Luphorbia.) EUPHORBIACER. 417 
arising singly or by pairs from the sinuses of the protuberances of 
the fallen leaves, the lateral heads very short and thick pedunceled, 
those in the forks sessile and usually entirely male ; bracts opposite, 
reniform, small ; involucre hemispherical, smooth, 5-lobed, the lobes 
roundish cordate, jaggedly fringed, the glands transversely reni- 
form-oblong ; ovary glabrous and smooth, the styles high up con- 
nate, thickened at the apex; capsules glabrous, deeply 3-lobed, the 
cocei compressed, about 8 lin. broad 
Hap.—Frequently cultivated in Burmese villages, and probably also wild— 
Fl. C.S. ; Fr. March-Apr. 
5. E, Nivulia, Ham ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 216 ; Brand. For. Fl, 
437.—Sha-soung—A tree (20—25+10—15+ 
obovate-oblong ; involuecre hemispherical, smooth, the lobes large, 
ovate, erect, fimbriate, the glands transversely oval; ovary glab- 
tous, the styles connate u » simple, somewhat thickened at 
the apex ; capsules glabrous, deeply 3-lobed, the lobes compressed, 
about 3-4 lin. long ; seeds smoot 
Has.—Frequent, especially along choungs, in the dry and drier upper mixed 
— of the Prome and Pegu Yomah.—Fl. Fr. HS.—l.—SS.=CaS. SiS. 
REMaRKs.—Wood very light, coarse-fibrous and loose-grained, yellowish, 
while fresh quite milky. ‘Yields a sort of Euphorbium. 
as thick as aswan-quill or the little finger, the upper ones usually 
whorled ; bark dark olive-brown, cracked ; leaves alternate, linear or 
linear-cuneate, sessile, smooth, fleshy, up to 3 in. long ; flower-heads 
sessile or nearly so, yellowish white, chiefly female, rarely herma- 
phrodite, crowded at the ends of the branchlets and in the forks of 
the branch-whorls ; involucre bell-shaped, smooth, pubescent inside, 
the lobes short, ovate, hairy, the glands broadly kidney-shaped ; 
ovary woolly, the styles recurved and to near the base 2-cleft, glan- 
dular-thickened at the apex; capsules deeply 3-lobed, villous-dark- 
brown, the lobes compressed, nearly 3 lin. long. 
VOL. II, 2c 
