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EUPHOBBIACEJ3. 
[Euphorbia. 
smooth stiff woody terete branchlets marked below the rosettes with 
the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at the end of the 
branchlets, oblanceo late-oblong, short-petioled, cuneate at the base, 
3-4 in. long by 1-1 \ in. broad, glabrous, subcoriaceous, obtuse ; 
stipules conic, glandular, minute. Cymes of 1-3 heads, several from 
a rosette of leaves on 1-3 in. peduncles. Involucre •§• in. long, 
campanulate, subtended by a pair of oblong bracts ; glands 5, twice 
as broad as long, exappendiculate. Capsule twice as broad as long, 
yin. long, glabrous, deeply 3-lobed. Seeds globose, smooth, glabrous. 
Mauritius and Seychelles, common in poor soils and the crevices of rocks. 
Endemic. Fangame. Tanghin rouge. 
7. E. daphnoides, Half. fil. A shrub, with the habit of Daphne 
Laureola , with slender woody terete branchlets. Leaves crowded near 
the end of the branches, deciduous, scattered, exstipulate, short- 
petioled, oblanceolate, 2-3 in. long, y— f in. broad, glabrous, coriaceous. 
Heads in a deltoid cyme, 3-4 in. broad ; bracts large, obovate, 
coriaceous, the ultimate ones y in. long. Involucre nearly sessile, 
campanulate, T V in. long, glabrous, with 5 round entire glands. Eruit 
broader (£ in.) than long, deeply 3-lobed, glabrous. Seeds obovoid, 
glabrous, smooth, in- long. 
Rodriguez, Balfour ! Endemic. 
# E. Tirucalli, Linn. ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 96, a native of 
East Africa, now spread through the tropics of the Old World, is 
subspontaneous in Mauritius. It is a bush, reaching a height of 20 
feet, with copious rod-like green curved branchlets, from which the 
small scattered exstipulate linear leaves fall in an early stage, deltoid 
sessile cymes of several heads each from the forks and end of the 
branchlets, a campanulate pilose involucre T X T in. long, with transversely 
ovate glands and a pair of bracts at the base of the pedicel, a velvety 
deeply triquetrous capsule and smooth ovoid seeds. Tirucalli. 
8. E dracunculoides, Lam. ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 139. An 
erect glabrous annual, 1-1J feet high, with scattered sessile spreading 
linear glabrous acute leaves 2-3 in. long, narrowed to both ends. 
Heads in sparse lax dichotomous cymes on long single peduncles 
from the axils of the upper leaves, and whorled peduncles from the 
end of the main stem : ultimate bracts y in, long, lanceolate, like the 
leaves in texture. Involucre y 1 -^ in. long, subsessile, campanulate, 
glabrous, with 2-horned glands. Capsule glabrous, rather broader 
(i in.) than long, with acutely keeled turgid valves. Seeds oblong, 
mottled, not pitted. Boiss. Ic. Euphorb. t. 91. 
Mauritius, a frequent weed. Also Bourbon and Tropical Asia. 
* E. Peplus, Linn.; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 141, a common 
European weed, is now introduced into Mauritius and Rodriguez. 
It is an erect glabrous annual foot high, with scattered petioled 
obovate obtuse membranous leaves, heads in an ample corymb first 
