464 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker) [piprinus. 
as many minute naked or 2-glandular thick scales (or involucral bracts). 
Ovary short, 3-celled ; styles 3, connate in a long stout column, tips sprea , 
ing 2-fid. and subpalmately lobed; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule large, 0 
2-3-subglobose 2-valved cocci. Seeds subglobose, testa crustaceous. 
E. malayanus, Griff. Notul. iv. 487; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
xv. ii. 1024. 
Maracca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4787), Maingay (K. D. 1393). PERAK, Scorte- 
chini, King’s Collector. 
A shrub or tree, sometimes 30 ft.; branchlets very stout, puberulous. Leaves 
8-14 by 4-6 in., thinly coriaceous, smooth, greenish or brownish when dry, oblong 
ovate, long-acuminate, base obtuse or cordate; nerves 9-12 pair, slender but muc 
raised, as are the nervules; petiole 3-5 in., terete, tip swollen; stipules not "I : 
Racemes 2-6 in., simple or branched below, hoary-tomentose ; rachis very stout ; 
bracts small. Male sepals rounded, glabrous within. Ovary deeply 3-lobed am 
stout style densely stellate-tomentose, Capsule 1 in. diam., hoary, valves woocy N 
pedicel stout, 1-14 in. long; fruiting sepals 14-2 in. long, pubescent on both surfaces, 
midrib and nerves strong. Seeds 3 in. diam. 
66. PLUKENETIA, Linn. 
Twining shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, often cordate, 3-5 
plinerved, entire or toothed. Flowers in axillary lateral or leaf-oppote 
androgynous racemes, apetalous; males usually minute, fascicled; fema » 
lower on the raceme. Dist 0. Mate rr. Sepals 4-5, valvate. Stamens 
8-30, on a prominent receptacle, filaments short free; anthers erect, ^t l- 
globose or didymous, parallel or diverging. Pistillode 0, or filiform, capt P 
ate. Frm. FL. Sepals imbricate. Ovary 3-4-celled; styles connate d 
fleshy globose mass or cylindric toothed or lobed column; cells l-ovu ed, 
Capsule subglobose or depressed, dry or fleshy, of 3—4 2-valved cocci. Se i 
globose, sometimes 3-ribbed on one side, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; 
cotyledons broad, flat.—Species about 12, tropical, chiefly American. 
P. corniculata, Smith in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 4; nearly glabrong 
leaves oblong from a truncately cordate base caudate-acuminate toot! ie 
sepals 5, stamens 8, ovary 4-celled, style column obovoid, capsule grea PA 
depressed of 4 stellately spreading granulate cocci, each produced outwar ji 
mto a vertical green linear obtuse wing. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. io- 
773. Pterococcus glaberrimus, Hassk. in Flora 1842, Beibl. ii. 41. Hedrait 
stylus corniculatus, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 234. Sajorium corniculatum, 
Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 484. 
Sikkim HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft., Clarke. Upper Assam, Jenkins, Griffith 
TENASSERIM and MALACCA, Grifith (Kew Distrib. 4716).—DISTRIB. Java. Leaves 
Stem slender, tips of shoots and often the petioles appressed puberulous. omes 
3-8 in. membranous; petiole 1-3 in., 2-glandular at the apex. Male reels} 
1-14 in., very slender, glabrous ; bracts lanceolate, 3-fld., shorter than the pe 1 ip. 
calyx globose, j; in. diam. Fem. jl. } in. diam.; sepals lanceolate. Capsule diam. 
diam., crown nearly flat, wings nearly as long as the nucleus. Seeds 3-2 ded wit 
porgidly lenticular with a sharp keel all round ; testa crustaceous, pale, mottle 
rown, 
67. TRAGIA, Linn. 
D. . . irs» 
Perennial, usually climbing or twining herbs, hispid with stinging be , 
Leaves alternate, simple or palmately 3-loped, serrate, base often, T os 
3-5-plinerved. Flowers monacious in terminal axillary and leat-opp 
