336 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sauropus. 
petioled broadly elliptic glaucous beneath, flowers racemed on a densely 
bracteate peduncle, male calyx shortly 6-lobed, lobes retuse, glands large, 
fem. sepals obovate.— Wall. Cat. 7918 B. 
BURMA; at Prome, Wallich. 
Habit and leaves of S. quadrangularis, but the latter glaucous beneath, branch- 
lets much more slender, and male calyx very different. 
14. S. compressus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 73, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 243; shrubby, much branched, quite glabrous, branchlets 
angled and compressed, leaves very shortly petioled elliptic or broadly 
oblong obtuse or apiculate penninerved, flowers very minute, calyx of both 
sexes with 6 short broad retuse or obreniform lobes, fruit pisiform sessile, 
epicarp thin bursting irreeularly, cocci with a minute basal ventral perfora- 
tion. Kurz For. FL. ii..350. 
CENTRAL and Eastern HIMATAYA ; Nepal, Hamilton: Sikkim, on the lower 
hills, J. D. H., &c.; Bhotan, Grifith. MARTABAN; in the Eng forests. Kurz. 
A deciduous.leaved tree or large shrub; branches flattened, branchlets very 
slender, Leaves 1 in. and under, brown when dry, nerves 2-3 pair; petiole jj in.; 
stipules minute. Flowers dark red, solitary or few together, males Jj—; in. diam. ; 
fem. much larger, hardly enlarged in fruit; lobes of male very variable, sometimes 
with the truncate ends terminating at each angle in a recurved horn. Styles dis- 
tant as in S. quadrangularis. Fruit 4-4 in. diam. ; cocci } in. long.—I have seen no 
Martaban specimens of this. ! 
15. S. rigidus, Thwaites Enwm. 284; shrubby. quite glabrous, branch- 
lets acutely angled, leaves 1-$ in. very shortly petioled elliptic rounded or 
«nbobovate obtuse or apiculate, flowers minute, male racemed on a bracteate 
pedunele, calyx discoid papillose within with short retuse lobes, fem. of 
obovoid obtuse sepals, styles erect sunk in the concave ton of the ovary: 
fruit very small ovoid. Muell. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 243. 
CEYLON; common in the hot drier parts of the island, Thwaites. 
A small shrub, 1-2 ft. Leaves black-green above when fresh, with white in the 
middle, dark brown when drv. Male flowers solitary (or appearing one ata time), 
from a short axillary peduncle that is densely clothed with sinnate bracts, vellow- 
green, 45 in. diam.; fem. į- in.diam. Capsule 1 in. long.—T have very indifferent 
specimens, in male fl. only. "Thwaites remarks that the ovary resembles that of 
Aqyneia. I have no doubt as to its being a Ceratogynum, and very near to 
S. quadrangularis. 
15. PUTRANJIVA, Wall. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, evergreen, quite entire or serrulate, penninerved 
and reticulate. Flowers axillary, pedicelled, mono- or di-cecious, apetalous ; 
males clustered, fem. subsolitary ; disk 0. Mate ru. Calyx unequally 3-6- 
lobed or -partite, imbricate. Stamens 2—4 in the centre of the flower. fila- 
ments free or subconnate; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pistillode 0. 
Few. PL. Calyx of the male. Ovary ovoid, 2-3-celled ; styles short, spread- 
ing, dilated into broad fleshy arms; ovules 2 in each cell. Drupe ovoid or 
Jobose; endocarp hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed ovoid, testa crustaceous 
albumen fleshy, cotyledons broad flat.—Species 2, Indian. 
1. P. Roxburghii, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 61, and Cat. 6814; nearly 
glabrous, leaves obliquely ovate or ovate-lanceolate serrulate, sepals of male 
3-5, of fem. 5-6, stamens 1-3. Muel/. Avg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 443; Royle 
TII. 247, t. 83 bis: Wight Ic. t. 1876: Brand. For. Fl. 451, t. 53; Kurz 
For. Fl. ii. 366 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 353; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. t. 275; 
