EtiphorbiacecB.] 
CHINA. 
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We have here added a specific character, M. de Jussieu having mentioned three other species from the 
Mauritius. The present one was long involved in the greatest obscurity, on account of the synonyms asso- 
ciated with it by Burmann. There does not appear to be any plant described by Roxburgh or Willdenow to 
which it is referable : in habit it approaches to Groton oblongifolium, Roxb. FI. Ind. 3. p. 85. 
1. Acalypha Indica. Linn. — Roxb. FI. Ind. 3. p. 675. 
2. Acalypha Chinensis ; caulibu? piibescentibus herbaceis, foliis sublonge petiolatis rhom- 
beo-ovatis crenatisj spicis androgynis axillaribus petiolum asquantibus vel superantibus, 
florum foemineorum fasciculis solitariis binisve bracteatis, masculis terminalibus in spicam 
pedicellatam capitatam vel longiusculam dispositis, bracteis foemineis cordatis acuminatis 
crenatis, fructu hispido. A. Chinensis. Roxb. FI. Ind. 3. p. 677 ? 
Roxburgh ascribes to his plant, so far as we can collect from the description, a single cluster of female flowers 
and a small capitulum of male ones from a solitary bractea : some of the spikes on the specimens before us 
agree with that character, but others show two bracteas, and in one, where the inflorescence is almost ter- 
minal, the male flowers form a slender spike of about half an inch in length. 
3. Acalypha Awjott/a. Willd. — Urtica pilosa. Lour. FI. Coch. 2. p. 682. Roxb. FI. Ind. 3. 
p. 676 (non Cav. nec Willd.) — pubescens. A. flexuosa. Herb. Wight, olim. 
We have only received var. /3 from Canton. It is merely distinguished from the type of the species by 
its stems not being hispid with spreading hairs, but simply pubescent. We possess both from the Peninsula 
of India. 
1 . Stillingia seSj/era. Mich. — Croton sebiferum. Linn. — Sapium sebiferum. Roxb. FI. 
Ind. 3. p. 693. — Triodica Sinensis. Lour. FI. Coch. 2. p. 749. 
1. Euphorbia thymifolia. Linn. — Roxb. FI. Ind. 2. p. 473. 
Involucri glandules 4, pallidse, orbiculares, disciformes, processubus concoloribus suffulcientibus minutis inter 
se subsequalibus duplo minores : fructus parce strigosi, parvi : semina ecarunculata, brunnea, obtuse tetra- 
gona, transverse subundulata. — The flowers occur several together in the axils, but they are very shortly 
peduncled, often almost sessile. This, with the following, belongs to Dr. Roeper’s first section, characterised 
by the seeds destitute of a carunculus, and the glands of the involucre resting on one side of a more 
or less membranaceous scale or process, which he properly suggests ought to be regarded as analogous to 
stipules, they only occurring in the species provided with stipules. 
2. Euphorbia pilulifera. Linn. — E. hirta. Linn. ? Hook, et Arn. supr. p. 95. 
Involucri glandule minutse, sanguinem, orbiculares, processubus ejusdem fere colons ac substantiae et vix 
glandula majoribus suffultae : fructus trigoni, strigoso-pilosi : semina brunnea, tetragona, leviter rugulosa, 
caruncula arillari destituta. — It is n. 100, a, b, c, of Mr. Vachell’s collection. 
3. Euphorbia Vachellii ; annua, erecta, glabra, glauca, foliis oppositis brevissime petiolatis 
linearibus acutis argute serrulatis, inflorescentia axillari fasciculata laxiuscula, involucri 
glandulis 4 minutis orbicularibus concaviusculis processubus petaloideis albis majusculis 
orbicularibus paullo inter se inmqualibus sulFultis, fructibus Imvibus glabris, seminibus globoso- 
tetragonis atro-griseis subrugulosis caruncula destitutis angulo unico sulco levissirao exarato. 
Hab. Macao ; Mev. G. H. Vachel^n.^Al. 
4. Euphorbia bifida; glaberrima, glauca, caule decumbente, foliis oppositis breve petiola- 
tis lineari-oblongis basi oblique subcordatis obtusis serrulatis, inflorescentia bifida dichotoma. 
