458 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Ricinus. 
calyx nearly as long; styles often highly coloured. Capsule 4-1 in. long, globosely 
oblong, smooth or echinate. Seeds oblong, smooth, mottled. 
61. BENDOSPERMUIM., Benth. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, rounded, ovate-cordate, often. su» 
peltate, entire, 3—5-plinerved. Flowers small, in axillary long simp e 
spikes or racemes, diœcious, apetalous; males clastered, subsessi e M 
the rachis; fem. solitary in the bracts. Mate rr. Calyx globose, shor y 
unequally subvalvately 4-toothed. Stamens 6-10, on a convex or cons 
receptacle, filaments short; anthers didymous, equally 4-locellate s 
-valved.  Pistillode 0, or minute. FEM. FL. Calyx 5-toothed. Ovary ile 
celled; styles connate, forming a flat spreading entire or 3-lobed disk; ce s 
l-ovuled. Fruit globose or indehiscent.9-3-lobed, endocarp orustacenu , 
columella 0. Seeds globose, testa reticulately rugose ; embryo ?— Species 3—4, 
Malayan and Chinese. 
l. E. malaccense, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlvii. (1864), 469, and » 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1132 ; leaves orbicular-ovate, obtuse or acute, above Ë " 
brous or puberulous, beneath hoary and studded with minute glands, bas 
rounded or subcordate eglandular, fruit stellately hoary. 
PENANG, PERAK, SINGAPORE and MALACCA, Griffith, &c. . . us 
A tree; branchlets stout, pubescent or furfuraceous. Leaves 4—6 in., NA ed 
pale grey when dry above, yellowish or pale brown beneath, base cuneate roun ed 
or subcordate ; nerves 3-4 pair above the basal strong as are the cross-nervu " tors 
reticulations ; petiole 3-5 in. Racemes 3-4 in., slender, hoary, flower-elus era 
scattered; male fl. 3, in., sessile; fem. pedicelled. Fruit j in. diam., gio ose 
didymous, pericarp thin, wrinkled when dry, yellow, densely minutely glandular. 
2. E. perakense, King in Herb. Calcutt.; nearly glabrous, leaves 
broadly ovate-cordate glabrous above, base eglandular, fruit viscid. 
Perak; at Larut, King’s Collector. h more 
A tree, 80 ft., resembling E. malaccense, but the branchlets are muca der 
slender and quite glabrous, leaves smaller (3-5 in. long), peticle more siende’, 
: " iscid 
fruiting racemes shorter (3 in. long), quite glabrous, and fruit clothed with a vise! 
secretion. 
3. E. chinense ? Benth. Fl. Hongk. 304; leaves broadly ovate 
obtuse base truncate with 2 large glands beneath at the insertion of t 
petiole.— Wall. Cat. 7846. 
Perak, Scortechini. SINGAPORE, Wallich. . nd 
The specimens are very imperfect, but agree with the Chinese plant in form Kew 
the large tumid yellow glands at the base ot the leaf.—A similar plant is im the 
Herbarium, from Palembang in Java, Wallich’s specimens are in leaf only. 
62. GELONIUM, Roz). 
Evergreen glabrous shrubs or small trees ; branches with stipular lines 
at the nodes. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, pellucid-punctate, cc o: 
serrate ; stipules connate, sheathing, caducous. Flowers small, in sessi o 
shortly pedicelled axillary clusters, diœcious, apetalous. MALE FL. Separ o n 
orbicular, concave, imbricate. Disk obsolete. Stamens 10-60, crowde ells 
a convex receptacle, filaments filiform; anthers oblong, dorsifixed ; € 
