82 EUPHORBIACEM. [EUPHORBIA. 



at the apex, quite entire, villcms on both surfaces ; base narrow, 

 rounded or subcordate ; stipules minute, ciliolate. Involucres very 

 minute, axillary and on short leafy branchlets, subsessile, turbinate ; 

 glands usually without a limb. Capsule T \ in. in diam., cocci hir- 

 sute, not keeled ; styles very short, 2-fid. Seeds -fa in. long, 4-angled, 

 bluntly pointed, faintly pitted, testa mucous when moistened. 



Jumna ravines near Agra (Duthie) ; Chambal ravines near Etawah 

 (Duthie) ; Rohilkhand, Bundelkhand and Malwa (Edge worth). 

 DISTRIB. : Plains of Punjab and Sind, Chota Nagpur and in S. India ; 

 extending to Afghanistan, Arabia, Egypt and the Canary Islands. 

 The leaves are said to be often used as a pot-herb. 



15. E. microphylla, Heyne ex Roth Nov. PL Sp. 229 ; F. B. I. 

 F, 252 ; Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. PL 925 ; CooTce Fl. Bomb, ii, 570. 

 E. Chamsesyce, Willd.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 473. 



A subglabrous annual, or perennial (according to Roxburgh). Stems 

 many, prostrate, very slender, spreading from the root and dichoto- 

 mously branched, pale, glabrous, brittle. Leaves opposite, coriace- 

 ous, J-J in. long and about as broad, obliquely oblong rounded-oblong 

 or subquadrate, rounded truncate or retuse at the apex, entire or 

 toothed only at the broad end, margins often pink ; stipules minute, 

 triangular, 2-partite or laciniately toothed. Involucres axillary, 

 subsolitary, minute, very shortly stalked, broadly campanulate, 

 glabrous ; lobes triangular, apiculate ; glands very shortly stalked 

 and with a very small limb. Capsule glabrous, j\ in. in diam., ob- 

 tusely keeled ; styles short, deeply 2-fid. Seeds less than in. long- 

 obtusely 4-angled, blunt at the apex, pale-brown, smooth, mucous 

 when moistened. 



Bundelkhand (Edgeworth) ; Sub-Himalayan tracts of N. Oudh in the 

 districts of Gonda, Bahraich and of Gorakhpur (Duthie) ; on the 

 banks of the Ganges (Madden). DISTRIB. : Bengal, Behar, Konkan, 

 Madras, extending to Burma and Java. 



16. E. Clarkeana, Hook. f. F. B. I. v, 253 ; Coolte, Fl. Bomb. 

 ii 570. E. granulata, (Herb. Royle). E. Heyneana, Boiss. (in part). 



A glabrous annual. Stems many, 3-8 in. long, usually prostrate and 

 spreading. Leaves opposite, J-f in. long, very shortly stalked, dichoto- 

 mously spreading, coriaceous and glabrous, often crowded towards 

 the ends of short branchlets, obliquely linear-oblong, entire or toothed 

 at the rounded apex, glabrous, base almost auricled on one side ; 

 stipules rather large, setaceous from a broad toothed base. Involu- 



