56 EuphorbiaceCE. {Chrozopkora^ 



base in lax \^xy elongated racemes, often exceeding 1.; sep. 4, 

 short, rounded, rcflexed ; ov. pubescent, styles stout, very 

 shortly bifid ; capsule about i in., glabrous. 



Moist region, below 1000 ft. ; very rare. Near Marai-Kalai; Kundu- 

 gama ; Eknaligoda; Ratnapura Dist. Fl. April. 

 Endemic. 

 The foliage is very handsome. 



3. A. long-ifolia, Bcnth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 303 (1880). B^ru, .*^. 

 SarcocUniiini Iflngt/olttini, Wight ; Thw. Enum. 279. Muell. Arg. in 

 DC. I.e. 727. C. P.*596. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 407. Wight, Ic. tt. 1887-8. 



A shrub ; branches stout, marked with scars of petioles 

 and stip. ; young parts glabrous, resinous ; 1. numerous, crowded 

 at end of branches, usually 4-9 in. (occasionally much longer, 

 up to 2 ft.), obovate-oblong, attenuate at base into obscure 

 petiole, very shortly acuminate, obtuse, entire, glabrous, very 

 stiff and leathery ; stip. short, broad, acute, caducous ; fl. in 

 lax spicate racemes, shorter than 1., male in clusters of 1-4 

 in axil of single bract, fem. fewer, more lax, on longer ped., 

 solitary; male fl. : — sep. 2 or 3 ; pet. 5, small; disk-glands 

 large ; stam. about 10 ; fem. fl. : — sep. 5 ; pet 5 ; disk very 

 large, lobed ; styles spreading ; capsule small, § in., glabrous ; 

 seeds globose. 



Montane zone, 3-600 ft., common. Fl. Feb., March, and .Sept. 

 Also in S. India and Malay Peninsula. 



The stifif, hard, leathery leaves are used for roofing dwellings, like 

 shingles, and are remarkably durable ; young shoots resinous. 



27. CHBOZOPKOBA, A'eck. 



Annual, covered with stellate hairs ; fl. monoecious, in 

 axillary racemes ; male fl. : — cal. globose, segm. 5, valvate ; 

 pet. 5 ; disk obscure; stam. 12-15, ^1- connate; pistillode o; 

 fem. fl. : — cal. and pet. of the male ; ov. densely stellate-tomen- 

 tose, 3-celled, with I ovule in each cell, styles 3, bifid ; fr. a 

 tricoccous capsule, hispidly tomentose with stellate hair ; 

 seeds nearly globose, testa rough, shining, endosperm fleshy, 

 cotyledons broad, flat. — Sp. 6; 3 in //. />. Ind. 



I. C. plicata, A.Juss. Tent. Eitf>/iorb. 28 (1824). 

 C. I\oUlen\ A. Juss. ; Thw. Elnum. 443. C. P. 3854. 

 V\. 15. Ind. V. 409. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 62, f. 1. (poor.) 



Annual herb; stems prostrate, stout, divaricately branched, 

 covered, especially when young, with stellate hairs ; 1. numerous, 

 i-i^ in., spreading, rotundate-ovate, usually acute at base,' 



