284 cxxxv. EUPHORBiACE^). (J. D. Hooker.) [AndracJine. 



leaves petioled ovate or oblong obtuse or mucronate softly hairy beneath, 

 sepals connate below obovate, petals spathulate keeled, disk-glands mem- 

 branous 2-partite. Brand. For. Fl. 456 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timh. 349. 

 A. Decaisneana, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 577. Leptopus cordifolius, 

 Dcsne. in Jacquem. Toy. Sot. 155, t. 156. Phyllanthus cordifolius, Wall. 

 Cat. 7913, and 7930 in part. P. Hoff meisteri, Klotzsch in Bot. Eeise Pr. 

 Waldem. 117, t. 24. P. glauca, Wall. Cat. 7927 B, in part. Wall. Cat. 

 7929. 



CENTRAL and WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft, from Nepal 

 Wallich, westwards to Murree, Fleming. DISTRTB. Afghanistan. 



A small shrub ; branches slender. Leares 1-2 in., pale when dry, nerves very 

 slender ; petiole i-f in. Flowers f in. diam. ; pedicels capillary, -! in. Calyx 

 enlarged in fruit, acute. Fruit i in. diam., depressed globose. Seeds broadly trigonous, 

 dorsally rounded. The leaves are very variable, rarely cordate, and I suspect that it 

 may prove a form of A. cMnensis, Bunge. There is no No. 7929 in Wallich's printed 

 List. In his Herbarium in the Linn. Soc. Rooms, that number is written in pencil 

 on a sheet of this plant, which has also the misplaced ticket of 7930 (Phyllanthus 

 tetrandrns'). 



2. A. telephioides, Linn. Sp. PL 1014; prostrate, glabrous, glau- 

 cous, leaves sessile elliptic or obovate subacute, sepals free rounded or 

 rhombic, petals lanceolate, disk-glands membranous 2-lobed. Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 235 ; Soiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1138 ; Sibthorp Fl. Grcec. 

 x. t. 953 ; Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. v. t. 153. A. rotundifolia, C. A. Meyer in 

 EicJiw. PL Carp. 18, t. 20. 



The PANJAB ; on the Salt Bange, Fleming ; near the Jhelum, Aitchison. DISTRIB. 

 Afghanistan and westwards to Spain and the Cape de Verd Islands. 



Root woody ; stems very many, 8-12 in., slender, leafy, flowering throughout their 

 length. Leaves -} in. , coriaceous, nerves obscure. Flowers -^ in. diam., pedicels 

 usually shorter than the leaves. Capsules depressed globose, T V-f in. diam. 



3. A. aspera, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 884; prostrate, glaucous and 

 papillosely pubescent, leaves orbicular-cordate or broadly reniform rounded 

 or retuse, sepals free lanceolate obtuse ciliolate, petals rhombic subentire, 

 disk-glands fleshy, of the male peltate incised. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 236; ' Soiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1138. 



SCIND, Stocks. DISTRIB., Persia, Arabia, Trop. Africa. 



A small undershrub, with woody root, short rootstock, and very many filiform 

 prostrate stems 6-10 in. long, rarely nearly glabrous, pale green when dry. Leaves 

 - in. broad, rather membranous, upper "sessile ; petiole of lower very slender, as 

 long as the blade. Flowers -^ in. diam. j pedicel as long as the petiole. Fruit % in. 

 diam., membranous. 



4. A. fruticosa, Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 484 ; sparsely hairy, 

 branches terete, leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate at both ends, ovary 

 hispid. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 235. 



FERAE ; at Larut, King's Collector. DISTRIB. Timor-Laut, Java. 



A small erect shrub, 1-2 ft., every where except the leaves above sparsely pubescent 

 with long appressed hairs; branches slender, divaricate. Leaves 2-3 in., very thin, 

 ptile green ; nerves 3 5 pair, extremely slender, ascending; stipules small, lanceolate, 

 deciduous. Maiefl. T Vi n - diam.; pedicel a little longer, hairy ; bracts at the axils 

 minute ; sepals membranous, obtuse, hairy at the back, sometimes subspathulate; petals 

 spathulately obovate, 1-nerved ; disk -glands rather fleshy, linear, in pairs opposite the 

 sepals ; filaments narrowed from the base upwards ; pistillode not half their length. 

 Fem.fl. 5-5 in. diam. ; sepals unequal, hairy on both surfaces. Capsule in. diam. ; 



