Euphorbia.) EUPHORBIACER. 415 
EUPHORBIA, L. 
Flowers monoecious, several together in calyx-like cup-shaped 
involucres which are 4-5-toothed, the teeth alternating with as many 
horizontal glands, the latter sometimes expanded into a leafy often 
coloured appendage. Male flowers pedicelled, without calyx, sup- 
ported by ciliate-jagged bractlets, or these sometimes obsolete, sur- 
rounding in several series the solitary central female flower, Fema 
calyx 3-6-lobed or wanting. Ovary 3-celled, with a solitary sus- 
pended ovule in each cell; styles 3, distinct or more or less connate, 
2-cleft. Capsule 3-coccous, dry. Seeds without spermaphore or 
arillusx—Herbs, shrubs or trees, succulent or fleshy, eee 
thorny and cactus-like, abounding in milky juice, with alte 
whorled or opposite, simple leaves. Stipules none or present. Bicwer 
heads usually arranged into spurious umbels, clusters or cymes 
X Flowers in dichotomous cymes or rarely solitary, above the 
scars of the fallen leaves or sepreesiie’s ; floral leaves 
+ Flower-heads sessile or said $0, webcaie or rarely 
most tern: 
A tuberons simple-stemmed shrub, the stem terete . EZ. sessiliflora. 
+ Flower-heads in Fives 3am dichotomous « cymes. : 
Branches flattened and winged-dilated, crenate-sinuate. . . E. epiphylloides. 
OO Armed with paired re stipulary thorns. 
+ Styles 2-cle 
Branches angular, 3- ecasonlly 4- or 5- thos aa the _— fleshy, 
sinuately re . B. antiquorum. 
¥ Sty es simple, thickened at 
oe rai or Rs pti rly png ae foes dala 
‘ed serrately in cane repand, 1 ngitudinal TOWS . ie eee 
Fencnlice sks short, fleshy tubercled 
X Cymes sessile or emaas clustered, terminal or in pte 
forks of the branch- whoris: ; che leaves none. 
Branches terete, —— eC; epree very small, linear . BE. Tirucalli. 
x X inal, rare with bright- 
es term 
a Cahite or Laps floral lea 
ere agar her baceous, long-petio 4 aes Sipae hs 
above the sears of the fallen leaves ; involucre shosily 
tnakiiate the lobes rotundate-ovate, pectinately fimbriate, 8 
glands transversely cenendh ovary glabrous; styles almost 
simple, very short, crimso 
Hap.—Pegu.—Fl. Feb. 
