6o EupJiorbiacecB , [Trewiai 



bracts large, very concave, pubescent, fimbriate, with numerous 

 setaceous teeth ; capsule concealed by bracts, glabrous, nearly 

 white. 



Dry country, rather rare. Uma-oya ; Tissamaharama, abundant j 

 Batticaloa. Fl. Dec. -March ; greenish. 

 India, Arabia, Tropical Africa. 



29. ADX:N0CK]:.H:NA, Boiv. cx Baill. 



A shrub; 1, alt. with stip; fl. monoecious, male numerous, 

 densely clustered, fern, few at base of same infl. ; male fl. : — 

 cal. globose, segm. 4 or 5, obtuse, valvate ; stam. 4 or 5, dis- 

 tinct; disk o; pistillodc columnar ; fem. fl. much larger; per.- 

 segm. 6, linear, acute, persistent, enlarged, and pectinately 

 multifid in fr. ; ov. 3-celled, with i ovule in each cell, styles 

 very large, deeply 3-cleft, with the arms copiously laciniate ; 

 capsule 3-lobed, slightly depressed, surrounded by the pec- 

 tinate sepals ; seeds subglobose, testa crustaceous, marbled. — 

 Sp. 4 or 5 ; 3 in /7. B. Ind. 



The only Ceylon species is, I think, a good endemic genus {Cetttro- 

 siylis, Baill.). 



I. A. Zeylanica, Thw.Enutn. 270 (1861). [Plate LXXXV'.] 

 Centrostylis zeylanica, Baill. Et. Gen. Euphorb. 470. Cephalocrototi zey- 

 lanicus, Baill.; Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 419. C. P. 396 (2 in). 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 419. Baill. Et. Gen. Euphorb. 470, t. 2, f. 28, 29. 



An erect slightly branched bush, rough on the young 

 parts, hoary with minute stellate hairs ; 1. 3-5 in., narrowly 

 ovate, rounded at base, elongate-acuminate, acute at apex, 

 entire, slightly rough with stellate hair, especially beneath; 

 petiole i- 1 in.; stip. subreniform, deciduous; fl. shortly stalked, 

 crowded in short terminal or leaf-opposed stalked racemes, 

 the male crowded at top, the fem. few at base, buds of male 

 fl. globose ; ped. and per. densely stellate-tomentose ; fruiting 

 per. segm. | in., much exceeding capsule, pectinate, branches 

 filiform - setaceous, thickened at the tips, purple ; capsule 

 stellate - pubescent ; seeds subglobose, J in. diam., brown 

 marbled with black. 



Montane zone, 3000 5000 ft., rare. Pusselawa; Hantane; Haputala; 

 Ella Pass. Fl. May, .Sept ; styles red. 

 Endemic. 



30. TREWZA, Linn. 



A tree; 1. opp., entire; fl. moderate-sized, apetalous,. 



dioicious, in axillary pendulous racemes, male numerous, fem» 



