Euphorbia.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^. (J. D, Hooker.) 255 



A tree, 12-15 ft. ; branches 2-3 in. diam. Leaves deciduous, very shortly petioled, 

 glossy, base obtuse ; lateral nerves obsolete. Cymes of involucres inserted at the 

 scars of fallen leaves. Capsules deeply 3-lobed, of the size and shape of those of E. 

 nereifolia. Description from Kurz. The habit is that of the following section. I have 

 seen only dried flowerless branches. 



5. DlACANTHIUM (see p. 245). 



23. E. neriifolia, Linn. Hort. Cliff. 196 in part; a small erect fleshy 

 glabrous tree, branches jointed cylindric or obscurely 5-angled with short 

 sharp stipular thorns arising from thick tubercles, leaves subterminal 

 fleshy obovate oblong or subspathulately obovate acute, involucres in small 

 stout dichotornous short-peduiicled cymes from the sinuses, hemispheric 

 smooth, stylos connate high up undivided, cocci compressed glabrous. 

 DC. Plant. Grasses ii. t. 46; Puixs. hi DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 79, and FL 

 Orient, iv. 1090; Grah. Gat. Bomb. PL 178; Dalz. &[ Gibs. Bomb. FL 

 226 ; Brand. For. FL 439 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 416 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 

 216 ; Wall. Cat. 7689. E. ligularia, Eoxb. FL Ind. ii. 465 ; Ham. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. 285.Burm. Tlies. Zeyl. 96. Bumph. Herb. Amb. iv. 

 t. 40. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; common in rocky places ; cultivated in BENGAL and else- 

 where in native villages. Cultivated and probably wild also in BUEMA, Kurz. 

 Cultivated only in Ceylon. DISTEIB. Beluchistan, Malay Islands. 



A shrub or small tree, 15-20 ft. Branches f in. diam. and upwards, with the 

 subconfluent tubercles in 5 irregular rows. Leaves deciduous, 6-12 in. long, terminal 

 on the branches, waved, narrowed into a very short petiole ; stipular thorns solitary or 

 in pairs, ij- iu. long. Involucres yellowish, the lateral ones of the cymes shortly 

 thickly pedicelled, central sessile ; lobes large, erect, roundish, cordate, timbriate ; 

 glands transversely oblong ; bracteoles most abundant, fimbriate. Stigmas capitate. 

 Capsule about | in. broad, deeply 3-lobed. Kurz describes the involucres that are 

 in the forks of the cymes as sessile, and usually entirely male. I follow Boissier in 

 referring Koxburgh's E. ligularia to E. nereifolia, and his nereifolia to Nivulia. 



24. E. Nivulia, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 286 ; an erect fleshy 

 glabrous tree, branches subcylindric \vith pairs of sharp stipular spines 

 arising from low tubercles, leaves alternate linear- or obovate-oblong fleshy 

 glabrous tip rounded, involucres 3-nate forming small short-peduncled cymes 

 from above the leaf scars on the tubercles hemispheric smooth, styles connate 

 to the middle undivided, cocci compressed glabrous. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 79; Wight Ic. t. 1862 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 225; Brand For. FL 

 4,39 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 417 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 216 ; Wawra, Bot. It. 

 Pr. S. Cob. 45. E. nereifolia, Eoxb. FL Ind. ii. 467; E. varians, Haw. 

 Succ. PL 130; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 179. ? E. antiquorum, Wall. Cat. 

 7QSS.Skeede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 43. 



NOETH-WEST HIMALAYA ; on dry rocky hills. GTTZEBAT, the DECCAN PENIN- 

 SULA and SCIND, Wight, &c. PEGU and BUEMA, in dry forests, Kurz. DISTEIB. 

 Madagascar ? 



A large shrub or tree, 20-25 ft. ; branches whorled ; tubercles arranged in a spiral, 

 distant, conical, truncate. Leaves 6-12 in., deciduous, nerveless, midrib stout beneath. 

 Involucres 3 together in a short cyme with a minute serrulate bract at their base, 

 lateral peduncled 2-sexual, central sessile, male; lobes large, erect, ovate, fimbriate; 

 glands transversely oblong ; bracteoles most abundant, fimbriate. Stigmas capitate. 

 Capsule about 5- in. broad. Seeds smooth. 



25. E. antiquOrum, Linn. Hort. Cliff'. 196; an erect fleshy glabrous 

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