24 Euphorbtace<2, [Phyllcwthus. 



A shrub, 2-4 ft., much branched ; bark pale brown ; young 

 parts glabrous; 1. numerous, large, i\-2h in., on very short 

 petioles, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, rounded or subcordatc at 

 base, attenuate, acute, rather thick, lat. veins wide-spreading, 

 reticulate, conspicuous ; stip. long, very acuminate ; male fl. 

 very small, solitary or in small clusters, on filiform ped., 

 fem. fl. much larger, on very long ped. thickened upwards, 

 in very lax terminal racemes ; bracts acicular ; male fl. : — sep. 4, 

 rotundate, entire ; disk of 2 large uniform scales ; stam. 4, fil. 

 connate below into a short thick column, anth. -cells confluent 

 with transverse dehiscence; fem. fl. : — sep, 6, oblong-oval, ob- 

 tuse, entire; disk large, dilated, 6-lobed; styles spreading, bifid; 

 fr. \ in., nearly globose, dry, smooth, cocci 2-seeded ; seeds 

 \ in. long. 



Moist region, 1-4000 ft.; rather rare. Hunasgiriya ; Hewaheta ; 

 Ambagamuwa ; Hiniduma. Fl. March, April, Aug. ; pale red. 



Endemic. 



A very well-marked species, easily recognised by its large ovate 

 leaves, pale and reticulately veined with white or purple beneath. 



Thwaites, by an oversight, refers Wight, Ic. t. 1904, f. 2 {Reidia lati- 

 folid) to this, which repiesents a very different plant. 



13. P. anabaptlzatus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 421 (1866). 

 Eptstyliutn zeylanicuin., Baill. Et. Euph. 648. E. polyphyllttm, Thw. 



Enum. 283. Reidia polyphylla, Wight, Ic. v. ii. 28. C. P. 432. 

 Fl. B. Ind. v. 302. Wight, Ic. t. 1904, f. 4. 



A shrub, 3 or 4 ft., with straight branches ; bark dark 

 brown ; branchlets very numerous, closely placed ; 1. small, 

 very numerous, closely inserted and overlapping, nearly sessile, 

 |—^ in. long, narrowly lanceolate-oblong, often slightly falcate 

 and oblique, obtuse or acute, glaucous beneath ; stip. acicular, 

 persistent, conspicuous ; fl. numerous, male often in short 

 bracteated axillary racemes, fem. solitary on ped. much ex- 

 ceeding 1., mostly at ends of branchlets ; male fl. : — sep. 4, 

 roundish, fimbriate; disk of 4 roundish glands; stam. 4, con- 

 nate, anth. with transverse dehiscence ; fem, fl. : — sep. 6, broadly 

 oval, fimbriate ; disk annular, slightly crenatc ; styles stout, 

 deeply cleft ; fr. very small, | in., 3-lobed, glabrous. 



Montane zone ; very rare. Banks of stream at Sita-gangula near 

 Adam's Peak, at 5000 ft. (Thwaites). Fl. Feb. ; reddish. 

 Endemic. 



14. P. oreophilus, Muell. Arg. in Linna-a, xxxii. 49 (1863). 

 Epistylium montanum, Ihw. Enum. 283. E. polyphyilufn, var., Thw. 



1. c. 428. C. P. 2148. 

 Fl. B. Ind. v. 303. 



