Eupliorlia.~\ cxxxv. EUPHORBIACB^. (J. D. Hooker.) 265 



6000 ft.; also in the plains or rocky hills' from Oudh to the Panjab. DISTEIB. 

 Yunan. 



Stems 6-12 in., stout, often with proliferous shoots of very narrow acute leaves ; 

 stock as thick ns the thumb. Leaves -\ in. broad, base acute or rounded, quite 

 entire, upper or floral rarely oblong or ovate, nerves 3 very slender. Involucres % in. 

 diam., glabrous without and within ; lobes acute ; glands stipitate, peltate reniform 

 or semilunate and 2-horned, or transversely oblong, entire or irregularly toothed ; 

 bracteoles numerous. Styles connate below the middle. Capsule i in. diam , 

 long pedicelled, rather depressed. Seed mottled or not, ecarunculate. 



52. E. thyrsoidea, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 164; glabrous, tall, 

 etem grooved with many short branches from the axils upper with 6-10 

 twin 2-fid rays forming a thyrse, leaves rhombic-oblong from a narrow base 

 subacute remotely denticulate much veined beneath, of the sterile branches 

 narrowly linear, floral orbicular-ovate obtuse, involucres short lobes large 

 ciliate, styles rather long connate to the middle. 



NOETH-WEST HIMALAYA, Jacquemont. 



Stem 3 ft. Leaves 3 by 1 in., upper smaller, membranous. Thyrse terminal, 

 6-8 in. long, reddish in flower. Involucres turbinately hemispheric, lobes truncate 

 or retuse; glands with converging horns. Styles 2-lobed, tips thickened. Capsule 

 unknown. I have seen no specimens. Boissier, who places it in the same section as IE. 

 Rothiana, describes it as allied to IE. agraria, M. Bieb., of Asia Minor, and IE. iberica, 

 Boiss., of Persia, &c., and as being remarkable for the distinctly veined leaves. It seems 

 to have the denticulate leaves of IE. pilosa var. cornigera, and the sheets with very 

 narrow leaves of IE. prolifera. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



E. ANGUSTIFOLIA, Sam. in Don Prodr. 62 ; perennial, stem 1 foot erect branched 

 subvillous, umbels trifid, leaves scattered linear obtuse glabrous, involucres subsessile, 

 glands bicornute. Nepal, at Norcotera, Hamilton. Boissier (in DC. p. 177) suggests 

 this being IE. Rothiana, which is not a Nepal species and is usually glabrous. 



E. (Chamsesycese) HISPID A, Boiss. Cent. Eupkorb. 8, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 27; annual, softly hispid, stems decumbent or prostrate, leaves subsessile elliptic 

 obtuse tip sharply serrulate base rounded, the larger ^ in., involucres solitary forming 

 short leafy axillary racemes turbinate glabrous, throat with a white beard, lobes 

 ovate, glands transversely ovate as broad as their white or rosy obtusely 2-3-lobed 

 limb, styles short 2-fid, cocci sparsely hairy acutely keeled, seed white, transversely 

 tuberculately rugose. E. calliadena, lEngelm. mss. India, Wallich. n. 325, and 207 

 in Herb. Kew. Himalaya, Jacquemont ; Kashmir, at Pir Pundjal, Hugel. I find 

 no plant answering to these numbers in Kew Herbarium, nor do I find them cited in 

 Wallich's Herbarium. Boissier places it next to IE. coccinea. Can it be IE. lEmodi, 

 p. 250 ? 



E. (Chamsesyceae) NILAGHIRICA, Miquel Analect. Pot. iii. 17, and in Hohenack. 

 Herb. Ind. Or. No. 1128 ; perennial ?, much branched from the base, branches 8-12 in. 

 red-brown stout angled when dry leafy, leaves i- in. sessile coriaceous broadly 

 obliquely oblong obscurely crenulate tip rounded minutely toothed or not, nerves 

 very obscure, stipules subulate glabrous, involucres sessile and shortly pedicelled -^ in. 

 diam. glabrous lobes subulate longer than the oblong glands which have no limb, 

 capsule shortly pedicelled trigonously 3-lobed, cocci sharply keeled, styles very short, 



seeds smooth bare. E. sanguinea, 7 nilaghirica, Boiss. in DC. Prodr xv ii 35 



Nilghiri Mts., Metz. 



A doubtful plant, resembling some varieties of E. corrigioloides, but differing from 

 that in the less^ thick leaves, solitary involucres, larger capsules and shorter styles. 

 Boissier refers it to IE. sanguinea, Hochst, as var. nilagirica, but it is quite unlike 

 that plant. Engelmann (in Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. Survey, 187) refers it to IE. 

 incequilatera, Bonder (in Liunsea xxiii. 105), a Natal plant, referred as a variety 

 (natalensis) to sanguinea by Boissier. 



