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Plate 80] LAGOTIS EUPHORBIA ] 05
Lagotis globosa, Kurz.
A fleshy perennial herb. Rootstock slender. Leaves few,
long-stalked, oblong, cut to the midrib ;
lobes linear-oblong,
getting wider towards the blunt or notched tips. Flowering
stem slender, almost naked, shorter than the leaves, with a
few leafy bracts at the tip. Bracts much longer than and
concealing the flowers, i in. long, round to inversely eggshaped.
Flowers in a head 1-li in. diameter. Sepals 2,
inversely egg-shaped-oblong, one blunt, the other 2-toothed.
Corolla-tube curved, limb 2-lipped. Filaments slender, as long
as the upper lip. Style included ; stigma notched. Fruit
% in. long, ellipsoid.
Locality. Gilgit.
Distribution. Apparently endemic in Kashmir.
Lagotis decumbens, Kuprecht.
A fleshy, perennial herb. Eootstock small. Leaves longstalked,
egg-shaped or oblong, coarsely crenate, blunt at apex,
wedge-shaped at the base, 1-li in. long stalk 2-4 in., tapering
;
downwards. Flowering stems longer than the leaves, with a
few leafy bracts near the top. Bracts much longer than and
concealing the flowers, broadly egg-shaped, forming an oblong
head. Flower-spike li-2 in. long. Flowers ^ in. long. Sepals
inversely egg-shaped-oblong, one blunt, the other 2-toothed.
Lower lip of corolla 3- or 4-cloft. Anthers almost stalkless.
Style short, included ; stigma notched. Fruit narrowly
oblong.
Locality. Karakoram, 16,000-18,000 ft.
Distribution. Kashmir, Thian Shan Mts.
EUPHORBIACEAE.
The Spurge Family.
(Euphorbia is the Greek euphorbion of Dioscorides, so named
after Euphorbios, the medical attendant of Juba, King of Mauritania,
about 54 B.C.)
EUPHORBIA, Linn.
A note is necessary to explain the structure of the flowers
of this genus The flowers are small and either male or
:
female. Both male and female are contained in a cupshaped,
4- or 5-toothed or -lobed involucre. The teeth or
lobes of the involucre are almost hidden by 5 horizontal
glands placed in their angles. The glands are fleshy, smooth,