Biachia.] EupIiorbiacecT. 53 



Var. /3, minor, Thw. Enuin. 278. O. minor, Muell. Arg. 1. c. Trigo- 

 nosiemon zeylanicus, Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 1106. C. P. 2158. 



A shrub or small tree; fl. fruit and all parts much smaller. 



Forests of the moist region, up to 4000 ft. ; rather common. Var. j8, 

 below 1000 ft. ; common. Kaiutara (Moon). Fl. Feb. and Oct. ; yellow. 



Also in Travancore and the Wyraad, S. India. 



A very handsome tree. The flowers are strongly sweet-scented. The 

 adherent petals simulate a campanulate gamopetalous corolla. Var. /3 

 has a different aspect, and may be, as considered by Mueller, a distinct 

 species. 



24. BX.ACHIA, Baill. 

 Shrub; 1. entire, shining; fl. moncecious, on long ped., male 

 in racemose umbels, fem. usually in threes; male fl.: — sep. 

 4 or 5, membranous, imbricate; pet. 4 or 5, much smaller, 

 hyaline; disk of 4 or 5 scales; stam. about 15, on a convex 

 receptacle, anth.-cells marginal; pistillode o; fem. fl.: — sep. 

 4 or 5, unequal, imbricate in bud, becoming slightly enlarged 

 in fruit; pet. o; disk obscure; ov. 3-celled, with one ovule in 

 each cell, styles 3, filiform, deeply bifid; fr. small, 3-lobed, of 

 3 2-valved cocci, supported on persistent sep. ; seeds oblong, 

 testa crustaceous, shining, endosperm fleshy, cotyledons 

 broad, flat. — Sp. 5 ; all in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. umbellata, Baill. Et. Euphorb. 387 (1858). Kosatta, S. 



Thw. Enum. 277. Codiceum umbellatian, Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 11 18. 

 C. P. 3014. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 402. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. t. 23, f. 6. Wight, Ic. t. 

 1874 {Croton umbellatum). 



Shrub or small tree; branches slender, dichotomous; bark 

 smooth, finely lenticellate, young parts glabrous; 1, numerous, 

 2\-\\ in., oval, acute at base ; slightly acuminate, glabrous 

 and shining, dark green; petiole very short, curved; infl. on 

 long terminal peduncles, ped. of male long, filiform, of fem., 

 stout, thickened upwards; sep. in male rounded, in fem, 

 acute; fr. under \ in., glabrous, lobes very bluntly keeled; 

 seeds oblong, testa shining, mottled. 



Moist region, below 1000 ft., and especially on the coast ; common. 

 Fl. Nov., Dec. ; green. 



Also in S. India. 



I cannot distinguish B. calycina, Benth., to which are referred in Fl. 

 r>. Ind. some specimens from Ceylon in Rottler's Herb. Wight's figure 

 above quoted is also referred to it in Fl. B. Ind., and this appears to 

 represent the common Ceylon plant. The Ceylon specimens also in 

 Herb. Rottl. labelled by Sir J. Hooker ' Blachia calycina, G. B.,' do not 

 appear to me to differ from B. umbellata. 



