Atoto, Forst. Prodr. fi. 207 ; glabrous, stem stout swollen at the 

 nodes erect ascending or decumbent, leaves opposite oblong or linear-oblong 

 obtuse quite entire, base unequally rounded or cordate, involucres axillary 

 or in leafy terminal corymbose cymes, glands oblong margined, capsule 



flabrous, seeds smooth. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 12; Baill. Adans. vi. 

 82; Benth. FL Austral, vi. 46. E. halophila, Miquel Anal. Sot. iii. 16 ; 

 Boiss. 1. c. 13. E. pallens, Dillw. Rev. Hort. Mai. 55. E. articulata, Dennst. 

 &'Ii.niss. Hort. Mai. 37. E. laevis, Poir. Suppl. ii. 612 ; Boiss. I. c. 13. E.tevi- 

 gata, Vahl Symb. ii. 54. E. Isevigata ? Wall. Gat. 7705. E. bifida, Thwaites 

 Enum. 269 (not of Hook. $ Am.}. Euphorb., Wall. Cat. 7697,IMeede 

 Jfort. Mai. t. 58. ^ 



MALA BAB COAST, from Canara southwards, Wight, &c. PERAK ; Scortechini. 



