Agynez'a.] EuphorbiacecE . 1 5 



bifid; fern. fl. : — cal.-segm. and pet. as in male; disk lobed, 

 yellow; staminodes o; ov. depressed-globose, styles short, 

 thick, divaricate, bifid; fr. \-i\ in., on longish stalks, de- 

 pressed, seated on persistent cal. and pet., 3-lobed, dark 

 green. 



Moist region, up to 6000 ft. ; rather common. Kalutara (Moon) ; 

 Colombo ; Weligama, &c., in Pasdun Korale ; Medamahanuwara ; 

 Dolosbagie ; Elephant Plains ; Hakgala. Fl. Sept.-Dec. ; pale green, 

 pet. white, disk yellowish. 



Hills of India, Burma, Andaman Is., Java. 



Extremely variable in size and shape of leaves. It is frequently 

 .monoecious, and thus the principal character for A. zeylanica fails. 



6. AGVNBZA, Vent. 



Annual, with prostrate stems and fleshy 1. ; fl. moncecious, 

 dichlamydeous, axillary, fem. much larger than male; male 

 fl.: — sep. and pet. combined to form a flat thickened viscous 

 perianth, segm. 6; stam. 3, connate into a short column, anth. 

 minute, capitate, sessile; pistillode o; fem. fl. : — sep. 3, distinct; 

 pet. 3, similar; ov. truncate, 3-celled with 2 ovules in each cell, 

 styles 3, sunk in the top of the ovary, deeply bifid; fr. small, 

 splitting into 3 two-seeded cocci; seeds slender, curved, 

 hilum long, endosperm fleshy, embryo curved, cotyledons 

 broad flat. — Sp. 2; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



A. bacciformis, A. Jiiss. Tent. Enphorb. 24 (1824). Bt- 

 pilawakka, S. 



Thw. Enum. 283. C. P. 2130. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 285. Wight, Ic. t. 1893 (not good). Baill. Et. Gen. 

 Euph. t. 24, f. 10-14. 



Annual, with a large tap-root and many prostrate or 

 ascending, much-branched, angular, glabrous stems ; 1. small, 

 \-\ in., nearly sessile, oval-oblong, obtuse, sometimes apicu- 

 late, fleshy, glaucous; stip. minute, ovate, acute; fl. on short 

 filiform ped., axillary, male minute, female much larger; 

 bracts acicular; male fl. : — perianth much thickened except at 

 margin, segm. rounded, denticulate; anth. adnate; fem. fl. — 

 sep. ovate, acute, imbricate; pet. rather smaller; ov. clavate, 

 thickened upwards, bluntly trigonous, flat-topped, styles 

 spreading; fr. seated on persistent sep. and pet., ovate- 

 ovoid, truncate. 



Sandy seashores ; common. Fl. Jan. ; pale green. 

 Coasts of India, Java, Mauritius. 



