cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^. (J. I). Hooker.) 251 



t. 478. E. liirta, Linn. 1. c. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 472 ; Jacq. Collect, v. t. 11, 

 f. 1 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 179; Dalz. <$f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 227; Benth. FL 

 Austral, vi. 51, and Fl. Honcjk. 302. E. capitata, Wall. Cat. 7708, B to 

 F.Burm. Thcs. ZeyL t. 104 and 105, f. I. Wall. Cat. 7707 B. 



Throughout the hotter parts of INDIA from the Punjab eastwards and southwards 

 to CEYLON and SINGAPORE. DISTIUB. All tropical and subtropical countries. 



Stem and branches 1-2 ft. Leaves very shortly petioled, f-lj in. long, base 

 usually narrow and obliquely cordate ; stipules minute, linear ; petiole distinct. 

 Involucres about ^ in. ; glands small, globose, without a perceptible limb. Capsule 

 j 1 ^ in. diam,, appressedly or patently hairy. Seeds ovoid. The acute leaves, hispid 

 hairiness, and small fruit render this species easily recognizable. 



15. ZS. roseaj Retz. Obs. iv. 26 ; perennial, glabrous or sparsely hairy, 

 stems prostrate flexuous, leaves opposite coriaceous obliquely obovate or 

 linear-spathnlate tip rounded orenulate, involucres solitary or few in small 

 leafy axillary and terminal sessile cymes towards the ends, of the branches, 

 lobes 3-5-fid, limb of 2 upper glands large obliquely oblong or rounded, of 

 2 lower very narrow, styles very slender, cocci obtusely keeled, seed 

 rugose. Boiss. Euphorb. Ic. t. 21, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 50; Thwaites 

 Enum. 269. E. thyinifolia, Wall. Cat. 7710 D. E. indica, Wall Cat. 7711 0. 

 E. parviflora & satureioides, LamJc. Diet. ii. 424. ? E. auriculaiia, Boiss. 

 Cent. Euphorb. 17, and in DC. I. c. 50. 



DECCAN PEMNSTJLAJ from the Carnatic to Tranquebar, on the coast, Rottler, &c. 

 CEYLON; common near the sea. DISTKIB. Afghanistan. 



Root long and stout ; stems brittle, 4-8 in. long; branches straggling, firm, loosely 

 leafy. Leaves ^-| in. long, lower distant, upper more crowded .often subsquarrose y 

 rarely truncate; stipules minute, triangular, fimbriate. Involucre ^-\ in. diam., 

 subcampanulate ; lobes triangular ovate, acute; glands suborbicularfc often deep 

 purple, limb rosy very conspicuous ; styles deeply bifid. -C^eci vfy,j, minutely 

 rough. Boissier's figure of this is very unsatisfactory as regards hubiti. I can find 

 no character whereby to distinguish his E. auricularia, which he says differs from E. 

 rosea in being glabrous, with the floral leaves not imbricate, nor narrowed, in the 

 smooth capsule and involucre, and in the styles spathulate at tlie tip. It is described 

 from a specimen of Heyne's iu the St. lretersbur|p HerbariuA. - 



16. E. corrig-ioloides, BoisafJBent. EupJiorb. 11, and in'DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 32 ; perennial, glabrous or -papiflosely pubescent, stems stout prostrate 

 and ascending leafy, leaves opposite to 5 in. coriaceous orbicular to 

 obliquely oblong serrulate tip rounded, involucres -turbiiiate crowded in 

 small subsessile axillary and terminal often capitate cymrs or leafy heads, 

 limb of gland (when present) white lobed, styles (^usually slender, cocci 

 obtusely keeled, seed smooth. ? E. disticha, EnjeTm. in Herb. Vind. ex 

 Boiss. in DC. I. c. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, lleyne; Maisor and the CaVnatif, Wight, &.c. 



Root stout, crowned with a short stock ; branchVs long- and flexuous, 4-10 in., 

 pale, usually much stouter than in other species of tfhis section. Leaves distichously 

 spreading, thickly coriaceous, base rounded or obliquely cordate ; petiole short, thick ; 

 stipules short, triangular, lacerate. Cymes leafy at the base. Involucres turbmate, 

 ,\ in. diam., shortly pedicelled; lobes broad and cleft to the base into many bristles; 

 limb when present often broader than the gland and very conspicuous. Styles more 

 slender than in others of the section, but this character seems variable. Capsule 

 j'j in. diam. Except by its stout habit, perennial root and longer styles, it is not 

 easy to distinguish some states of this from some of E. hypericifolia. Between E. 

 disticha and corrigioloides, as distinguished by Boissier, I 'can find no good diagnosis. 

 Of the former he says, " Very closely allied to E. corrigioloides, but appearing to differ 

 in the very short internodes, short styles, &c.," characters which 1 find applicable to 

 specimens of the latter. 



