Euphorbia.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 



249 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. MALACCA, Griffith, Malngay. CEYLON, Walker, Thwaites. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago, China, Australia, Pacific Islands. 



A dwarf seaside shrub (sometimes climbing?); root stout, long; stems rigid, 

 polished, erect inclined or prostrate, branching upwards, rarely as thick ns a goose- 

 quill. Leaves subsessile, f-l| in., coriaceous, longer or shorter than the internodes.; 

 stipules minute, fimbriate. Involucres turbinate, glabrous ; lobes triangular ; glands 

 with a very minute limb or margin. Styles short, 2-tid. Capsule glabrous ; cocci 

 hardly keeled. Seeds nearly globose. 



11. 22. linearifolia, Roth Nov. Sp. 224; quite glabrous, glaucous, 

 stems decumbent, leaves 1 in. opposite and sec and subimbricate very coria- 

 ceous obliquely linear obtuse or acute quite entire lower in distant pairs 

 ovate, involucres few subcorymbose towards the tips of the branches or 

 solitary and axillary, lobes triangular-ovate Imiry, limb of glands large 

 obovate white, styles short, capsule glabrous, foiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 33. E. linearis, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 7712. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne. 



A very remarkable species, quite unlike any other, of which I have seen only 

 fragments in Wallich's Herbarium, and can add little to the descriptions of Roth and 

 Boissier. The branches appear to be stout, curved, and swollen at the nodes as in 

 E. Atoto ; the leaves are almost fleshy, with a stout midrib ; their arrangement 

 resembles that of the leaflets of a pinnate leaf. 



12. 22. hypericifolia, Linn. Hort. Cliff. 198 ; annual, glabrous or sparsely 

 pubescent, erect ascending or decumbent, leaves opposi^^bliquely broadly 

 or narrowly oblong obtuse serrulate, nerves distinct, h^Hfefciliecied or cor- 

 date, involucres minute in axillary and terminal 



many-fld. cymes with many subulate bracts often 



leaves rarely solitary entire glabrous, lobes lanceolate /oibffltaHtHi 



or larger than the gland usually rounded and wl 



hardly keeled glabrous or hispid 



verse pits. Boiss. in DC. Pror/r. tf^^^BiBBflbh Jfl^^^H 



Enum. 268; Benth. FL HongJc. 



I. c., and Fl. Orient, iv. 1086 ; " 



Bot. Bemerk. 119. E. decum 



Dennst. ScJduss. Hort. Mai. 



FL Ind. ii. 472 ; Boiss. in 



Gibs. Bomb. FL 227. E. pap 



Boiss. in DC. I. c. 22. B 



Wall. Cat. 7Q86.fiheede 



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and 



flora 

 Pnaller 

 ihctat, cocci 

 ityfr trans- 

 fTkwaites 

 |r3 ; Boiss. 

 , Presl 

 ssemoides, 

 '047 ; 'Rosrb. 

 9; Dalz. $ 

 bracteolaris, 

 Euphorb., 



, ascending to 

 EYLON. DISTRIB. 



ijab, 



Common throughout the 

 4000 ft. in the Himalaya, to t 

 Tropics of both hemispheres, e 



A rather slender, rarely sto^^^^^^l -rrffious habit. Leaves, 



}-\ in., rarely more or less, not con^^^^^^^^^^^l IHIfiito on all the margins 

 except towards the base ; stipules mintrrajlHINpl^^^^^Por 0. Involucres very 

 minute, turbinate, glabroilfe, with quite entire imrra^WBP:ts at the base of the 

 pedicel ; glands very shortly stipitate, lobes usually projecting above the glands ; 

 limb of the latter white or pale' pink, always small, but very variable in size, some- 

 times 0. Capsule subglobose ; cocci more or less pubescent or glabrous. Seeds with 

 a thin mucous coat, bluish when dry, very variable as to the amount and depth of 

 the shallow depressions on the faces which are often obsolete. After a very careful 

 examination of numerous specimens, I cannot separate E. indica from E. hyperici- 

 folia, as indeed was the opinion of Bentham, Engelmann and Thwaites. The latter 

 author quite correctly identifies with it Burmann's t. 105 f. 2, which is the authority 

 tor Linnaeus' E. parviflora, and of which Roxburgh's excellent figure differs in no 

 respect from hypericifolia and indica. Wallich's No. 7686, from Nepal, is a very 



