260 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Eupltorlia. 



several rays being sometimes formed. Wallich's specimens have very slender much- 

 branched sterns, a foot long, with rather membranous black leaves ; Strachey's have 

 stout branches, 1-4 in., and coriaceous leaves sometimes secund on prostrate floworless 

 branches; Sikkim ones are intermediate between the above, and have often ciliut> 

 leaves ; Griffith's are very small indeed, with stout simple stems less than an inch 

 high, and leaves $- in. long. 



Var. ? radiata ; leafing stems very many, 3 in. erect pubescent, flowering longer 

 simple nearly leafless with 3-5 long-peduncled umbels, leaves | in. elliptic-oblong 

 glabrous. Garwhal, at Kamni, Strach. # Wint. (Euphorb. n. 16). A solitary 

 specimen without fruit. 



37. E. tibetica, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 114; quite glabrous, 

 stems many suberect or straggling from the woody rootstock, cauline leaves 

 |-f in. alternate sessile linear- or subcuneate- or spathulate-oblong tip 

 rounded or truncate retuse or toothed, floral opposite and involucral similar, 

 involucres axillary and in the forks very short turbinate glabrous within, 

 lobes small ovate, styles short stout, capsule and seeds quite smooth. 



WESTERN TIBET; Laptal (North of Kuinaon), alt. 15,000 ft., Stracfiey fy Winter- 

 lottom (No. 6); Piti, alt. 13,000 ft., Thomson; Karakoram, alt. 10,700 ft., Clarice. 

 DISTBIB. Kashgar. 



JRootstock sometimes as long and thick as the middle finger. Stems 6-12 in., 

 dichotomously branched, and foliage pale rather succulent. Leaves | in. diam. or 

 less, sometimes with the sides quite parallel, toothing of tips very variable. In- 

 volucres T ^ in. broad ; glands large, transversely oblong ; lobes entire, lobulate or 

 toothed (ciliate, Boissier). Capsule shortly stipitate (pedicel long, Boissier), -i in. 

 diam., pale green, furrows not deep between the oblong cocci. Seeds oblong -obovoid, 

 caruncle rather large conic. 



38. E. Thomsoniana, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 113 ; quite glabrous, 

 stem simple sparingly leafy, leaves f-l| in. sessile elliptic or ovate obtuse 

 or subacute, nerves few obscure ascending, floral broader, involucral 2 sub- 

 orbicular, involucres campanulate glabrous without, with 4 hairy lines 

 within, lobes short fimbriate, styles long slender, capsules large oblong and 

 seeds smooth. 



WESTEEN TIBET ; Leh, alt. 10-12,000 ft., Thomson ; Gilgit, Gill. 



Stems a foot high from a stout perennial stock, unbranched, scaly at the base. 

 Leaves f | in. broad, coriaceous, dull yellow when dry, upper and under surfaces alike. 

 Rays 3-6, longer than the floral leaves. Involucres in. broad; lobes small; glands 

 substipitate, transversely oblong. Capsule shortly stipitate, | in. long, in. diam. ; 

 cocci not separate by a deep sulcus, oblong. Seed pale oblong, -i in. long, quite smooth; 

 caruncle small, peltate. A very distinct species. 



** Perennial herbs. Capsules usually zvarted. Seeds smooth. (Capsule 

 often smooth in E. pilosa and khasiana.) 



39. E. pilosa, Linn. Sp. PL 460 ; tall, glabrous or pubescent, stems 

 erect branched above, leaves alternate sessile or subsessile membranous 

 from linear to oblong acute or obtuse, nerves slender spreading, involucral 

 rounded or broadly ovate and acute, rays long or short, involucres campauu- 

 late villous within, styles long slender connate below the middle, capsule 

 small smooth or warted glabrous or puberulous, seeds smooth. Boiss. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 116, and Fl. Orient, iv. 1096; Reiclib. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 v. t. 138, 139, and Ic. Grit. ii. t. 145. E. procera, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. 

 378; Reichb. Cent. ii. t. 270. Euphorb. No. 7,9, 10, Herb. Strachey $ 

 Winterbottom. 



WESTEEN HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal westward to Murree. DISTEIB. Soongaria, 

 Eastern Sibe ia and westward to the Atlantic. 



