62 E^lphorbiacece. {Podadenia. 



serrate, membranous, from entire to deeply 3-fid or 3-partite^ 

 with irrct^ularl}' serrate or subpinnatifid lobes; petiole long 

 or short; racemes 1-2 in., with man}' male and few fern, fl., 

 slender; male fl. shortly pedicelled ; fcm. fl. strigosely 

 hispid; sep. rigid, entire or pinnatifid, stellately spreading, 

 and \ in. diam. in fr. ; ov. hispid, style columnar, variable in 

 length; capsule \ in, diam,, more or less hispid; seeds globose. 



Van /3, cordata, Mtcell. Arg. in DC. I. c. 943. Var /3, mojitana, Thw^ 

 Enum. 270. T. inontana, Muell. Arg. 1. c. 944. C. P. 2100, 3519. 



L. ovate-cordate, cuspidately acuminate, coarsely serrate. 



Var. 7, cannabina, Hk. f. T. caiinabina, L. f. ; Thw. Enum. 270. 

 Var. e, intermedia, Muell. Arg. 1. c. 944. C. P. 3569. Pluk. Phytogr. 

 t. 120, f. 6. 



L. all palmately 3-partitc, with narrow, toothed, or pinna- 

 tifid segments. 



Waste ground in low country, common. Var. /3 in montane zone ; 

 Hantane ; N. Eliya. Var. 7, dry region only ; Anuradhapura ; Mineri. 

 Fl. Feb., March. 



India, Burma, China. 



Very variable in habit and in form of leaf It stings sharply. 



32. PODADENZA, T/iw. 



A large tree; 1. entire, penninerved; fl. dioecious, apeta- 

 lous, in large terminal panicles; male fl. globose; sep. 3, 

 valvate; stam. over 20, distinct; no pistillode; fem. fl.: — sep. 

 3-5, imbricate; ov. exserted, strigose, 3-celled, with one ovule 

 in each cell, styles 3, long, filiform, undivided, twisted; fr. 

 large, fleshy, indehiscent, covered with large stalked glandular 

 processes; seeds usually only 2 or i, each completely en- 

 veloped in a fleshy white aril, testa bony, grey, endosperm 

 copious. — Monotypic. 



The only genus of Euphorbiacecc confined to Ceylon. 



P. sapida, Thw. Enum. 274 (1861). 



Rotticra Thwaitesii, Baill. Et. Gen. Euphorb. 426. P. Thwaitcsii, 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. I. c. 791- C. P. 3428. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 423. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 282. 



A large tree; branchlets stout, fulvous-tomcntose; young 

 parts silky tomentose; 1. 5-9 in., oval, acute at base, very 

 shortly acuminate, acute, entire, glabrous above, except on the 

 veins, more or less hairy beneath on the veins; petiole i-\\ in., 

 stout, tomentose; fl. pedicelled; male in clusters; fem. solitary. 



