Plychopyris.] ^ cxxxv. EuPHORBIAcEK. (J. D. Hooker.) 455 
papillose on the inner surface; cells l-ovuled. Fruit large, broadly ovoid, 
densely velvety, suddenly tapering into a long stout velvety beak or style ; 
pericarp with 6 thick raised ribs, wrinkled transversely. 
P. costata, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 402 ; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1703. 
Perrak, Scortechini, King’s Collector. Mawacoa, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5031). 
Marneay (K. D. 1442).—DisvRIB. Sumatra. 
A tree, 30—70 ft., branchlets woody. Leaves 6-12 in., base contracted rounded 
or subcordate, above glabrous except sometimes the midrib, beneath more or less 
rusty-tomentose; nerves 15-20 pair, cross-nervules impressed above, much raised 
beneath ; petiole $ to 4 in.; stipules subulate. Male spikes 3-5 in., very stout. and 
as well as the flowers densely brown velvety; flowers shorter than the bracts, solitary 
or clustered, sessile or shortly stoutly pedicelled, globose in bud, expanded about in. 
diam. ; sepals broadly elliptic or oblong, leathery, glabrous within; stamens 100 or 
more, contorted in bud, glabrous. Clusters of fem. fl. à in. diam., covered with 
lanceolate velvety bracts like those of the male; sepals about } in. long. Fruit 
1-13 in. diam.; pericarp thin except at the thick wavy close-set ridges ; endocarp 
thin. Seeds immature.—I refer this with little hesitation to Miquel's P/ychopyzis, of 
Which its author had very imperfect specimens. It agrees in the foliage with his 
description and with a slight sketch made by Professor Oliver from the type speci- 
men lent to Kew trom Leyden, when the Z7/liacee (to which the genus was doubtfully 
referred by Miquel) were being examined for the “ Genera Plantarum." 
58. HOMONOIA, Lour. 
Rigid shrubs. Leaves alternate, narrow, or short and toothed, glandular- 
lepidote. Flowers in many- or few-fld. axillary spikes, or from the old wood, 
usually dioscious, apetalous. Disk 0. Mare FL. Calyx globose, splitting 
Into 3 valvate segments. Stamens numerous, in a dense globose head of 
branched filaments and anthers; anther-cells subglobose, divaricate, sessile 
on the filament, connective obscure. Pistillode 0. Fem ri. Sepals 5-8, 
narrow, unequal, imbricate, caducous. Ovary 3-celled; styles spreading, 
entire, papillose; cells 1-ovuled. Capsule small, of 3 smooth 2-valved cocci. 
eeds ovoid, testa crustaceous, hard, with a thin fleshy coat, albumen fleshy ; 
cotyledons broad, flat.—Species 3 or 4, Malayan. 
J. H. riparia, Lour. Fl. Coch. 637 ; leaves linear-oblong or -lanceolate 
quite entire or serrulate towards the tip densely glandular beneath, spikes 
long slender. Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 200, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
1023; Brand. For. FL 401; Kurz For. Fli. 401; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 
364; Beddome Fl. Sylv. & 919. Adelia neriifolia, Roth Nov. Sp. 375; 
Jus). Fl. Ind. ii. 849; Wight Ic. t. 1808; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 185; 
Dale. & Gibs, Bomb. Fl. 231, Ricinus salicinus, Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 
264. Spathiostemon salicinus, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. Ed. Nov. 4l. S. 
Pwense, Blume Bijd, 692; Thwaites Enum. 273 (not of BL). Hemato- 
.Permum salicinum, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb, 993. H. neriifolium & 
Monee Wall. Cat. 7953, 7955. Croton salicifolius, Geisel. Croton. 
ogr. 6. 
th Rocky river banks, Srxxrm HiwaravA, alt, 1-2000 ft., J. D. H. Assam and 
e KHasrA Hitz and southward to BURMA, TENASSERIM aud the ANDAMAN 
some and BuNDELKUND, Edgeworth. DkocAN PENINSULA, from the Concan 
me ward. CEYLON, common.— DisrRIB. Java. 
rigid evergreen shrub ; branches terete and leaves beneath glabrous or pubescent. 
aves erect, 24-7 in., hard when dry and red-brown beneath, obtuse acute or acumi- 
