408 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Agrostistachys. 
find no reason to doubt their belonging to one species, and that a very elegant 
one. 
43, SUMBA VIA, Baill. 
Trees with stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, broad, 3-nerved, quite 
or subentire. Flowers in axillary spiciform racemes, monoecious; males 
clustered, subsessile ; fem. solitary amongst the males, pedicelled. MALE n 
Calyx globose, membranous, splitting into valvate lobes. Petals E , 
short. Stamens many, on a convex eglandular receptacle, filaments free; 
anthers oblong, erect, dorsifixed, cells parallel. Pistillode 0. FEM. ri 
Calyx 5-fid, lobes narrow, imbricate. Petals minute or 0. Ovary 3-celled ; 
styles recurved, entire; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 2 2-valved cocci. 
— Species 3, Malayan. 
Differs from Mallotus only in having petals. 
S. macrophylla, Muell. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 432, and in D C. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 727; leaves narrowly peltate ovate-oblong or -lanceols 
acuminate sides rounded or angled base contracted or rounded 2-glandular. 
Kurz For. Fl. 376. 
UPPER BURMA; near the Serpentine Mines, Griffith. Prau to TENASSERIM; 
in forests, Kurz. ‘tish 
An evergreen tree, 25-35 ft.; shoots, petioles, leaves beneath and racemes whitis 
with scurfy tomentum, Leaves 6-12 in., thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, ia jn 
6-8 pairs above the basal, transverse nervules distant ; petiole 2-3$ in., tip rat er 
thickened. Racemes shorter than the leaves, pendulous; flowers d-i in. diam. 7 
bud. Sepals 4, unequal, larger orbicular, concave, tawny, stellate-tomentose. Petals 
of the male rounded, shorter than the stamens, hyaline. Disk of fem. urceolate. 
Stamens about 70 on a sparingly pubescent receptacle; filaments very short, slender , 
anthers longer, linear-oblong. Ovary ovoid-oblong, acuminate, densely stellately 
tomentose; styles erect, spreading.—I have seen Griffith’s specimens, which are m 
male fl. (bud) ; the description of the female is from Kurz. The anthers are dorsi- 
fixed though far down, not basifixed as described by Kurz in his plant. 
44. CHROZOPHORA, Weck. 
Diffuse, densely hispid or stellately tomentose herbs or undershrubs- 
Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, wavy or plaited, 2-glandular n 
the base. Flowers in sessile axillary bracteate racemes, mon@cious ; braci iS 
1-fld.; males crowded in the upper part of the raceme; fem. solitary, Pe ui 
celled. Mate rr. Calyx globose or ovoid, splitting into 5 valvate segments. 
Petals 5, short. Disk obscure. Stamens 5-15, filaments connate below de 
one or more whorls; anthers oblong, cells contiguous, parallel. Pistillo " 
0. Frm. ri. Sepals narrow. Petals narrow or 0. Disk-glands short, broad. 
Ovary 3-celled; styles erect or spreading, 2-fid; ovules 1 in each ods 
Capsule of 3 hispid tomentose or scaly subfieshy 2-valved cocci. "m 
estrophiolate, testa shining, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat. 
Species 4-6, Mediterranean, Asiatic and African. 
l. C. tinctoria, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 98, t. 7, f. 25; annual 
prostrate, leaves 11-21 in. long petioled from ovate and sinuate-too Gn 
or entire to rounded and obtusely lobed, ovaries and capsules stellately tomer 
tose and clothed with silvery scales. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 8. ^^" 
ee ana D 
