400 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Codicum. 
An evergreen shrub. Leaves 2-10 in. long, often waved and infinitely variable in 
form and colouring. 
38. OSTODES, Blume. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, broad, toothed or entire, penninerved, 
rarely triple-nerved at the base, which is 2-glandular or not. Flowers in 
lax terminal and lateral panicled racemes, rarely in axillary fascicles, mono- 
or di-cecious; males fascicled or cymose, fem. in separate racemes or solitary 
in the male cymes. MALE FL. Sepals 5, broad, unequal, imbricate. Petals 
5-6, longer. Disk of 5 glands or 0. Stamens 8-30, inserted on a convex or 
columnar receptacle ; anthers dorsifixed, of the inner series often horizontal, 
cells introrsely adnate to the broad connective, rarely extrorse, parallel or 
divergent. Pistillode 0. FEx.rr. Perianth of the male. Ovary 3-celled; 
styles short, 2-cleft, ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule subglobose, 6-ribbed, 
endocarp almost bony, at length breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds 
ovoid, testa crustaceous (? pulpy when fresh), albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 
broad, dlat.— Species 6-8, Indian and Malayan. 
As above defined, Ostodes is a heterogeneous assemblage of trees and shrubs with 
simple leaves, unisexual flowers, a double perianth of 5—6 imbricate sepals, as many 
petals, and 8 or more free stamens on a central receptacle. 
1. O. zeylanica, Muell Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 214, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 1114; leaves elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate obtuse acute or 
acuminate crenate-serrate all penninerved longer than the petiole, flowers 
in large branched finely scurfily tomentose panicles, petals elliptic. Bed- 
dome Fl. Sylvat. t. 274. Desmostemon zeylanicus, Thwaites Enum. 278; 
Beddome in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 925, t. 97. 
TRAVANCORE; on the Anamallay Hills, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beddome. CEYLON; 
common in the drier parts of the island ; ascending to 4000 ft. 
A tree, young parts scurfily pubescent; branchlets robust. Leaves 6-12 by 
2—4 in., coriaceous, brown when dry, serratures glandular; petiole stout, 1-5 in., 
terete. Panicles 6-12 in., pendulous; branches spiciform, strict; bracts short ; 
flowers fascicled, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, } in. diam. Male fl.; sepals 
rounded; petals longer, erect and recurved; stamens about 15, 5 free, 10 with 
filaments united below. Fem. /l; disk annular, strigose within ; ovary subglobose, 
strigose; styles cuneate, 2-fid. Capsule 1} in. diam. or less, hoary.— Thwaites 
describes this as a very variable plant. Some branches bear, instead of flowers, short 
fol in. long spikelets clothed with subconfluent bracts. 
Van. minor, Thwaites l.c. ; subarboreus or shrubby, smaller in all its parts, leaves 
sometimes narrowly lanceolate, branches of panicles very slender, flowers $ in diam.» 
capsule 14 in. diam. O. minor, Muell. Arg. in Linnæa and DC. ll. ce. Trigonostemo 
zeylanicus, Muell. Arg. in Linnæal. c. 213, and in DC. l. c. 1106 ; Beddome Forester $ 
Man. 212. Tritaxis zeylanica, Muell. Arg. in Flora 47 (1864) 482. 
2. O. paniculata, Blume Bijd. 690; leaves ovate acuminate or can 
date serrate equalling or longer than the petiole, base triple-nerved, flower 
in short or long branched glabrous panicles, petals broad glabrous, wit 15; 
Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i.i. 384; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1- 1119; 
Kurz For. FL ii. 404. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, in tropical valleys, and ascending to 5000 ft., J. D. H. fT a 
&c. BHOTAN, Griffith. SILHET, at Terrya Ghat, J. D. H. 4 T.T. MARTABAN, Ad? 
—DISTRIB. Java. 2 by 
A tree, shoots pubescent; branches very stout, bark white. Leaves 8-12 les 
4-7 in. thickly coriaceous, 2.glandular at the base; petiole 2-10 in. Panic 
