Claoxylon?^ EupJiorbiatece . 6^ 



on large glandular-pubescent terminal panicles, rather ex- 

 ceeding the 1.; bracts linear, leafy; male fl. numerous, 

 buds pointed, glandular; fern. fl. : — sep. very acute, reflexed^ 

 glandular; styles acute, united, deep crimson; fr. about 2 in., 

 more or less globose, beaked, red, thickly set with large 

 stalked spherical glands. 



Moist region below 2000 ft., very rare. Marai-kelai, Kandagama, 

 near Ratnapura ; Ambagamuvva. Fl. April ; crimson-red. 



Endemic. 



I have seen only the C. P. specimens of this remarkable plant, collected 

 in 1855, by Thwaites, who states that the aril of the seed has an agreeable 

 taste. 



33. CliAOXVliON, ^./z^jj-. 



Shrubs or herbs; 1. alt; fl. minute, usually dioecious, 

 apetalous, in long axillary racemes; malefl. : — cal. subglobose, 

 valvate, 3- or 4-partite; stam. 5-14, fil. distinct, often mixed 

 with stalked bodies, anthers erect, adnate to the top of the 

 fil.; pistillode o; fem. fl. : — sep. as in the male; disk of 3 

 linear petal-like scales; ov. 3-celled, with one ovule in each 

 cell, styles 3, not bifid, fringed ; fr. a small tricoccous capsule, 

 cocci nearly globose; seeds subglobose, estrophiolate, testa 

 crustaceous, endosperm fleshy, cotyledons broad. — Sp. 40 ; 

 15 \r\ Fl. B. Ind. 



Herb, 1. under 3 in r. C. Mercurialis. 



Shrub, 1. over 4 in 2. C. OLIGANDRUM. 



I. C. Mercurialis, Thw. Etium. 271 (1861). 



Burm. Thes. 205. Fl. Zeyl. n. 334. Tragia Merai7'taHs, L. Sp. PI. 

 980. Moon, Cat. 62. Micrococca Mercut talis, Benth., ex Trim. Syst. 

 Cat. 82. C. P. 3310. 



Fl. B. Ind. v. 412. Plukenet, Phytogr. t. 205, f 4. 



Annual, 12-18 in., erect, with few ascending branches, 

 glabrous; 1. numerous, spreading, i-2i in., lanceolate and 

 oval-lanceolate, acute at base, subacute at apex, serrate- 

 crenate, glabrous, thin; petiole h-i in., slender; racemes 

 numerous, very slender, usually longer than the 1.; fl. distinct, 

 few; male fl.: — stam. variable, usually 5-10; fem. fl. : — ov. 

 hairy; capsule very small, of 3 ovoid nearly distinct hairy 

 cocci. 



Low country, a common weed in cultivated ground. Fl. May, July. 

 Also in India, Burma, Arabia, Trop. Africa. 



The genus Micrococca, Benth., was rightly reduced by Thwaites to 

 Claoxylon. 



