Podadenia.] ^ cxxxv. gvPHoRBrACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 423 
Calyx glandular, ovoid or globose, acuminate, splitting into 3-4-valvate 
segments. Stamens many, in a convex receptacle, filaments free, mixed 
vith glands ; anther-cells distinct, pendulous from a projecting acuminate 
connective. Pistillode 0. Fem. rr. Sepals 4-5, imbricate. Staminodes 
subulate. Ovary 3-celled; styles very large, long, recurved, entire, papillose 
- on the inner surface; ovules l in each cell. Fruit subglobose, flesky, inde- 
hiscent, covered with sessile or stipitate glands. Seeds large, oblong, testa 
bony, aril large white fleshy, albumen copious ; cotyledons flat. 
P. sapida, Thwaites Enum. 274. P. Thwaitesii, Muell. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 791. Rottlera Thwaitesii, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 426 ; 
Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 282. 
CEYLON; at Ambagamowa and near Ratnapoora, Thwaites. 
, A tall tree; shoots and panicles tawny villously tomentose. Leaves 5-10 by 2}- 
5 in., coriaceous, dark brown when dry (as is the whole plant), obovate, abruptly 
acuminate, hairy beneath, midrib above tomentose, base narrowed; nerves 10-12 
pair, spreading ; petiole 3-2 in., terete, tomentose. Panicles large, spreading, tomen- 
tose, and with many red long.stipitate glands. Flowers red, males ł in. diam. 
Ovary globose, tomentose ; styles long, stout, twisted. Fruit reddish, subspherical, 
li in. diam., clothed with long fleshy projections terminating in peltate discoid 
glands. Seeds 3 in. long, brown. 
51. TRE WIA, Linn. 
„Trees, soft-wooded. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate- or orbicular-cordate, 
Quite entire, 3-5-plinerved. Flowers rather large, developed before the 
eaves, dioecious, apetalous; males in lax lateral bracteate racemes, one 1n 
each bract; fem. solitary on a long peduncle, or racemose. Disk 0. Mate 
r^ Calyx globose, splitting into 3-4 broad concave often reflexed segments. 
Stamens numerous, on a convex receptacle, filaments free ; anthers dorsifixed, 
oblong, cells contiguous parallel. Pistitlode 0. Frm FL. Sepals 3-5, broad, 
mbricate, caducous. Ovary 2-4-celled ; styles connate below, very long, 
rete, entire, papiliose all over ; ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit 2-4-celled, 
eshy, indehiscent or loculicidal, endocarp crustaceous. Seeds ovoid, testa 
ard, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.— Species 2, Indian. 
L T. nudiflora, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 3, Append. 1661; fem. fl. solitary 
w long-peduncled, fruit globose 1-1} in. diam., pericarp very thick. 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xy. ii. 953; Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 887; Wight le. 
4 1870-1 (exel. fem. fl.) ; Baill, Etudes Gen. Euphorb. t. 18, f. 18-23; Brand. 
Cor Fl. 443; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 379; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 859; Grah. 
at. Bomb, Pl.185; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 231; Wall. Cat. 7816, 7817. 
Renn tophylla, Roth Nov. Sp. 373. T. macrostachya, Klotzsch in Bot. 
eise Pr. Wald. 117, t. 23. Rottlera indica, Willd. in Gótting. Diar. 
Tete Nat. i. 8, t. 3; A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. t. 9, f. 29 C ; Wall. Cat. 7837. 
t dg astris ossea, Gertn. Fruct, ii. 130, t. 109, f. 5.— Rheede Hort. Mal. i. 
Co 
Ass 
mmon in the hotter parts of India from Kumaon southward, and eastward to 
AM, MALACCA and CEYLON.— DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. ü 
leave: arge deciduous tree, more or less tomentose or woolly, shoots and sometimes 
nearly beneath and inflorescence clothed with flocculent cottony wool, a others 
len 7 glabrous. Leaves 4-6 in. long and often as broad, variab'e in propor ion o 
fone to breadth, membranous, base rounded or cordate; petiole 1-3 in ale 
usually, 3-8 in.; flowers 1-j in. diam. ; pedicels slender, as long or longer. em. fl. 
long. " solitary, peduncle sometimes 4 in. long ; ovary densely lanate; styles i-i in. 
icf ost woody.— There are, I think, two varieties of this, both common, 
