416 EUPHORBIACER. [ Euphorbia. 
2. E, epiphylloides, Kz.—A leaf-shedding tree (12—154+4—8 
+1—2), fleshy, unarmed, all parts glabrous, the branches complan- 
ate and thick-winged, crenate-sinuate, terete, and narrowed at the 
joints ; stipules minute, if any ; leaves oboval, very shortly petioled, 
obtuse at the base, rounded or almost retuse at the apex, glabrous, 
Has.—Along the rocky coast of Escape Bay, South Andaman.—FI. Fr. 
May.—l.—SS.—Metam. 
horns ; leaves appearing in H.S., few an small, obovate-oblong, 
short-petioled, tapering at the base, entire, blunt or rounded at the — 
apex, fleshy, glabrous, almost nerveless ; flower-heads yellowish, 
the lateral ones on a rather short and thick peduncle, the cent 
one female and sessile in the forks, forming a short-peduncled, — 
solitary or by pairs in the sinuses of the crenatures ; bracts 2, 
obovate, rather conspicuous, opposite ; involucre broadly hemi- 
Has.—Frequent in the dry and upper mixed forests all over Burma, from 
Ava and Pegu down to Arracan and the Andamans, up to 2,000 ft. elevation. 
Often cultivated for hedges, ete.—Fl. Feb.-March.—].—SS.—=SiS. CaS. 
Remarxks.—The copious milky juice of this and the following arboreous 
species, hardens into Euphorbium. 
