264 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Euphorbi<a\ 



Wawra Bot. It. Pr. S. Cob. 44. E. glauca, Boxb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 473. ? E. 

 segetalis, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 179 (not of Willd.). E. oreophila, Miqiie/ 

 Analect. Bot. in. 17; Boiss 1. c. E. Wightiana, Boiss. Gent. JSuphorb. '.17. 

 }]. oraminea, Kcenig in Serb. Vind. E. divergens, Klotzsch in Beise Pr. 

 U'ald, Bot. t. 18. E. Iseta, Heyne in Eotli Nov. Sp. 230. E. lanceolaria, 

 Herb. Heyne, and E. linifolia, Herb. Russell, Wall. Cat. 7691. Tithymalus 

 divergent-, Klotzscli I. c. 114. 



Hills of CENTEAL INDIA and the DECCAN PENINSULA, from Banda, Edgeworth, 

 southwards, alt. 4-6000 ft. CEYLON ; common up to 7000 ft., Thwaites. 



Stems usually stout, sometimes profusely dichotomously branched above, the 

 branches bearing pairs of involucral leaves. Leaves 2-5 by 3 in., coriaceous or 

 membranous, sometimes acuminate, nerves diverging, very obscure, floral and invo- 

 lucral shorter, very variable. Says few or many. Involucres -^ in. diam., glabrous 

 or hairy without, villous within ; lobes variable, short ; bracteoles very few. fila- 

 ments hairy. Capsule -*- in. diam., glabrous or hairy, quite smooth ; pedicels long 

 or short, deeply lobed. Seeds subglobose pale and imperfect, or broadly oblong or 

 obovoid, brown-black or bluish, quite smooth; caruncle very small. Boissier dis- 

 tinguishes E. oreophila from Mothiana by being taller, with leaves narrower at the 

 base, umbels with more rays, involucral lobes truncate, and glabrous capsules, none 

 of which characters appear to me to hold good, the organs to which they refer being 

 extremely variable. The infertile seeds which occur in most of the specimens are 

 larger than the fertile, and more globose, with no perceptible caruncle. This species 

 is described as annual, and so are many specimens, but others appear as if from a 

 perennial stock. Klotzsch's E. divergens is stated to be a native of the Himalaya, 

 where E. Rothiana has not been found by others. I follow Boissier in referring it 

 to the latter species. 



Var. , pubescens, Boiss. 1. c. ; branchlets and leaves more or less pubescent. 

 Canara, near Mercara, Hohenaclcer, PI. Ind. Or. No. 807. 



** Perennials (see also 49. E. Rothiana). 



50. E. kanaorica, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 154; perennial, quite 

 glabrous, stems very many from the rootstock decumbent much branched 

 naked below, leaves - in. alternate coriaceous obovate-spathulate, floral 

 opposite similar, involucres in the axils of 2 opposite orbicular leaves shortly 

 pedicelled campanulate glabrous within, lobes triangular small, glands large 

 2-cornute, styles quite free 2-fid at the very tips only, capsule smooth, seeds 

 oblong smooth. 



WESTEEN HIMALAYA; Kunawar on the ascent to the Runang Pass, alt. 15,000 ft. ? 

 Thomson. 



Eootstocli slender ? Stems 6-10 in., flaccid, flexuous. Leaves yellowish when 

 dry, always narrowed at the base except the upper involucral ; costa and nerves in- 

 visible. Involucres -J^ in. diam. Capsules % in. diam., pale. Seeds exactly as in 

 E. Maddeni. This a good deal resembles a very small E. Maddeni, but it has certainly 

 a perennial stock, the leaves are coriaceous or fleshy, the styles short quite free and 

 hardly 2-fid. 



51. E. prolifera. Ham. in Don Prodr. 62 ; quite glabrous, stems 

 many from a stout rootstock, erect subsimple, leaves 1-3 in. very coriaceous 

 narrow linear to linear-oblong or -spathulate obtuse or acute, floral 4 elliptic 

 obtuse, involucral 2-4 rounded, involucres shortly campanulate lobes tri- 

 angular fimbriate glands peltate very variable, styles short stout revolute 

 deeply 2-fid, capsule broad smooth, seeds globose smooth. E. nepalensis, 

 Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 157. E. cuneifolia, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 471 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 7701. Euphorb., Wall. Cat. 7698, 7699. 



CENTEAL and WESTEEN HIMALAYA; from Nepal to Kashmir, ascending to 



