294 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Pltyllanthus. 



A low or tall diffusely branched erect or decumbent herb (becoming perennial in 

 some soils, Roxb.) ; branches at the angles and often the margins of the leaves and 

 sepals minutely hispid. Leaves very variable in size, glaucous beneath ; stipular 

 lanceolate. Floivers -^ in. diam., or the males smaller, very shortly pedicelled ; fern, 

 perianth in fruit -^ in. diam. Sepals green, of the males orbicular ; fern, oblong. Disk 

 of male of glands ; of female narrow, entire, lobed. Filaments very shortly united, 

 anthers erect, didymous not apiculate. Styles with hooked arms. Fruit T \j in. diam., 

 echinate. Wight represents the filaments as wholly connate and the anthers as erect, 

 apiculate, which I do not find to be so. 



Var. HooJceri; taller and larger in all its parts, 1-1 J ft. high, stem terete with 

 simple long erect angled branches, filaments wholly connate. P. Hookeri, Muell. Arg. 

 in Linnaa 1. c., and in DC. I. c. 366. Khasia Mts., alt. 2-4000 ft., Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. 4805), J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Sect. VI. ETJPHYLLANTHUS (see p. 286). 

 * Stipules semisagittate or peltate. 



23. P. Griffith!!, Muell. Arg. in Linnceaxxxu. 27, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 384- ; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves scattered f-^ in. subsessile 

 elliptic or oblong acute or obtuse glaucous beneath, stipules peltate lacerate, 

 flowers long pedicelled axillary, filaments free or united in a long or short 

 column, anthers globose, styles very long connate to the middle arms long 

 very slender recurved, seeds smooth. 



KHASIA HILLS; at Mamloo, Griffith, Clarke, &c. (Kern Distrib. 4822). MUNNI- 

 POEE, Watt. 



Much branched, branches woody angled. Leaves hardly distichously imbricating 

 towards the tops of the branches, rather coriaceous, base acute, nerves 6-8 pair, dis- 

 tinct beneath. Malefl. -^ in. diam., pedicels capillary, sepals rounded; fern, larger, 

 pedicels \ in., sepals oblong reflexed in fruit. Disk of male of small glands, of fern, 

 annular lobed. Stamens recurved ; anthers globose. Ovary globose; styles 3 times 

 as long, arms capillary recurved. Capsule | in. diam., depressed globose, obscurely 

 lobed, smooth. There is some error in Mueller's description. The plant is not dioecious, 

 and the fern, pedicels are shorter than the leaves. The anthers when upon a very 

 elongate staminal column are, I think, imperfect. 

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24. P. parvifolius, Ham. in Don Prodr. 63 ; shrubby, nearly glabrous, 

 branches very slender, leaves - in. distichously imbricate sessile elliptic or 

 subcuneately obovate tip rounded glaucous beneath, stipules hastate, flowers 

 minute subsolitary axillary very shortly pedicelled, filaments free, styles 

 sessile short 2-partite arms slender, seeds smooth. Muell. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 385. P. juniperinus, Wall. Cat. 7901; Muell. in Linncea 

 xxxii. 28. P. prastervisus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea, and in DC. II. c. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Jamu and Kuinaon, alt. 5-6000 ft'., to Bhotan. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft., bark pale; ultimate branchlets capillary, short. Leaves mem- 

 branous; nerves 3-4 pair, very faint ; stipules very minute, subulate. Malefl. -^ in. 

 diam., pedicels rather longer; sepals rounded; fern, twice as large, subsessile or 

 longer pedicelled, sepals oblong. Disk of male of glands ; of fern, annular, crenate. 

 Filaments short, spreading; anthers didymous. Ovary globose, styles variable in 

 length. Capsule % in. diam., globose, obscurely lobed, crustaceous, smooth. Seeds 

 minutely mottled with brown. Wallich's 7901 A is from the Calcutta Garden, and 

 accords with those from the habitats cited above, but his 13 from Nepal has longer 

 acicular stipules on the branchlets. 



25. P. Roeperianus, Wall. Cat. 7904; a rigid shrub, branches 



