78 EUPHORBIACE&. [EUPHOKBIA. 



6. E. dracunculoides. Lamk. Encyd. Method, ii, 428 ; Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. ii, 474 ; F. B. I. v, Z62 ; Watt E. D. ; Prain Beng. PI 924 ; 

 Cooke Fl Bomb, ii, 564. 



A glabrous dichotomously much -branched annual. Stems many, erect, 

 leafy, 12-18 in. high. Leaves sessile, 1J-2J in. long, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, subacute ; base acute, rarely rounded or subcordate ; 

 floral leaves shorter, broader at the base. Involucres subsessile, 

 .solitary, broadly campanulate, T \j in. across, glabrous outside, hairy 

 within ; lobes ovate, ciliolate ; glands semi-lunats. Filaments pubes- 

 cent. Capsules smooth, J--J in. diam. ; styles free to the base, shortly 

 .2-fld. Seeds J in. long, ellipsoid, rounded at the base, grooved on one 

 side and with a strophiole at the oblique depressed apex ; testa whitish, 

 leprous, rugose or tuberculate. 



N. W. India (Royle), Moradabad ^T. Thomson), Sub-Himalayan tracts 

 in Rohilkhand and N. Oudh (Duthie), Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell). 

 Usually in cultivated ground. Flowers April to June. DISTRIB. : 

 Plains of Punjab and Bengal, and southwards to Kanara and Coro- 

 mandel ; also in Arabia and Trop. Africa. 



7. E. Rothiana, Spreng. Syst. Hi, 796 ; F. B. I. v, 263 ; Cooke 

 Fl. Bomb, ii, 564. E. glauca, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 473. 



An erect glaucous annual or perennial herb. Stem 1-2 ft. high, glab- 

 rous, terete, copiously branched above, often tinged with red ; branches 

 slender, some in whorls from the upper axils, others in a whorled 

 umbellate crown from the top of the stem, all again dichotomously 

 branched. Leaves of the stem alternate, sessile, 2-4J in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, mucronulate, entire, glabrous, 

 tapering to the base ; leaves beneath the whorled crown of branches 

 4, sessile, radiating, broader than those of the stem ; floral leaves 

 (bracts) beneath the dichotomous forks opposite, broadly ovate or 

 orbicular, acute, mucronate, rounded at the base. Involucres soli- 

 tary in the upper axils and terminal, -^ in. across, campanulate, 

 glabrous or hairy outside, villous within ; pedicels short ; lobes sub- 

 quadrate, ciliate ; glands crescent-shaped. Capsules about J in. in 

 diam., glabrous ; styles -fa in. long, free almost to the base, 2- fid. at 

 the apex. Seeds J-J in. long, semicylindric, rounded at the base, 

 grooved on one side and with a fleshy rugulose strophiole at the 

 oblique depressed apex, smooth, bluish -grey when ripe. 



Bundelkhand 'on black soil (Edgeworth). DISTRIB. : Hills of Central 

 and Southern India and in the Bombay Presidency ; also in Ceylon. 



