Euphorbia."] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 257 



not have introduced it into his Icones, but for the gum it yields. His description of 

 it -differs from trigona only in the branches being 5-angled ; but the figure further 

 differs in the more remote protuberance of the branches, in the much smaller in- 

 volucres, in the few stamens, and in the involucral lobes though fimbriate not being 

 further cleft into lobes ; he further figures the ovary of trigona as furnished with 

 a cleft calyculus, which is noteworthy. The number of stamens no doubt varies, for 

 Wight observes that in Cattimandoo sometimes the outer involucres of the cyme are 

 male, sometimes the inner, and that trigona occasionally produces branches with 

 Solitary male involucres. 



28. E. Royleana, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 83; an erect glabrous 

 fleshy shrub, branches with 5-7 broad flat faces and as many short thick- 

 obtuse undulate not lobulate wings with a pair of stipular thorns on their 

 margins, leaves not described, involucres 3-4 in a contracted sessile 

 cyme hemispheric, lobes cuneate fimbriate, styles free to the base ?, cocci 

 compressed glabrous. Brand. For. Fl. 438 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 368. 

 E. pentagpna, Royle III. 329, t. 82, f. 1 (not of Haivorth). 



OUTER HIMALAYA, in dry hilly tracts from Kumaon to the Jhelum, Soyle, Brandis, 

 ascending to 6000 ft. SALT RANGE, Aitchison. 



Attains 16 ft. iu height and a girth of 6 ft. Branches in Royle's figure 3 inches 

 in diameter, with flat spaces between the wings. Involucres % in. diam., yellow-green, 

 hemispheric. Capsules f in. diam. Royle's figure is unsatisfactory as to the styles. 

 Brandis says it is probably the species of the dry hills near Jeypur which furnishes a 

 great part of the fuel of that city. Boissier, who has never seen this, points out that 

 the only character whereby Royle's figure enables him to distinguish it from Wight's 

 plate of Cattimandoo, which species also he has not seen, are the broad flat spaces between 

 the wings. 



6. BHIZANTHIUM (see p. 245). 



29. E. sessiliflora, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 471 : a dwarf glabrous fleshy 

 shrub or herb, root large tuberous, stem erect terete, leaves terminal deci- 

 duous subsessile oblong or ovate- or obovate-oblong obtuse quite entire, 

 involucres 1-3 sessile at the scars of fallen leaves minute campanulate, lobes 

 fimbriate, styles short almost free undivided. Soiss. in DC. Prodr xv ii 

 76 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 415. 



PEGU, Caret/, Kurz. 



Root an irregular tuber, as large as a large potato ; stem 1 ft., simple. Leaves 

 1-3 in., smooth, fleshy, nearly nerveless ; stipular glands minute. Involucres reddish, 

 solitary or the two lateral rudimentary; lobes rounded-ovate, pectinate; glands 

 transversely oblong. Ovary glabrous ; styles crimson. 



30. E. iusiformis. Ham. in Don Prodr. 62; a dwarf glabrous herb 

 with a long stout cylindric rootstock, leaves all radical 6-8 in. subsessile 

 obovate or oblanceolate, cymes from the crown of the rootstock after the 

 leaves very variable in length dichotomous, bracts ovate or the upper or 

 all truncate and 3 -fid, involucres subsessile or in long or short peduncles 

 hemispheric, styles combined to the middle, cocci compressed. Soiss. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 93. E. acaulis, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 472; Boiss. 1. c.- 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 179 ; Dalz. - Gibs. Bomb. FL 226 E nana Eoyle 

 III. 329, t. 82, f. 2 ; Soiss. I. c. 94; Wall. Cat. 7703. 



T JJOPICAL HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, Eoi/le Nepal, Hamilton ; Oudh, Thomson 

 BENGAL, Roxburgh. The CONCAN, on the Bababoodau Hills, Graham, &c. 



EootstocTc 6-10 in. long, buried in the ground, 1} in. or less in diam., brown, 

 smooth except at the scarred apex. Leaves acute or obtuse, fleshy, nerveless. Cymes 

 6 iu. long and less, with long peduncled involucres or very short in nana, with short 

 peduncles of the involucres. Involucres about 5 in. dram., greenish; lobes spnthulate 



