Homonoia.'] Eupkorbiacecs. 7 1 



1. very large, 9-12 in., broadly ovate, peltate with a round 

 base, acuminate, acute or caudate, entire, glabrous, dark green 

 above, pale beneath, venation prominent beneath, translucent ; 

 petiole very long, usually longer than leaf, cylindrical, glabrous ; 

 stip. large, ovate, acuminate, reflexed, soon falling ; male 

 panicles numerous, finely pubescent ; bracts broader than 

 long, toothed ; fem. panicles shorter and simpler ; male fl. 

 very small; stam. 2-5 ; fem. fl. : — ov. i -celled, exserted, densely 

 glandular, styles large, lateral, peltate; fr. small, \ in., globose, 

 glabrous, but warted with glands. 



Moist region up to 3000 ft.; very common. Fl. Oct.; greenish. 



Also in S. India on the western side. 



Wight's two names, tomentosa and Roxburghu, are printed on one 

 page, but the former name comes first there. There are specimens from 

 Koenig in Mus. Brit. 



3. m. dig-yna, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 1007 (1866). Otai 

 CS-al-ota, S. 



Claoxyloji cii£ynum,Wight, Ic. v. 2, 23. Rottlera digyna, Thw. Enum. 

 273. C. P. 2109. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 453. Wight, Ic. t. 1884. 



A small tree with slender branches; bark yellow; young 

 parts glabrous ; 1. rather small, 3-5 in., lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, not peltate, rounded at base, attenuate-acuminate, 

 acute, entire or slightly undulate at margin, glabrous, dotted 

 with numerous minute glands beneath ; petiole 1-2 in., slender ; 

 stip. J in., subulate, caducous; male spikes numerous, axillary, 

 very slender; male fl.: — sep. 3; stam. 10-14; fem. fl,: — sep. 4, 

 acute, pubescent ; ov. 2-celled, glandular ; styles very long, 

 I in.; fr. small, | in., didymous; cocci globose, almost distinct, 

 glabrous. 



Low country; rare. Kalutara (Moon) ; Pelawatte; Kurunegala. Fl. 

 Sept. ; yellow. 

 Endemic. 



M. depressa, Muell. Arg., a Javan and Bornean species, is given for 

 Ceylon in DC. Prod. 1. c. 989, on the authority of a specimen of Thun- 

 berg's in Herb. Upsala. Not in Brit. Mus. ; probably an error of label. 



Zl. KOl^IONOZA, Lour. 

 A shrub ; 1. linear, covered entirely with minute scales 

 beneath ; fl. dioecious, apetalous, in axillary spikes ; male 

 globose, sep. 3, valvate ; stam. numerous, in dense globose 

 heads, fil, in bundles, anth. -cells divaricate; pistillode o; fem. 

 fl. : — sep. 5-8, narrow, imbricate, caducous ; ov. 3-celled, with 

 one ovule in each cell ; styles 3, simple, papillose ; fr. very 



