828 DiOFXiA icosANDRiA. Rotllera. 



3. R. peltata. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves long-petioled, cordate, peltate, acu- 

 minate, downy. Racemes terminal, and lateral, solitary. Cap- 

 sules covered with villous filaments. 



Seergoollua, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it grows 

 to be a middling sized tree. It flowers in April and May, and 

 the seed ripens in August. 



Young shoots clothed with much pretty long,soft, light gray, 

 diverging pubescence. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, sub- 

 cordate, peltate, long ensiform-pointed, three-nerved, downy 

 on both sides ; from four to eight inches long, by three to six 

 broad. Stipules subulate, villous. Racemes terminal, and la- 

 teral, solitary, simple, longer than the leaves, male and female 

 alike in form and size, but on difl'erent trees. Calyx in both 

 four or five-cleft; se</mew^s lanceolate, downy. Corolnone. Sta- 

 mina in the male numerous ; in the female none. Germ three- 

 lobed, filamentose, three-celled ; ou?</a solitary, attached to the 

 middle of the axis. Styles three fourths three-cleft, segments 

 hairy. Stigmas simple. Capsules depressed, three-lobed, of 

 the size of a small gooseberry, covered with pretty long, hairy 

 filaments, three-celled, six-valved, opening from the apex. 

 Seed solitary, globular, of the size of a grain of black pepper. 

 Integuments single, hard, pretty thick, but brittle, of a chesnut- 

 brown colour, and highly polished. Perisperm conform to the 

 seed, white, hard and waxy. Embryo transverse. Cotyledons 

 two, oval, three-nerved. Radicle on the outside, opposite to 

 the umbilicus, or attachment of the seed to the upper end 

 of the axis. This position differs from every other of this or- 

 der, (Euphorbia) of Jussieu, which 1 have yet examined. 



4. R.J'erruginea. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves alternate, from cordate to deeply three- 

 lobed, clothed with ferruginous, stellate pubescence under- 

 neath. Panicles terminal. Capsules tricoccous, villous. 



Tanarius minor. Rumph. Amh. m.p. 190. 



