328 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Flueggia. 
12. FLUEGGIA, Willd. 
Unarmed or spinescent shrubs. Leaves small, alternate, distichous, 
quite entire. Flowers minute, axillary, pedicelled, dicecious, apetalous ; 
males numerous, clustered ; females subsolitary. Matern. Sepals 5, sub- 
petaloid, imbricate. Stamens 5, or fewer, alternating with as many disk- 
glands; filaments free; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pistillode large. 2-3-fid. 
Fem. FL. Calyx of the male. Disk annular, toothed. Ovary 1-3-celled ; 
styles recurved, united below, elongate, entire, notched or 2-fid, ovules 2 in 
each cell. Fruit globose. coriaceous, or with a fleshy epicarp, bursting 
irregularly or into distinct 2-valved cocci. Seeds triquetrous, dorsally convex, 
ventrally acute, testa crustaceous, albumen scanty ; embryo curved, coty- 
ledons broad flat.—Species about 6 in the tropics of the Old World. 
The large pistillode of the male fl.,and the usually long recurved styles united below 
into an erect column of the female, are the best characters for this genus. 
1. F. microcarpa, Blume Bijd. 580; glabrous, unarmed, branchlets 
slender angled and compressed, leaves elliptic ovate obovate or orbicular 
loosely reticulated beneath. F. melanthesoides, F. Muell. in Trans. Bot. Soc. 
Edinb. vu. 490. F. Leucopyrus, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 236 (not of Willd.). 
F. virosa, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 593, t. 26, f. 39-43 (not of DC.); 
Wall. Cat. 7928. F.leucophylla, Wall. Cat. 7916. F. angulata, Baill. Ree. 
Obs. i. 80. F. obovata, Herb. Ham. F. elliptica, Herb. Ham. Securinega 
obovata, Muell. Arg.-in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 449; Brand. For. Fl. 495; 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 354; Beddome Foresters Man. 197; Benth. 
Fl. Austral. vi. 115. S. Leucopyrus, Brand. For. Fl. 456, t. 54 in part. 
Phyllanthus obtusus, Schrank in Flora Ratisb. Syllog. ii. 65 ; Wall. Cat. 
7941. P. Wightianus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 6 (not 47), and in DC. 
l. c. 334 (not 425); Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 180. P. lucidus, Hort. ez Steud. 
Nomencl. P. virosus, Roxb, in Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 578, and in Fl. Ind. in. 
659; Wall. Cat. 7928 A, B (C in part), È. P. griseus, Wall. Cat. 7918 A in 
pert. P. leucophyllus, Herb. Strachey & Winterb. P. retusus, Roxb. 
l. c. 657. P. glaucus, Wall. Cat. 7997 B. P. rotundatus, Herb. Wight. 
Leptonema melanthesioides, F. Muell. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ix. (1897) 17. 
Cicca obovata, Kurz For. Fl.ii. 354. C. pentandra, Blanco Fl. Filipp- 486. 
Chorizandra pinnata, Wight Ic. t. 1994. Xylophylla obovata, Willd. 
Enum. Hort. Berol. 229.  Bessera inermis, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 90. Drypetes 
bengalensis, Spreng. Syst. iii. 902. Bradleia dioica, Vahl mss.— Wall. Cat. 
Throughout INDIA; from Kashmir ascending the Himalaya to 5000 ft., to 
Bhotan, and Assam and southwards to Malacca and Travancore. SOIND, Stocks. 
CEYLON, Kelaart.—DisTRIB. China, Malay Islands, Australia, Trop. Africa. . 
A deciduous-leaved large shrub or small tree (Kurz). Leaves very variable, thin, 
1-3 in. long, subgiaucous beneath, tip rounded, obtuse, acute or rarely retuse ; nerves 
5-7 pairs, very slender; petiole 1-1 in., slender. Flowers usually in very dense 
fascicles from a crowd of minute bracts, 5—5 in. diam. ; pedicels $-4 in., capillary, 
females the longest. Sepals rounded or oblong, concave. Stamens 3-5 alternately 
with glands usually far exserced, filaments sometimes very long, all free to the base. 
Pistillodes 3, united at the base, slender, erect, with recurved simple or lobulate tips» 
rarely 2 or 0. Ovary ovoid, on an annular disk ; styles 3, bifid. Fruit globose, 9 
two sizes, mostly minute 3-] in. diam. with a dry pericarp, a few j in. diam. white 
with a fleshy pericarp, Seeds 3-6, minutely punctate. ` 
2. F. Leucopyrus, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 757 ; a glabrous woody tortuous 
bush, branchlets stout ending in spines, leaves obovate obcordate oF orbica 
