344 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEH. (J. D. Hooker.) [Choriophyllum. 
rudimentary ovary, filaments free, exserted; anthers stout, dorsifixed ; cells 
extrorse, parallel. Frm. rr. Sepals 4, broad, fleshy, embracing the ovary, 
imbricate. Ovary 3-celled; styles free, erect, thick, obtuse, undivided ; 
ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule of 3 2-valved cocci leaving a central column. 
Seeds oblong; testa crustaceous shining, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, 
flat. 
m 
C. malayanum, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1280.—Wall. Cat. 7975. 
MALAYA PENINSULA ; Penang, Maingay; Singapore, Wallich; Malacca, Griffith, 
Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1404). . 
A tall tree; branchlets stout, woody, terminal buds pubescent. Leaves sub 
terminal, 4-6 in., from oblong to linear-oblong or nearly obovate, obtuse, ves 
at the base into the stout petiole, subglaucous beneath ; midrib stout beneath; M" "de 
many, slender, reticulate ; petiole 4 in. Male cymes clustered, with the stout p dicels 
l-l} in. long; branches short, flowers 1, in. diam., clustered, sessile or Pe "ute 
i-i in.; buds globose, glabrous. Stamens as long as the sepals. Fem. sepals acute. 
Capsule about $ in. diam., epicarp separating from the thickly crustaceous cocci. 
19. MISCHODON, Thwaites. 
A tree. Leaves whorled, long, coriaceous, quite entire, penninerved. 
Flowers in short axillary panicles, dicecious, apetalous. | MALE FE ens 
panicled heads. Sepals 5-8, often unequal, imbricate. Disk 0. Stam m 
2-10, opposite the sepals, exserted, filaments free, filiform, rough; au " 
ovate, dorsifixed, cells parallel, slits extrorse. Pistillode 3-lobed. Fem. te: 
Disk annular. Ovary 3-4-celled; styles short, spreading, flat, oe 1-3 
ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule deeply lobed, of 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds 
in each coccus, testa crustaceous shining; albumen fleshy; cotyledons 
broad, flat. 
M. zeylanicus, Thwaites in Hook. Kew Journ. vi. (1854) 300, t. 10 B, 
and Enum. 975 ; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1124; Beddome Fl. Sylv. 
t. 290. 
CEYLON; near Galle and Kandy, Walker, Gardner, Thwaites. Deccan 
PENINSULA; on the Tinnevelly Hills, Beddome. ubtetra- 
A very handsome evergreen tree, 30-40 ft. ; branches terete, branchlets eu in., 
gonous, hoary-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, 3-4 in a whorl, 4-14 by or sub- 
oblong or linear-oblong, minutely strongly reticulate, base narrowed obtuse axillary 
cordate; petiole 3-3 in., stout; stipules 2, minute. Male fl. numerous, P. long ; 
bracteate pubescent panicles shorter than the leaves, reddish-yellow, 7375, 'obtusely 
sepals lanceolate, acuminate. Capsule X in. broad, smooth, glabrous, cocci Dare not 
keeled on the back. Seeds smooth, brown, 4 in. long.—Beddome’s specimen 
in flower or fruit. 
20. BISCHOFIA, Blume. 
te. 
A glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate; leaflets often eielon s. 
Flowers in axillary or lateral panicled racemes, minute, diœcious, ap Sepals 
males scattered or clustered, females longer pedicelled. . MALE Sia nens Š, 
5, concave, obtuse, imbricate, concealing the anthers. Disk 0. d broad. 
filaments short; anthers large, cells parallel. Pistillode p ary ex- 
Fem. FL. Sepals ovate, caducous. Staminodes 5, small, or 0., ach cell. 
serted, 3—4-celled; styles long, linear, stout, entire; ovules 2 ci o valved 
Fruit globose, fleshy, with 3—4 cells lined with a parchment-like fleshy ; 
endocarp. Seeds turgidly oblong, testa fibro-crustaceous, albumen 
cotyledons broad flat, radicle straight elongate. 
