Excecaria.] ^ OXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 47,5 
Leaves 6-8 by 2-22 in., thinly coriaceous, glossy above, base more or less acute, 
nerves 16-20 pair slender, slightly arched; petiole 3 in., eglandular. Male spikes 
4-5 in., pedicelled, rachis very slender, flowers scattered, sessile ; sepals of male free, 
base auricled, insertion very small. Fem. ft. solitary, terminal, pedicelled, with a large 
basal gland on each side. Ovary 3-celled, ovoid, narrowed into a short robust style 
with 3 subulate recurved stigmas. Fruit {pedicelled, berried, subumbilicate, 6-grooved, 
of 3 cocci, size of a small apple. Seed subglobose.— This is named FZ. oppositifolia, 
Griffith, by himself in his herbarium. I have seen no specimens but his and Wallich's. 
In Kurz's E. oppositifolia the flowers are shortly pedicelled, males several in each 
bract; male spikes robust and fruit the size of a cherry. See under crenulata for 
the erroneous quotation of Jack as the authority for this species. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
ExcccARIA? Larut, Perak, alt. 2-3500 ft. (Herb. Hort. Bot. Calcutt., 
No. 2344) ; a shrub 8-12 ft. quite glabrous, branches terete, leaves membranous 
4-6 in. ovate-lanceolate acuminate margin slightly waved, base acute or rounded, 
nerves very many slightly arched, petiole 4—4 in. slender, capsules sessile clustered in 
the leaf-axils } in. diam, 2-3-dymous, cocci globose quite smooth. 
74. SEBASTIANIA, Spreng. 
Shrubs, rarely (the Indian species) a herb. Leaves alternate, penni- 
nerved. Flowers moncecious, in terminal axillary and lateral slender 
racemes, apetalous; males minute, 1-3 in each bract; females solitary or 
at the base of the raceme. Disk 0. Mate FL. Calyz minute, membranous, 
unequally 5-lobed or -partite. Stamens 2-4, filaments short free or nearly so ; 
anther-cells distinct, contiguous, parallel. Pistillode 0. Frm. FL. Calyx 
3-lobed or -partite. Ovary exserted, 3-celled; styles free or connate at the 
base, entire, revolute or spreading; cells l-ovuled. Capsule globose, of 3 
cocci separating from a columella, endocarp crustaceous. Seeds oblong or 
subglobose, strophiolate, testa smooth, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, 
flat. —Species 40, all American but the following, and another which is 
American and African. 
S. Chamelea, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1175; annual, 
glabrous, leaves linear obtuse finely serrulate, racemes very short, cocci 
with two dorsal rows of spinules. Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 151. Miero- 
stachys Chamælea, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 49; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FT. 
228. Cnemidostachys Chameelea, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 835. Stilhngia 
Chamelea & asperococca, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 516, 517. Exccecaria 
Cham:elea, Baill. Adans. vi. 323. Cnemidostachys linearifolia, Miquel Fi. 
Ind. Bat. Suppl. 460. Elachocroton asperococcus, Ferd. Muell. in Hook. 
Journ..Bot. ix. (1857) 17. Tragia Chamelea, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1391; Grah. Cat. 
Bomb. Pl. 186; Wall. Cat. 7797. 
BEHAR ; at Dunwah, J. D. H.; Hazaribagh, &c., Clarke. DECCAN PENINSULA, 
from Bombay southwards. Burma, Maracca and SINGAPORE, Wallich, Grifith, 
Maingay. CEYLON, common.—DIsTRIB. China, Malay Islands, Tropical Australia 
an rica. . 
Stems usually many from the root, ascending 1-2 ft., slender, grooved ribbed or 
terete, dichotomously branched, Leaves 1-3 in. by }-} in., base acute ; petiole 1573 in., 
Very slender. Male spikes axillary or leaf-opposed; bracts minute, acute with a 
large often stipitate gland on each side, 1-2-füd. Fem. fi. usually solitary at the 
base of the male, or lateral on the branches. Sepals minute, of the male ovate, 
acute, ciliate ; of the fem. the larger, obovate, acute, lacerate and ciliate, 2-glan- 
ular within. Capsule subglobosely oblong, thinly crustaceous, i-i in. diam. Seed 
