Üoccoceras.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 425 
racemes equalling or longer than the leaves, flowers shortly pedicelled. 
Pr in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 217. Hymenocardia plicata, Kurz For. 
. ii. 395. 
From Peau to TENASSERIM ; in swamp-forests, M* Clelland, &c. 
A tree, Leaves 4-6 in., dark brown when dry, most minutely gland-dotted 
beneath, base rounded or subcordate, nerves 4-6 pair above the basal Racemes 
slender. Male Ji. $ in. diam., clustered, shortly pedicelled; sepals membranous, 
concave, glabrous; stamens very numerous in a globose mass, filaments very short. 
em f. larger, pedicelled ; sepals minute, subulate, ciliate; ovary 3-gonous; styles 
2-3 fimbriate. Fruit not seen, 
53. CHELODISCUS, Baill. 
Shrubs or small trees with stellate pubescence. Leaves opposite, or 
alternate by the suppression of one, broadly ovate or orbicular, often long- 
petioled, 3-7-plinerved. Flowers bracteate in axillary spikes or racemes, 
small, dicecious, apetalous; males clustered in the bracts, fem. solitary. 
Disk 0. Marx rt, Sepals 3, valvate. Stamens 20 or more, surrounding a 
naked central receptacle, filaments free; anthers small, oblong, erect, cells 
Parallel, introrse. Pisti/lode 0. FEM. FL. Sepals 3, narrow. Ovary 2-5- 
celled; styles stout, erect, entire; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 3 
tomentose or spinous 2-valved cocci, separating from a central axil. Seeds 
Subglobose; testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy, cotyledons broad flat.— 
pectes 5 or 6, Indian and Malayan. 
Differs from Mallotus in the stamens surrounding a naked disk and the usually 
oblong anthers with the cells contiguous. 
l. C. montanus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 759; softly tomen- 
tose, leaves opposite or subopposite long-petioled 3—7-plinerved ovate-cor- 
ate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate sinuate-toothed minutely glandular 
heath, male spikes and fem. racemes short stout, stamens in one series, 
laments long villous, capsule smooth tridymous densely stellate-tomentose. 
Croton montanus, Wall. Cat. 7723 B. Ricinus dioicus, Wall. Cat. 7828; 
Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb, 294. 
Penang, Wallich, Porter, &c. 
A shrub or small tree, 18-25 ft.; branches terete. eaves in rather remote 
etal pairs, or with one of the pairs replaced by a branch or raceme, rather thin, 
"S greenish when dry; the broadest ovate-cordate, 7 by 4 in., narrowest 8. y 
“2 m, base rounded cuneate or cordate, upper surface scaberulously tomentose ; peno e 
Stout, 1-3 in. Racemes axillary or supra-axillary or nearly leaf-opposed ; ma d d 
abo, nacta minute; flowers in remote clusters of 2-3, subsessile, ovoid cute 
slend. 8 In. long; sepals 3, unequal, ovate lanceolate ; stamens about 25, fruit 
n iL quite free to the base, anthers didymous, connective inconspicuons i ron 
n 98e at the back of the anther; central receptacle orbicular, nearly at cocci 
l emes more robust; sepals 3, tomentose. Capsule 4-2 in. diam., depresses» lera 
Blobose, Seeds globose, smooth.—Thwaites, while referring this to his /tottle 
*rlocarpa, remarks of it that it differs in the hairy filaments. 
2. €. lappaceus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 393; densely furfuraceously to- 
ieee leaves opposite 4-8 in. ovate or broadly oblong entire or obscurely 
st and denticulate, racemes short axillary, bracts linear, ovary 3—4-ce e , 
denen crowded on the rec:ptacle, filaments glabrous short, capsules sessile 
ned with long soft villous filaments. Mallotus lappaceus, Muel/. Arg. 
DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 957. Croton letus, Wall. Cat. 7738. Rottlera lap- 
» Wall. Cat. 7845, 
