nti ene 
Cheetocarpus.| CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 461 
ceous, dark brown when dry, base acute; nerves 8-12 pairs, arched, very slender ; 
petiole 4—4 in., stout or rather slender ; stipules obliquely oblong-lanceolate. Flowers 
k in. diam., in globose clusters. Sepals rounded, concave. Stamens 8. Capsule 
{-1 in. long; bristles tawny yellow. Seeds black shining, caruncle 2-lobed fleshy 
crimson. Thwaites (Enum, l. c.) cites fig. 1 of the plate in the Journal of Botany as 
representing the male fl. of C. castanocarpus, but it appears to me to belong to 
coriaceus. 
_ 2. C. pubescens, Hook. f.; branches petioles and leaves beneath 
hirsutely tomentose, leaves very coriaceous oblong orlinear-oblong acuminate 
opaque, capsules subglobose densely clothed with long rigid bristles. C. 
castanocarpus, var. pubescens, Thwaites Enum. 975. 
CEYLON ; at Pasdun Corle, Thwaites. 
This, which is placed under C. castanocarpus by Thwaites, seems to me entirely 
different, in the mach stouter and very hirsute branches and leaves beneath, the 
much larger very coriaceous leaves 8-10 by 3-4 in., and more minute sessile tomentose 
flowers, narrower sepals, and shorter tomentose staminal column. 
3. C. coriaceus, Thwaites Enum. 275; glabrous, leaves very coria- 
ceous elliptic acuminate at both ends, capsule ellipsoid tubercled. Muell. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1122; Beddome Forester’s Man. 214, and Ft. 
Sylvat. t. 984, f. 11-14. C. pungens, Thwaites in Hook. Journ. Bot. vi. 
(1854) 301 (in part), t. 10 A, £. 6-9. 
CEYLON ; with C. castanocarpus. 
A moderate-sized tree. Leaves 3-6 in., base acute and produced on the very short 
stout petiole; nerves 5-7 pair, slender. Flowers tomentose. Sepals oblong. Fila- 
ments hairy. Capsule obscurely 6-angled, $ in. long, woody. 
64. BALIOSPERMUIM, Blume. 
Erect shrubs. Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, penninerved 
or3-5-plinerved at the 2-glandular base. Flowers small, monoecious or 
diccious, panicled or racemed, apetalous. Marr rr. globose. Sepals 4-6, 
membranous, orbicular, concave, imbricate. Disk of 4-6 glands. Stamens 
-30, on a small receptacle, filaments free or a few connate; anthers ter- 
minal, cells adnate for their whole length to the broad connective (nearly 
ree m B. malayanum), slits lateral, at first introrse. Pistillode 0 (or 3 in 
B. malayanum). Fem. FL. Sepals 5-6, lanceolate, entire or toothed, some- 
times acerescent in fruit. Disk entire. Ovary 3-celled, styles rather long, 
Stout, 2-fid or 2-partite, stigmatic surfaces smooth (not fimbriate); cells 
l-ovuled. Capsule of 3 2-valved crustaceous cocci. Seeds ovoid, testa 
crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat, broad.—Species 6, Indian, 
One of them Malayan. 
, The smaller species a good deal resemble Claozylon, but the anthers at once dis- 
inguish them. Kurz’s B. reidioides (For. Fl. ii. 411), from Siam, belongs to a very 
ifferent genus; it has 5 petals and 3 anthers crowning a column, which is seated in a 
Cupular disk, 
. 1. E. axillare, Blume Bijd. 604; moncecious, stem stout, leaves 
Sinuate-toothed upper small lanceolate lower large oblong ovate or rounded 
entire or palmately 3-5-lobed 3-5-plinerved, flowers in numerous axillary 
racemes, fruiting calyx not accrescent, ovary densely strigose, capsule large, 
dents Oblong. B. polyandrum, Wight Ic. t. 1885; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 
23 -. B. indicum, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 154, t. 155. B. Moritzianum, 
Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 395. B. angulare, Dene. mss. (fid. Baill). 
