Haz.—Only cultivated around khyoungs, ete., in villages, especially in the 
Prome district.—Fl. R.S. _ 
Remarks.— Wood said to be strong and durable, white, tolerably close- 
grained, rather hard. The copious milky juice yields a sort of Euphorbium. 
ulcherrima, Willd.—A simple-stemmed or slightly 
rous, penninerved, somewhat glaucous beneath, the floral leaves 
opposite, crimson or white, somewhat shorter petioled and often 
narrower, but otherwise conform to the stem-leaves ; flower-heads 
crimson, yellow or green, short-peduncled, arranged in lax, glabrous 
c -like cymes at the end of the branchlets; involucre large, 
bell-shaped, short-hairy within, glabrous outside, the lobes broad, 
very short, palmatifid, with a solitary, transversely wrinkled, fleshy 
gland; ovary smooth, the styles connate at the base, 2-cleft; cap- 
sules glabrous, 3-coccous and 3-lobed, the size of a small cherry, 
the cocci with a somewhat fleshy epicarp, keeled on the back ; seeds 
smooth, opaque. 
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418 EUPHORBIACES. | Euphorbia, — 
anges yy Sd cultivated in native gardens and villages, especially around 
khyoungs.— 
PEDILANTHES, Neck. 
more or less connate. Capsules dry, 8-coccous. Seeds without — 
spermap ore.—Shrubs, usually fleshy, with alternate simple leaves. 
Stipules gland-like or none. Flower-heads in axillary and term!- 
nal cymes. , 
1. P. tithymaloides, Poit.—An evergreen, low, simple- 
] ple stemmed — 
or sparingly branched, rather fleshy shrub, all parts glabrous ; leaves 
ovate, somewhat oblique, rounded at the base, almost sessile, entire, 
fleshy, 1-2 in. long, glabrous, the midrib keel-like prominent x“ 
beneath ; flower-heads crimson, slipper-shaped, about } in. long, — 
glabrous, on a slender about a lin. long peduncles, arranged in much- 
‘ , s furnished with diminutive — 
floral leaves; involuere glabrous, the lobes ciliolate ; styles shortly 
seared, crowded, short, terminal 
