814 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEX® (HUTCHINSON). [ Aleurites, 
long, nearly glabrous; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, rather slender; bracts 
small. Male flowers: buds obovoid-ellipsoid, shortly acuminate, 3-4 lin. 
long, pubescent at the tip, otherwise glabrous. Calyx 2-lobed, divided 
more deeply on one side than the other, 4-5 lin. long; lobes ovate, 
pubescent at the tips. Petals spathulate-oblanceolate, rounded at the 
apex, nearly 1 in. long, 2-34 lin. broad, hairy on the inside of the claw, 
otherwise glabrous. Disk-glands subulate, glabrous, 14-2 lin. long. 
Stamens 10-11, in two series ; filaments very slightly hairy, those of 
the outer series connate for nearly half their length, } in. long, those 
of the inner series connate for two-thirds of their length, }-1 in. long; 
anthers ovoid, ? lin.long. Female flowers: Calyx and petals as in the 
males. Disk-segments triangular, subacute, about 1 lin. long, glabrous. 
Ovary oblong-ovoid, gradually passing into the styles, densely rusty- 
tomentose; styles 3, connate and hairy towards the base, $-in. long, 
bilobed. Ripe fruit not seen.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 724, partly; 
Hemsl. in Kew Bulletin, 1906, 120; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 
Jatroph. 132. A. Vernicia, Hassk. in Flora, 1842, ii. Beibl. 3, 40. 
A. japonica, Blume ex Mig. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 120. 
A, verniciflua, Baill. Hist. Pl. v. 116. Dryandra cordata, Thunb. Fi. 
Jap. 267, t. 27. D. oleifera, Lam. Encycel. ii. 829, not of Wall. Cat. 
D. Vernicia, Correa in Ann. Mus. Par. viii. 69, t. 32, fig. 1. Hla@ococea 
cordata, Blume, Bijdr. 618. #. verrucosa, A. Juss. Euphorb. Gen. Tent. 
t. 11, fig. 35. #. Vernicia, A. Juss. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 884 
(Eleococcus). Vernicia montana, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. ed. 1, ii. 587. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Chimoilo, Johnson, 36! 
Probably a native of Japan, Cochin China and the adjacent islands. 
2. A. triloba, Forst. Char. Gen. 112, t. 56. A large tree; 
branchlets scurfy stellate-puberulous, at length glabrous. Leaves 
entire, 3-5-lobed or rarely with a few coarse teeth, ovate or when lobed 
suborbicular in outline, truncate, rounded or slightly cordate at the 
base, 23-9 in. long, 2-5 in. broad, with 2 sessile rounded contiguous 
glands at the base, but none at the base of each sinus formed by the leaf- 
lobes, subchartaceous, digitately 3-5-nerved from the base, pubescent 
with stellate hairs on both surfaces when young, at length becoming 
glabrous; transverse nerves faint, more or less branched and not 
parallel ; petiole up to 6 in. long, shortly stellate-puberulous ; stipules 
deciduous. Cymes crowded at the apex of each shoot, densely stellate- 
tomentellous ; branches ascending ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long ; bracts small, 
Male flowers: buds ovoid, obtuse, about 1 lin. long, tomentellous. 
Calyx 2-lobed to the base ; segments broadly ovate, obtuse, 1} lin. long; 
1} lin. broad, stellate-puberulous outside. Petals spathulate-oblanceo- 
late, obtuse, 3 lin. long, scarcely 1 lin. broad, glabrous except for a few 
hairs on the inside at the base. Stamens about 20; outer filaments 
free, very short, the inner connate towards the base, all (with the 
receptacle) pubescent ; anthers} lin. long. Female flowers: Calyx - 
petals as in the male, but larger. Disk small, crenulate. Ovary Su) 
globose, tomentellous ; styles very short, erect, glabrous. Fruits (Pax) 
