tlta.'] cxxxv. ECPHORBIACEJI. (J. D. Hooker.) 417 



axillary 'Ii > or peduncled androgynous, male fl. few termiual minute, 

 brae" e or remote 1-fld. hispid many-toothed often bordered with 



' glun iiairs rather shorter than the capsules. A. lanceolata, Willd. 



8p. PI. iv. 524. A. Wightiana, Muell. Arg. II. c. A. hispida, Herb. 

 Wight and Tliwaites Enum, 271. A. ciliata & lanceolata, Herb. Heyne in 

 Wall. Cat. 7780. A. flexuosa, Herb. Wight. \ virginiana, Herb, Russell 

 in Wall. Cat. 7779 G. A. corchorifolia, Vahl mas. in Baill. Etudes Gen. 

 Euphorb. 443. A. boehmerioides, Miquel Fl. Ind. Sat. Suppl. 459. A. 

 albicans, floribunda, villosa & collina, Heyne mss. in Herb. Rottler. Wall. 

 Cat. 7778. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Mysore and the Circars southward, common, 

 Klein, Heyne, &c. BUKMA, at Melloon, Wallich. CEYLON, common. DISTEIB. 

 Sumatra, Java, &c. 



Annual, 6-18 in. high, usually branched from the base, flaccid or rather rigid, more 

 or less pubescent and with sometimes long deciduous hairs on the stem as in A. 

 alnifolia. Leaves very variable, 14 in., membranous; petiole shorter or longer 

 than the limb. Spikes 1-5 in. ; male fl. in a minute head concealed by the upper- 

 most bracts, or produced into a minute spike; bracts - in. diam., always 1-fld., 

 9-12-toothed. Capsule hispid, styles rather short, laciniate. Seeds globosely ovoid, 

 nearly smooth. 1 am very doubtful as to the name this species should bear; it is a 

 most variable plant, and 1 am sure that all the synonyms quoted above belong to it. 

 The three extreme forms are (1) a short robust state, with small elliptic leaves not 

 above 1 in. long with the blade longer than the petiole ; (2) a common form with 

 broad leaves and elongate long-peduncled lax-fld. spikes, and (3) an often more lanceo- 

 late-leaved form with shorter sessile dense-fld. spikes. The flowers and fruit are the 

 same in all. 



9. A. ciliata, ForsTc. Fl. JEg. Arab. 162; herbaceous, leaves long- 

 petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrate, spikes all axillary 

 sessile short androgynous, male ti. few minute terminal, bracts crowded 

 1-2-fld. longer than the capsules with many nerves ending in long subulate 

 hispid teeth. Muell. Arg. in Linnaa xxxiv. 44, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 ii. 873 ; Eoxb. Fl. 2nd. in.' 676; Wight fy Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. (1839) 

 111, t. 5 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. 'Bomb. Fl 228 ; Tliwaites Enum. 271 (eoccl. syn.}. 

 A. fimbriata, Schum. Beskr. 409 ; -Baill. Bee. Obs. Sot. i. 272. A. ciliata, 

 Herb. Heyne, and A. rubra, Herb. Wight, in Wall. Cat. 7781. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 3-6000 ft., from Kashmir to Garwhal. BANDA, Edge- 

 worth. The DECCAN PKNINSUT.A, from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, not un- 

 common. DISTRIB. Arabia, Tropical Africa. 



Annual, 1-2 ft., rather stout, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 2-3 in., sometimes 

 caudate-acuminate, base cuuoate or rounded ; petiole usually longer than the blade. 

 Spikes rarely 1 in. long ; bracts (like the calyx of a Labiate plant) hispid or glabrous, 

 pale, teeth as long as the limb. Ovary sparsely hispid. Capsule glabrous ; cocci 

 very thin, white, glabrous, twisted after deliisceuce. Seeds globosely ovoid, nearly 

 smooth. , 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



A. HISPIDA, Burm. Fl. Ind. 303, t, 61, f. 1 ; Muell. in DC Prodr. xv. ii. 815 

 (Ca turns spicifloru*, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 760), with very long spikes, minute bracts, 

 and very long styles, is a garden plant only in India. 



A. CYLINDRICA, Jloxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 628, is doubtfully referred by Mueller (in DC. 

 1. c. 8SO) to the Brazilian A. Poirttii, Spr. 



47. ADENOCHZ.2ENA, Baill. 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous or stellately tomentose. Leaves alternate, 



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