Polydragma.] CXXXV. guPHomRBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 457 
cuspidately caudate or acuminate, penninerved, eglandular. Flowers 
small in axillary racemes, dioecious, apetalous. Disk 0. Mark Fv. globose 
in bud. Sepals 3, broad, concave, valvate. Stamens very many, filaments 
combined below in 6 bundles, each bundle branching out at the top into a 
globose mass of stipitate didymous anthers, connective arching over the top 
of both cells. Pistillode 0. “Frm. rr. Sepals 5, unequal, lanceolate, erect. 
Ovary globose, granulate and hispid; styles 3, elongate, subulate, erect, 
papillose on the inner surface, ovules l in each cell. Fruit? 
P. mallotiformis, Hook. f. 
MALAY PENINSULA; Perak, Scortechini. 
Branches slender, terete, woody, branchlets and racemes finely pubescent. Leaves 
6-9 in., membranous, green when dry, base acute or cuneate; nerves 5—6 pairs, with 
a very short basal marginal pair, all and the midrib very slender, cross-nervules 
distant; petiole 14-2 in., slender, hoary; stipules small, subulate. Male racemes 
Spiciform, solitary but numerous, 1—3 in., erect; pedicels short, 3-bracteate; bracts 
minute, ovate, acute; buds i in. diam. ; sepals membranous, nearly glabrous, obtuse, 
3-uerved ; filaments in 6 (rarely more) bundles, branching irregularly from below 
the middle; anthers innumerable, cells connate, connective forking at the top and 
arching over each cell but quite inconspicuous between them. Fem. racemes 3-4 in., 
slender, erect, lax-fid. to the base; pedicels à-i in., 3.bracteolate at the base; 
sepals jj in., pubescent and ciliate ; ovary covered with minute rounded tubercles and 
also sparsely hairy; styles about twice as long as the sepals. 
60*. RICINUS, Linn. 
A tall glabrous annual, sometimes shrubby or subarboreous. Leaves 
alternate, broad, palmately 7-many-lobed, serrate. Flowers large, in ter- 
minal subpanicled racemes, moncecious, apetalous, upper male crowded, 
lower female. Disk 0. MALE FL. Calyx membranous, splitting into 3-5 
valvate segments. Stamens very many, filaments crowded variously con- 
nate or in branching clusters ; anther-cells distinct, distant, subglobose, 
divergent. Pistillode 0. Frm. ru. Calyx spathaceous, caducous. Ovary 
3-celled ; styles short or long, spreading, often very large, entire 2-fid or 2- 
partite, feathery or papillose; cells l-ovuled. Capsule ot 3 2-valved cocci. 
Beeds oblong, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 
R. communis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1007; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. n. 
1017; Rozb. Fl, Ind. ii. 6892 Brand. For. Fl, 445; Kurz For. Fl. D. 400; 
Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 183; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 78; Gamble 
Man. Ind. Timb. 363; Sibth. Flor. Grac. x. t. 952; Hayne Arzneigew. x. 
t. 48; Schkuhr Handb. t. 312; Benth. & Trim. Med. Pl. iv. t. 237; Gerin. 
Pruct. t. 107; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. t. 10,11; Bot. Mag. t. 2209. 
R. inermis, Jacq. Ic. Rar.i.t.195. R. lividus, Jacg. Je. Rar. 1. t. 196; 
Schkuhr Handb. t. 812; Reichb. Hort. Bot. t. 153. R. speciosus, Burm. 
Fl. Ind. 307, t. 63, f£. 2. R. spectabilis, Blume Bijd. 623. R. viridis, Willd. 
Hort, Berol. t. 49. Croton spinosus, Linn. Sp. Pil. 1005.— Wall. Cat. 7804.— 
Rheede Hort, Mal. ii. t. 32. 
Cultivated throughout Inpra and naturalized near habitations.— DISTRIB. Tropics 
generally, probably indigenous in Africa. 
in evergreen bush or small tree; shoots and panicles glaucous. Leaves green or 
reddish, 1-2 ft. diam., membranous, lobes from oblong to linear acute or acuminate, 
gland.serrated ; petiole 4-12 in. Racemes stout, erect. Male fl. } in. diam. ; fem. 
