402 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEH. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Ostodes. 
: : 3; der 
fainter nerves pale glaucous brown when dry, petiole shorter 4-1 in. long slender, 
rachis of cymes shorter, fem. fl. and capsule unknown.—Penang, King’s Collector, 
Curtis (No. 811). Singapore, Lobd (No. 304). 
39. BLACHIA, Baill. 
Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, or opposite or the upper suboppo- 
site, membranous, quite entire, eglandular, penninerved. Flowers monco- 
cious or subdicecious; males terminal subumbellate or racemose with 
filiform peduncle and pedicels, fem. solitary or fascicled, pedicels thickened 
above. Mate FL. Sepals 4-5, concave, membranous, imbricate. Petals 
4-5, small, rounded, hyaline. Disk-glands scale-like, alternating with the 
petals. Stamens 10-20, on a convex receptacle, filaments free ; anthers 
ovate, cells on the margin of the connective, tips at length confluent. Pis- 
tillode 0. 'FEw.rr. Sepals accrescent. Petals0. Disk obscure or annular. 
Ovary 3-4-celled ; styles filiform, 2-partite, recurved or revolute; ovules 
in each cell. Capsule of 32-valved cocci. Seeds oblong, estrophiolate, testa 
crustaceous shining, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Species 5 or 
6, South Indian, Ceylon and one Chinese. 
1, B. umbellata, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 387, t. 19, £. 18-20; 
leaves very shortly petioled elliptic-subrhombic or oblong, male flowers 
umbelled, fruiting sepals slightly enlarged spreading obtuse persistent. 
Benth. in Journ. Linn Soc. xvii. 226; Thwaites Enum.277. Croton umbel- 
latus, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 545; Wall. Cat. 7765. Codisum umbellatum, 
Mell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1118; Beddome Forester’s Man. 213, t. 23, 
TRAVANCORE, Klein, Wight. CEYLON; common in the south of the island, 
‘especially near the sea. 
A shrub. Leaves 4—7 in. by 11-3 in., broadest at or above the nriddle, cuspidately 
acuminate, much narrowed at the base; nerves 8-10 pair, very slender, nearly 
straight; petiole 3—4 in. Male fl. 8-10, on a capillary peduncle 1-3 in. ; pedicels 
4-4 in. ; buds globose; perianth + in. diam. Fem. fl. 1-4, on a rigid erect slender 
peduncle 1-2 in. long; pedicels 1—1 in., thickened upwards; perianth j in. diam., 
in fruit iin. Capsule 2 in. diam., smooth, deeply 3-lobed. Seeds j in. long, oblong, 
shining, mottled.— There is a tendency to an enlargement of the female sepals. 
2. E. reflexa, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 226; leaves petioled 
subrhombic.or elliptic obtuse cuspidate or obtusely acuminate, male flowers 
umbelled, fruiting sepals slightly enlarged acute spreading or reflexed 
persistent. 
NıLGHIRI Mrs., Herb. G. Thomson. 
Very closely allied to B. umbellata, but the leaves are usually much smaller, 2-3 
by 1-1} in. the petioles longer, }~} in., and the fruiting sepals more acute. The 
fruiting sepals are spreading as in umbellata or reflexed. Seeds } in. long, oblong, 
smooth, polished, mottled with brown. 
3. B. calycina, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 226; leaves sub- 
sessile elliptic-rhombic or -lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate, male f 
racemose, fruiting sepals much enlarged oblong obtuse or lanceolate 
acuminate persistent. Croton umbellatus, Wight Ic. t. 1874; Wall, Cat. 
7770, 7776, 8013. 
The Deccan PENINSULA, Klein, Heyne (Herb. Rottler), TRAVANCORE, at Cour- 
tallam, Wight. Nitaurei Mrs. (Herb. G. Thomson). 
