Euphorbia.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 253 



toothed, involucres subsolitary axillary glabrous, glands with a very small 

 siuuately-lobed liinb, styles very short, cocci obtusely keeled glabrous, seeds 

 smooth. E. serpens, 8., JBngelm. mss. ; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 30. E. 

 Heyneaua, Spreng. Syst. iii. 791. ? E. Heyneana, Soiss. in DC. I. c. 35, in 

 part. E. orbiculata, Miquel Fl. Lid. Bat. i. 4'21. E. Wallichiana, Boiss. 

 w.v.v. E. thymifolia, Wall. Cat. 7710, in part. E. uniflora, Dalz. Sf Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 227. ? E. Chamsesyce, Itoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 473. 



BENGAL and BEHAB, J. D. H. # T. T., &c. ; at Benares, Madden. BANDA, 

 Edgeworth. The CONCAN, Law, Stocks. MADRAS, near the city, Gr. Thomson. 

 TENASSERIAI, Heifer. DJSTIUB. Java. 



Stems very slender and much disticbously branched, spreading in a whorl from the 

 root, 4-10 in. long, whitish, brittle. Leaves always small, coriaceous and opaque, 

 sometimes as broad as long, spreading at right angles, if toothed only at the broad 

 end, nerveless ; stipules minute, triangular, 2 -partite or laciuiately toothed. In- 

 volucres very numerous from the base to the tips of the stems and branches, minute, 

 rampanulate, very shortly pedieelled; bracts at the base of the pedicels subulate; 

 lobes triangular, acute, nearly entire ; glands very shortly stipitate. Capsule shortly 

 pedieelled, r \ T in. diam. Seeds bluish, when wet mucose. Very similar to E. 

 Chamcesycece, but with perfectly smooth seeds. It is certainly very near indeed to the 

 E. serpens, Kunth, of N. America and the West Indies, but differs in the minute 

 stipules and the more entire leaves. Roth describes the larger leaves as being only 

 1-1| line long, but the average in our specimen is 23 lines. As stated under the 

 following species, I suspect that Boissier's E. Heyneana is made up of Heyne's 

 specimen of this species and the North- West Indian ones of Thomson, &c., which I 

 have described as E. Clarkeana. 



Var. galioides ; more straggling, leaves j in. diam. E. galioides, Soiss. I. c. 36. 

 E. thymifolia, Wall. Cat. 7710 H, in part. Banks of the Irawaddy at Segaia, 

 Wallich. This is, I think, certainly referable to microphylla, and is hardly evea a 

 variety of it. 



20. E. Clarkeana, Hook. f. ; glabrous, stems filiform many prostrate 

 and spreading from an annual root rarely subsimple and erect, leaves 

 opposite - in. obliquely linear-oblong entire or toothed at the rounded 

 tip, involucres axillary chieHy towards the tips of lateral branches minute 

 glabrous, lobes lanceolate toothed longer than the glands which are wholly 

 or almost without a limb, cocci quite glabrous keeled, seeds obscurely trans- 

 versely rugose. E. granulata, Herb. Royle. E. Heyneana, Soiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 35, in part. 



NORTH-WEST INDIA, Royle; from Delhi, Clarice, westwards to Lahore, Edge- 

 worth, Thomson, &c. Sciis T D, Stocks. 



Stems very slender, crowded from the root, a span long and under ; branches, 

 divaricating, pale, rather leafy, often with a few scattered hairs towards the tips. 

 Leaves coriaceous, in typical specimens crowded towards the ends of short branchlets, 

 distichously spreading, base almost auricled on one side; petiole very short; stipules 

 rather large, setaceous from a broad toothed base. Involucres ^ in. long, campanu- 

 late. Styles very short. Capsule ^ in. broad. Seeds acutely 4-angled. 



I advance this as an undescribed species with great hesitation. It is undoubtedly 

 the " Pan jab, Lahore and Ferozepore" plant included under his E. Heyneana by 

 Boissier (who has named some of the specimens E. sanguinea, others E. Heyneana), 

 but I have seen no Decean specimens, and I doubt its being the plant of lleyne seen 

 by Boissier in the St. Petersburg Herbarium, and which I suppose is E. microphylla. 

 Nor do I find the white sub-3-lobed limb of the gland described by Boissier. It is 

 very near E. microphylla, differing in the long narrow leaves and locality, and more 

 closely resembles E. sangtiinea, Hochst. and Steud., of Abyssinia, but that plant has 

 a distinct limb to the glands and large reflexed styles cleft nearly to the base. It is 

 no doubt the Indian plant alluded to by Engelmann under E. prostrata (Torrey 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. Exped. 187) as identical with that species, which, however, differs 



