418 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Adenochlena. 
penni- or tripli-nerved, quite entire. Flowers in terminal or axillary spici- 
form racemes, or capitate, monccious, males many clustered, females few, 
at the base of the spike. Disk 0. Marx rr. globose in bud. Sepals 4—6, 
valvate. Stamens 4—6, filaments free, exserted ; anthers dorsifixed, versatile ; 
cells adnate to the thick connective, parallel. Pistil/ode columnar. Frm. 
FL. Sepals 5-8, narrow, very unequal, sometimes accrescent and pinnatisect. 
Ovary 3-celled; styles long, connate below, spreading and bifid above with 
recurved plumosely papillose multifid arms; ovules lin each cell. Capsule 
of 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds estrophiolate, subglobose, testa crustaceous, 
albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Species 4 or 5, Indian and Malayan. 
P Secr. I. Leaves penninerved. Fruiting calyx unaltered. SYMPHYLLIA, 
aill. 
1. A. silhetiana, Benth. in Gen. Pl. iii. 308; leaves crowded at the 
ends of the branches, subpanduriformly oblanceolate acuminate from a con- 
tracted cordate base, spikes terminal interrupted, flowers densely clustered 
sessile on short lateral thickened branchlets glabrous. Symphyllia silhe- 
tiana, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 474, t. 11, £. 6, 7; Muell. Arg. in DC. 
por i ii. 764, Cluytia semperflorens, Wall. mss. (not Roab.).— Wall. 
at. 9095. 
Kuasia Mrs., Wallich, Griffith. 
Branches stout, woody, finely stellate tomentose, as are the petioles and rachis of 
the racemes. Leaves 6-10 by 14-24 in., thinly coriaceous, contracted above the 
2-auricled base; midrib and 12-15 pairs of arched anastomosing nerves very pro- 
minent beneath; petiole 45-3 in., very stout. Racemes stout, erect, 2-6 in. long ; 
rachis quite naked between the clusters of flowers; bracteoles minute, pubescent ; 
flowers 4!; in. diam. ; sepals 4, ovate ; disk with a few hairs; pistillodesmall. Ovary 
stellately tomentose ; styles united below in a column, arms pubescent. Capsule 
unknown. 
Var. trichantha, Muell. l.c. ; flowers smaller stellately tomentose. Kurz For. Fl. 
ji, tect er Helfer.— Possibly a different species, but the specimen is too 
ect. 
2. A. indica, Beddome mss.; leaves short- or long-petioled elliptic or 
oblong obtuse, spikes lateral and terminal interrupted, flowers densely 
clustered scurfily puberulous. Cephalocroton indicum, Beddome Fl. 
Sylvat. t. 261. Symphylli llotiformi j j xiv. 
136, and in DU. Pl "A y mT iformis, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xx 
Deccan PENINSULA; on the Ghats from Canara to Travancore. 
A large tree, branchlets puberulous, Leaves 3-7 in., greenish or pale brown 
when dry, rather shining above, tip often narrowed but obtuse, base rounded or 
narrowly cordate at the petiole; nerves 8 pair, strong beneath; petiole very variable 
in length, 3-4 in., rather thickened at the top. Spikes 2-6 in.; bracts minute; 
male buds globose, 5}; in. diam. ; stamens 4—5, large, exserted. Fem. fl. very rare, at 
the base of the spikes; sepals lanceolate, unequal, tomentose; ovary and style tomen- 
tose, the latter stout and often much longer than the sepals ; stigmas twice-forked, 
fimbriately papillose. Capsule subglobose, slightly scabrous, j in. diam.— Some 
specimens of this were distributed under * Herd. Ind. Or., Claoxylon, 14," and its re- 
semblance to Mallotus is singular. It is also singular that no specimens occur in 
Wight’s Herbarium, and that it has not been found in the Nilghiri Hills; the ** Herb. 
Ind. Or. H.f. & T.» specimens, obtained by G. Thomson's collectors in the Nilghiri 
and Kurg, are hence no doubt from the latter country. 
Sect, II. Fruitin l i ini ENTRO- 
Pe paar e ting calya accrescent, pectinately laciniate. C 
