256 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Euphov^nk. 



tree, branches terete or obscurely 3-6-angled, branchlets with 3 

 sinuate wings and a pair of sharp stipnlar thorns in the sinuse.s, leaved lew 

 small from the sides of the wings fleshy obovate-oblong tip voin 

 volurres 3-nate forming short-peduiicled cymes in the sinuses, s1 



'1, cocci compressed glabrous. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 81 ; V/ 

 J'7. hut. ii. 468; Grali. Cat. Bomb. PI. 179 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. 

 Brand, far. Fl. 438; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 416; Beddome For^/rr'., Wan. 

 217; Wwltt Jr. t. 897. P E. arborescens, Eoxb. I. c.BJieede Hort, Mat. ii. 

 t. 42. Euphorb., Wall. Cat. 7704 A, C. 



Throughout the hotter parts of INDIA and CEYLON, in dry places, asccndiiu io 

 2000 ft. ; also cultivated for hedges. 



A polymorphous plant, Wight ; attaining 25 ft., Kurz.; branches 5-6 iu. broad, 

 wings repand-sinuate. Leaves few, small, deciduous, almost nerveless, shortly 

 petioled. Cy mes rarely compound ; bracts opposite, "obovate" (Kurz). Involucres 

 hemispherical, nearly ^ in. broad, yellow, the lateral ones on the cyme shortly thickly 

 pedicelled, the central sessile, female ; bracteoles abundant, fimbriate. Fruit % in. 

 diam. Wight refers the plant he figures of this species to a var. polygona, and repre- 

 sents the bracts as triangular ovate and acute, and the cymes as lax with long pedun- 

 cles and pedicels. 



26. E. tortilis, Sot tier, ex Wight Ic. t. 898 ; an erect fleshy glabrous 

 shrub, branches broad jointed 3-4- angled and spirally twisted, angles com- 

 pressed lobulate with a pair of stout stipular spines on the lobes, leaves ?, 

 involucres 3-nate very shortly stoutly peduncled forming small clusters in 

 the sinuses campanulate lobes glabrous, styles very short connate at the 

 base, cocci not compressed. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 81 ; Brand. For 

 Fl. 439. Euphorb. Wall. Cat. 7704 B. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Madras and the Coromandel coast. CEYLON, Thwaites. 



A shrub ; branches 2-3 in. broad ; spines in. long. Leaves not described. 

 Cymes of 3 subsessile green involucres each about in. diam.; bracts minute ovate, 

 acute. Involucre green with fimbriate lobes and large glands; bracteoles very abundant, 

 fimbriate. Styles subspathulate, emarginate. Fruit % in. diam. ; cocci keeled. 

 Wight's figure of this differs from that of IE. antiquorum in the short crowded cymes, 

 glabrous involucral lobes, rounded cocci, and stouter 2-lobed styles. As with all 

 the other species of this section, careful comparison of these characters is much 

 wanted. Thwaites suggests its being a var. of E. antiquorum. 



27. E. trig-ona, Haworth Succ. PL 127; an erect glabrous fleshy 

 shrub, branches 3-5- winged, sinus between the wings acute, wings lobulate 

 with one or two pairs of stout stipular spines on the lobes, leaves from the 

 sides of the wings petioled obovate-spathulate fleshy, tips rounded or 

 mucronate, cymes solitary in the sinuses very shortly peduncled, involucres 

 3 hemispheric, lobes cuneiform fimbriate, styles connate below undivided, cocci 

 compressed glabroiis. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 82 ; Brand. For. FL 438 ; 

 Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 468 ; Wight Ic. t. 1863. E. antiquorum, var. ft, Linn. Sp. 

 PL 646. E. Cattimandoo, W. Elliot in Wight Ic. t. 1993 ; Boiss. I. c. 83 ; 

 Brandts, 1. c. 



Dry rocky hills in the DECCAN, and probably other parts of India. ANDAMAN 

 ISLANDS, Kurz. DISTRIB. Moluccas. 



The following description is from Roxburgh of specimens brought from the Mo- 

 luccas : Stem 6-7 ft.., branches ascending, usually 3-gonous. I/eaves 1-2 by 7,- ^ '" 

 solitary from between the spines, deep green above, paler beneath. Cymes from 

 the sinuses generally of 3 involucres, the central sessile with 5 fascicles of male 11. 

 only ; lateral pedicelled with one female and five male 11. Incolucral lobes rounded, 

 jagged ; scales (brocteolcft) innm.-rous, multih'd. tityles combined to the middle. 



Wight remarks of his JJ. Cattimandco, that it ia so like E. frigona that he would 



