456 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Homonota. 
nate, base acute or rounded ; nerves 10-30 pairs; petiole ~,-} in. Spikes 2-5 in.; 
flowers quite sessile, males 4 in. diam. ; rachis pubescent ; bracts acuminate. Sepals 
of male oblong, glabrous, of fem. ovate-lanceolate, pubescent. Ovary pubescent. 
Capsule 4 in. diam., globose, tomentose, smooth or sparingly tubercled. 
2. H. retusa, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 200, and in DC. Prodr. 
xv.ii. 1022; leaves obovate or cuneate-obovate or oblanceolate entire or 
toothed towards the tip sparsely glandular beneath, spikes short stout. 
Brandis For. Fl. 445; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl.185; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 
231; Beddome Forester's Man. 212. Adelia retusa, Wight Ic. t. 1869. A. 
cuneata, and Hematospermum cuneatum, Wall. Cat. 7954. 
In river beds, Deccan PENINSULA, from the Concan to the Nilgbiris. uu 
A small rigid glabrous shrub, with stout woody branches. Leaves 1-2 in., rigidly 
coriaceous, narrowed from above the middle to the acute base, tip rounded or retuse 
often mucronate; nerves 6-10 pairs; petiole very short. Spikes $-1 in. bracts 
subulate, rachis giabrous; flowers minute. Sepals of male glabrous, of fem. pubes 
cent. Capsules j;— in. diam., hoary. 
59. LASIOCOCCA, Hook. f. 
A small tree. Leaves alternate or subternately whorled, shortly petioled, 
narrow, quite entire, penninerved, eglandular. Flowers moncecious, apeta- 
lous; males in axillary racemes; fem. solitary, in the upper axils pedicelled. 
Mate rr. Calyx globose, splitting into 3 valvate concave segments. Disk 0. 
Stamens very many, in a dense globose head of branched filaments bearing 
many anthers; anther-cells globose, divaricate, connective arching over the 
top and sides of the cells. Pistillode 0. Fem. ru. Sepals 5-7, unequal, 
imbricate, glandular and pubescent, persistent and enlarged in fruit. Ovary 
3-celled; styles 23, filiform, combined in a column below; cells ]-ovuled. 
Capsule of 3 cocci, densely clothed with rigid hispidly setose pales. 
A remarkable genus, differing from Homonoia in the inflorescence, persistent 
fem. sepals enlarged in fruit, and the capsule densely clothed with rigid setose 
paleæ. 
L: symphilliæfolia, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1587. Homonoya sy™ 
philliæfolia, Kurz in Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 364. 
SIKKIM TERAI, Gamble (and cult. in Calcutta Bot. Garden). 
A moderate tree (Gamble). Branchlets terete with white bark; shoots pubes: 
cent. Leaves 3-6 by 1-1} in., panduriformly lanceolate, acuminate, contracte 
above the narrow cordate base, smooth, glabrous, green when dry ; nerves 8-10 pair, 
slender, arched ; petiole ;,—] in., pubescent. Male racemes pendulous, many-fid.5 
rachis pubescent ; bracts rounded, concave, pubescent ; flowers shortly pedicelled, 
4 in. diam., or smaller, Sepals orbicular, membranous, finely pubescent. Stamens 
effuse, anthers minute. Fem. flowers erect, on hispid glandular bracteolate pedicels iin. 
long. Sepals irregularly placed, 2-3 inner much smaller than the others, outermost 
broadly ovate, the others ovate-lanceolate, all glandular on the back and with the 
margins with long simple and shorter gland-tipped hairs. Disk obscure or 0. Ovary 
subglobose, 3-labed, pubescent ; styles long, erect, connate below in a stout column, 
with three slender erect arms. Capsule (immature) 4 in. diam., depressed, seated on 
the enlarged spreading linear-oblong acuminate glandular sepals.— The native spect 
mens are male, with flowers as described; the Calcutta Garden ones have muc 
smaller male flowers. 
60. POLYDRAGMA, Hook. f. 
A shrub or small tree ¥ Leaves*alternate, elliptic-oblong or -obovate 
