EUPHORBIA THYMIFOLIA. Linn.
Shwet kherua, . BENG. Patcha-arisc . . TAM.
Duddhi, . . . . Sittrapaladi, . . „ Racta vmda chada, SANSK. Bidduru nanabiyam, TEL. Chin-amam, . . TAM. Reddi-vari-nana-bala, „ This little annual plant is common in the south of Asia. Its juice and flowers are purgative, and given in worms.—Roxb. ; O'Sh.; Honig. EUPHORBIA TIRACULLI: Linn. Milk-hedge.
Azfur zukkum, . ARAB. Tirukalli, . . MALEAL. Lanka sij, . . . BENG. Shir tothar, . . PERS. Indian tree spurge, ENG. Tirukalli, t . . TAM. Sendh MND. chemudu, . TEL.
Seyr teg, . . . MAHR. Lodhoka sijhu, . . UnirA.
Natives of India suspend in their houses a few branches of the milk-hedge to attract flies. On the Bombay side it is used as a dunnage material for the flat roofs of houses. The root of old shrubs is adapted for gun-stocks, but plants -of sufficient age are seldom met with. On the
Godavery it grows to a tree, and the wood seems hard, but is not used there. The plant is much used for hedges. It grows best either upon a bank, or wall of large stones laid loosely for the purpose, having a good cover of earth upon it.
—Any_ cuttings will grow, and the plant, if by itself, will ittain the height of 20 feet or more. The wood makes the best charcoal for gunpowder. A parasite of a yellow thread-like appearance, and leafless (the Cassyta filiformis), is very destruc tive to it, and will totally destroy a tree or a whole hedge in a short time, if not removed. The milk,• mixed with flour, in doses of a drachm daily, is used to blister, as an Indian specific in syphilis. The inspissated milk is a violent emetic and purgative.—Roxb., O'Sh.,,TVight, Riddell.