Trigonostemon.] cxxxv. EuPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 899 
oblong ; anthers sessile, cells subparallel on a globose connective. Capsule 4-2 in. 
din. deeply 3-lobed at the top, less so at the sides, thickly crustaceous, Seeds 
globose. 
37. TRIGONOPLEURA, Hook. f. 
A shrub or tree. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, oblong, quite entire, 
glabrous, penninerved. Flowers dicecious ?, small, in clusters in the leaf axils 
or on the branches, apetalous. MALE FL. Sepals 5, broadly oblong, coriaceous, 
broadly imbricate. Petals rather longer, obovate, villous on both surfaces. 
Disk of 5 large glands, round the base of the staminal column. Stamens 
about 8, filaments united in a column, tips free; anthers oblong, extrorse, 
cells adnate to the villous connective. Pistil/ode of 3 subulate processes 
terminating the column. FEM. FL. unknown. Capsule small, 3-lobed, 
oary; epicarp separable, wrinkled; cocci bony, separating from a 
columella with 3 hyaline wings. Seeds solitary in the cells, broadly 
oblong, dorsally compressed, testa black, polished ; aril large, pale. 
T. malayana, Hook. f. 
Perak, Scortechini (Herb. Perak. 738, 2056). Maracca, Maingay (Kew 
Distrib, 1452). 
Branches woody, stout or slender, branchlets puberulous, tips tomentose. Leaves 
4-6 in. by 14-21 in., sometimes linear-oblong, coriaceous or thin, brown when dry, 
obtusely cuspidate or subcaudate, base acute obtuse or rounded; nerves 8-10 pair, 
rather strong beneath, cross-nervules faint; midrib sometimes puberulous; petiole 
ot 1n.; stipules minute, ovate-oblong, pubescent. Flowers in numerous clusters of 
3 or more along the branches, hoary ; males about } in. diam. when spread open; 
Pedicels short, stout, tomentose; bracts 0; sepals obtuse, unequal ; petals small, 
when dry clothed with rafous hairs, sometimes notched at the tip or side, coriaceous. 
Staminal column included, rusty villous. Ovules (undeveloped seeds) solitary in the 
cells, with a broad fleshy ? obturator. Capsule about $in. diam. Seeds attached to a 
thickened placenta.—This genus differs from Trigonostemon in the anthers being 
Seated on a central column terminating in a 3-cleft pistillode, and entirely in habit 
and inflorescence, 
37*. CODIZEUM, Juss. 
Glabrous shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, penninerved. 
owers moncecious, in usually unisexual racemes, rarely a female at the 
base of the male racemes; males small, fascicled, fem. solitary. MALE FL. 
Sepals or calyx-lobes 3-6, membranous, imbricate. Petals small, alter- 
hating with disk-glands. Stamens 15-30, free, crowded ona low receptacle ; 
anthers erect, cells on the margins of a large connective, tips at length con- 
fluent. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 0. Disk subentire. 
vary 3-celled ; styles entire, elongate, slender, recurved ; ovules 1 in each 
cell. Capsule globose, of 8 2-valved parchment-like cocci. Seeds shining, 
testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Species about 4, 
alayan, Australian and Pacific. . 
c. variegatum, Blume Bijd. 606; leaves very variable from oblong 
to narrowly linear often variegated green and yellow, racemes long axillary. 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1119; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 405. C. pictum, 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3051. Croton bractiferus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 680. C. 
variegatus, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 3, 1424. C. pictus, Wall. Cat. 7714.—Rheede 
ort. Mal. vi. t. 61. 
In gardens, &c. specially in the Eastern Provinces ; native of 
the Moluces inert throughout INDIA, especially 
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