Blachia.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 408 
This has the subsessile leaves of B. umbellata, and even smaller leaves than B. 
reflexa; it differs from both in the enlarged fruiting sepals, which are 3-2 in. long.— 
The specimens in Rottler's Herbarium (from Heyne) are marked from Ceylon. 
.4. B. denudata, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 226; leaves petioled 
elliptic oblong lanceolate or ovate obtuse acute or acuminate, male fl. race- 
mose, fem. shortly peduncled, calyx deciduous after flowering. Croton 
umbellatum, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 231 (excl. syn.). 
The Concan and N. Canara, Ritchie, Stocks, Dalzell, Talbot, &c. . . 
. A shrub or small tree. Leaves very variable, 3-5 by 1-21 in.; jpetiole j-j in. 
r ^ fi. at the base of the racemes. Fruit variable in size, 4—} in. long, peduncles 
in. 
9. B. andamanica, Hook. f.; leaves elliptic or obovate obtusely 
acuminate, male fl. subumbellately corymbose, fem. corymbs subsessile, 
flowers very shortly pedicelled. Codiæum andamanicum, Kurz For. Fl. 
1.405. Dimorphocalyx andamanicus, Benth. in Gen. Pl. iii. 302. 
ANDAMAN ISLANDS, in tropical forests common, Kurz. 
A large evergreen shrub, everywhere glabrous. Leaves 3-6 in., base acute or 
obtuse, chartaceous, entire or subsinuate ; petiole}-$ in. Male fl. as in B. umbellata, 
fem. rather larger, both terminating young often axillary shoots. Sepals glabrous, of 
male rounded, of fem, ovate acute. Petals of male small; glands large, trigonous, 
‘truncate, fleshy. Stamens in several series. Ovary appressed hirsute; styles very 
long, 2-cleft. Capsule size of a small cherry, globose, 3-coccous, woody-coriaceous, 
roughish ; peduncle nodding, thickened upwards, Seeds ovoid-elliptic, silky grey, 
variegated.— Description chiefly from Kurz. 
40. DIMORPHOCALYX, T7. 
Glabrous trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, coriaceous, penninerved. 
lowers in axillary or terminal peduncled few-fld. racemes, or the fem. sub- 
solitary, dicecious. Marx rr. Calyx cupular, or 5-partite, 5-toothed or lobed, 
open in bud. Petals 5, longer and broader. Disk-glands 5, alternate with 
the petals. Stamens 10-20, on a short columnar receptacle, filaments stout, 
ree or the inner connate; anthers dorsifixed or innate; cells adnate to 
thick connective, parallel or divergent. Pistillode 0. Fem. FL. Sepals 5, 
Imbricate, enlarging greatly in fruit. Petals 5. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 
*erect, 2-fid; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 3 2-valved crustaceous cocci. 
Seeds ovoid, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.— 
Species 3-4, South Indian and Malayan. 
l. D. glabellus, Thwaites Enum. 978; leaves 2-3 in. elliptic-ovate 
polong or -lanceolate obtuse or subacute, stamens about 10, ovary strignse, 
oct i -Aii i dl ong or obovate. tri- 
€ perianth 3-11 in. diam., segments broadly o g m o orate on 
gonostemon Lawianus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. i 
Plant only). Croton glabellus, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 8019.— Wall. Cat. 8010 
and 7750 in part, 
s DECCA N PENINSULA, Heyne, Wight, CEYLON; common in the drier parts of the 
nd, Thwaites, 
kA small tree, Zeaves red brown beneath when dry, base acube oboro T rounded ; 
: many, very slender; petiole in. Male cymes erect; flowers . diam., 
AD pedicelled ; central ea ted in a slender column with 5 free ones at its 
Ve Fem. flowers long pedicelled ; pedicels with few small obtuse bracts. Petals 
