Adenochlena.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 419 
3. A. zeylanica, Thwaites Enum. 270; branches leaves beneath and 
racemes finely stellate-tomentose, leaves subdeltoidly ovate or lanceolate acu- 
minate from a truncate or subcordate 3-plinerved base, male fl. in peduncled 
heads. Cephalocroton zeylanicus, Baill. Rec. Obs. Bot. 5, 148; Muell. Arg. 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 763. Beddome Foresters Man. 206. Centrostylis 
zeylanica, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 470, t. 2, f. 28, 29. 
CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 4—5000 ft., Thwaites. 
A suberect shrub; branches slender. Leaves membranous, 3-7 by 1-3 in., brown 
when dry, pale beneath; nerves 5-8 pairs above the basal, slender; petiole 4-1 in., 
slender; stipules minute, subreniform. Male fl. 3; in. diam., tomentose ; sepals 
4-5, rarely 2, obtuse; filaments very stout; anthers large ; pistillode pubescent below. 
Fem. fl. larger than the males; sepals 5-6, flowering lobulate at the base, fruiting 
nearly lin. long with filiform purple gland-tipped segments; ovary tomentose, 3- 
lobed ; styles very large, much branched, branches clothed with long papilla. Capsule 
depressed, cocci rounded. Seeds subspheric, 3 in. diam., brown marbled with black. 
Ont should be disposed to keep up Baillon’s genus Centrostylis in a revision of the 
rder. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
A. LEUCOCEPHALA, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 473. Cephalocroton leuco- 
cephalus, Muell. Arg. in DC. xv. ii. 762; Beddome Forester’s Man. 206, is a Mada- 
gascar plant, erroneously also ascribed to Ceylon. 
48. CELODEPAS, Hassk. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, oblong, entire or toothed, penninerved. 
owers in axillary spicate clusters, monoecious or dicecious, apetalous ; 
fem. few at the base of the spike. Disk 0. Mate rr. Calye globose, 
splitting into 3-4 valvate segments. Stamens 4-8, filaments cuneately 
dilated from the base upwards, free or connate at the very base; anthers 
terminal, didymous, cells pendulous or spreading from the connective, 
introrse. Pistillode minute, protruded. Fem. rt. Calyx cupular, embracing 
the ovary, often enlarged in fruit; lobes 4-10, imbricate. Ovary 3-celled ; 
styles spreading, flattened, 2—multifid, lobes toothed or lacerate; ovules 1 
in each cell. Capsule of 3 2-valved stellately-pubescent cocci. Seeds sub- 
globose, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Species 
3, South Indian and Malayan. 
1. C. Wallichianum, Benth. in Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 1288; branchlets 
glabrous, leaves subsessile broadly oblong-lanceolate quite entire or sub- 
entire glabrous base cordate, spikes interrupted tomentose upper andro- 
gynous lower short female, anther-cells pendulous introrse, styles dilated. 
—Wall. Cat. 9098. 
Penana, Porter, 6-10in 
A tree ; branches glabrous, tips of shoots and petioles puberulous. Leaves " in., 
Coriaceous, shining, red-brown when dry, sometimes obscurely crenate near t naa 
herves 12-14 pairs arched, reticulate; petiole very short and thick or 0; stipu ns 
small, subulate, Spikes short, white-tomentose ; male fl. minute, globose, clustered 
em. few, solitary in small bracts, Filaments united at the base, dilated upwar mick 
Suddenly contracted at the tip; anther-cells small, diverging. Pistillode thick, 
truncate. Fem, calyx tomentose, lobes short ; styles thick, much larger than the 
vary, multifid, lobes papillosely fringed. 
2. C. calycinum. Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 320, and Forester's Man. 207 ; 
branchlets fürfuraceously pubescent, leaves subsessile elliptic or linear- 
biong acuminate crenate-serrate, spikes scurfily pubescent, fem. calyx 
much enlarged in fruit, styles 2-fid lacerate. 
