68 Etiphorbiacece. \cieidion. 



densely pubescent outside; fern. fl. on long ped. ; ov. nearly 

 always 2-celled, styles short, plumose; capsule nearly ^ in., 

 densely covered with stellate tomentum, valves caducous; 

 seeds black. 



Intermediate and moist region to 2000 ft. ; rather rare. Nalande ; 

 Haragama ; Ekiriankumbura ; Peradeniya. Fl. Jan. - March, Sept. ; 

 greenish-yellow. 



India, Burma, Malaya, China, New Caledonia. 



8. BE. philippinensls, Muell. Arg. in Linn, x.xxiv. 196 (1865). 

 K amp aril a, .S'. Kapila, T. 



Croton punciatus., Retz. Obs. v. 30. C. coccineus, Vahl, Symb. Bot. 

 ii. 97. Rottlera tinctoria^ Roxb.; Moon, Cat. 70; Thw. Enum. 273. 

 C. P. 2103. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 442. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 289. Benth. and Trim. Med. 

 PI. t. 236. 



A moderate-sized tree, much branched ; bark smooth ; 

 young parts scurfy with fulvous pubescence ; 1. variable, ovate- 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 3-7 in., rounded or acute at 

 base, subacute, entire, glabrous when mature, rather stiff, 

 strongly 3-nerved with veins prominent beneath, pale or 

 white and thickly sprinkled with minute crimson glands on 

 lower surface; petiole i-\\ in., cylindrical, fulvous-pubescent, 

 with 2 very small sessile glands at summit ; fl. small, male in 

 clusters, sessile in erect terminal spikes, which are usually 

 several together and often longer than 1., buds globose ; fern, 

 fl. stalked, in short racemes ; male fl. : — cal. densely rusty- 

 pubescent ; stam. numerous, much exserted ; fem. fl. : — ov. 

 glandular, styles simple, papillose ; fr. \ in., lobes rounded, 

 smooth, but covered with a scurf of minute, easily detached, 

 deep red particles ; seeds nearly globose, black. 



Low country to about 2500 ft. in both moist and dry regions ; rather 

 common. Fl. Aug. 



India, Burma, Malaya, China, Australia. 



The powder of the seeds is medicinally used as an anthelmintic in 

 cases of tape worm, and in the cure of itch. The bark is used as a 

 tanning material. The capsules yield a dye giving a permanent, rich, 

 flame colour. 



Ca'lodiscus T]ntnbe7'gia7tus^ Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 758, is 

 founded on a plant in the Upsala Herbarium without female flowers or 

 fruit, collected in Ceylon by Thunberg. It is probably a species of 

 Mallotus, and possibly a variety of M. rhamnifoUtts. Thunberg collected 

 only on the road from Colombo to Matara, a locality perhaps more 

 thoroughly searched for plants than any other part of Ceylon. 



35. CIiSIDZON, ni. 



Small glabrous trees; 1. nearly entire; fl. dioecious, apetalous, 

 male in spikes, fem. solitary, larger ; male fl. : — sep. 3 or 4, 



