BENGAL PLANTS. ( Euphorbia. 
Branches stipular rps arising from thick, subconfluent 
tubercles arranged in ore or less regular rows; leaves 
noccaereie ee cae or subspathulate, acute...neriifolia. 
Branches with stipular thorns arising from low, distant 
tubercles, spirally arranged on the cylindric branches; leaves 
scattered, linear- or obovate-oblong, rounded at apex 
Nivulia. 
tBranches spreading, unarmed, cylindric, scattered or whorled or 
clustered ; mall, linear-oblong, or none; styles 
2 
leaves f 
-lobed, short, recurved ne eet 
ody, unarmed ; branches bare below; ren UVES 
persistent, the lower sbi green, the ya floral seer br vi 
coloured, crimson or occasionally white [p. 9 
QL] os ceeceeeee pulcherrima. 
“Annual with PER erect, ascending or prostrate pee and 
branches, ae throughout 
eaves alter 
ternate below si appieite above, or all alternate except the 
uppermost floral leaves : 
Floral me sorounding the involucres parti-coloured at their 
bases; gla f the inyolucre without any appendage; erect herbs 
with et pi a 
Leaves of stem alternate in the lower, opposite in the upper x part, 
ovate-oblong, acute, ess or obscurely mathe floral leaves 
arrower, green towards apex, pale near the base .....- genie 
eaves of stem all alternate, ovate-oblong, siunierepand pare 
leaves similar but opposite, green towards apex, scarlet, ¢ 
the base 
acai 
Floral leaves green :— 
eaves exstipulate, all sessile, linear-lanceolate, subacute, ¢ arr ’ 
floral leaves 2, shorter and broader = s of the involucre 
orned, without a petaloid appendage.................. d Oona 
Leaves stipulate, all long-petioled, ae ee r ovate or oblong, 
entire or repand, upper ei or lanceolate ; eames of the invo 
—— with a petaloid a ge... ..grami 5 
ll opposite, oblique or niente pee hb: ain ‘stipulate, or if 
ares _— the leaf attachments connected by a transverse. inter- 
petiolar line 
§Glan of the involucre with a prominent membranous, petaloid 
limb; erect or decumbent, branching herbs :-— 
{Flo 
leaves distichous, secund, imbricating ial spe; the 
involucres ; erect, dichotomously branching 
Glab: 
porpestee NS pit 
rous ; stipules small, fimbriate ; limb of ee in 
tire 
