466 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Tragia. 
3. T. burmanica, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 399; nearly glabrous, leaves 
broadly ovate abruptly acuminate subserrate base sinuate-cordate, fruiting 
sepals broadly ovate acute, stigma appressed to the hirsute woody capsules. 
MARTABAN ; east of Tounghoo, in forests, Kurz. . 
A large twining shrub, young parts appressed puberulous. Leaves 2-5 in. 
sparsely setose above; petiole 1-3 in. Racemes 2-6 in., puberulous. Fruiting sepals 
nearly 1 in. long, leafy. Capsule of 3 cocci each as large asa pea. Seeds velvety, 
mottled. 
68. CNESMONE, Blume. 
A climbing villous shrub. Leaves alternate, oblong from a broadly 
cordate base, toothed, 3-5-nerved and penninerved; stipules broad, per- 
sistent. Flowers monoecious, in terminal or leaf-opposed androgynous 
racemes, apetalous ; upper male, lower fem. 2-bracteolate. Disk 0. MALE 
FL. Calyx globose, valvately splitting in 3 broad lobes. Stamens 3, alternate 
with the lobes, hardly exserted, filaments stout free; anthers dorsifixed, 
connective thick produced into a reflexed lamina, cells separate sub- 
parallel. Pistillode obscure or 0. Frm. rr. Sepals 3, enlarging in fruit. 
Ovary short, 3-celled, strigose; styles or stigmatic lobes 3, fleshy, united 
at the base in a fleshy mass, incurved, fimbriate within; cells 1-ovuled. 
Seeds globose, testa crustaceous with a fleshy coat, albumen fleshy; coty- 
ledons broad, flat. 
C. javanica, Blume Bijd. 630 (by misprint ONESMOSA); Muell. ^n 
DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 926; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 399; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphord. 
458, t. 4, f£. 14-17. Tragia hastata, Reinwdt. in Hassk. Pl. Rar. 245. h 
mee Wall. Cat. 7794. T. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 7793.—Wall. Cat. 
4400. 
Sinner, Wallich. Kuasta Mrs, J. D. H. 4 T. T. Mrsuwr Hrx1s, in UPPER 
Assam, Griffith, BENGAL; at Dacca, Clarke. Matay PENINSULA and BURMA 
from Pegu to Malacca and Penang, Wallich, &c.—DisTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 
Evergreen, densely villously tomentose ; branches stout. Leaves 3-5 in» oblong 
or obovate-cordate, acuminate, tomentose on both surfaces; nerves 4-5 pair above 
the basal, nervules reticulate; petiole 4-14 in., stout ; stipules broadly ovate, acute. 
Racemes pubescent or tomentose, 1 in. long; bracts deciduous; male fl. 3 in. diam» 
pedicelled ; fem. larger, subsessile ; sepals velvety, broad, }—} in. long, fruiting 8$ long 
as the capsule, rhomboid-ovate, entire or crenate. Capsule hispid, of 3 cocci ene 
as large as a small pea. Cocci velvety. Seeds with a mottled testa. 
69. MEGISTOSTIGMA, Hook. f. 
A nearly glabrous twiner. Leaves alternate, petioled, elliptic, cuspidately 
acuminate, quite entire, triple-nerved. Flowers moncecious, in small axillary 
unisexual racemes, apetalous; males minute, fem. small. MALE FL. Caly? 
ovoid, 3-lobed to below the middle; tube obconic, lined with a thicker 
disk; lobes ovate, obtuse, valvate. Stamens 3, erect in the centre of ^ 
flower, filaments short thick; anthers triangular-ovate, obtuse, base te 
truded; cells narrow, adnate to the face of the thick connective, she 
introrse. Pistillode 0. Fw. FL. Calyx of 5 linear-lanceolate sepals, ra d 
enlarged in fruit. Disk 0. Ovary tridymous, depressed, densely hiret 
3-celled; style column very large, globose, contracted at the base, fory 
smooth, 3-lobed to the middle, lobes rounded connivent ; cells 1-0v0 5. 
Capsule depressed, tridymous, appressed-pubescent, of 3 2.valved wo 
cocci Seeds globose, testa mottled. 
