72 EtlpJlOrbiaCecr. [Dalechampia, 



small, 3-COCCOUS ; seeds ovoid, testa crustaceous, with a thin 

 fleshy coat, endosperm fleshy, cotyledons broad. — Sp. 3 or 4; 

 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



K. riparia, Lour. FI. CochhicJi. 637 (1790). 

 SpathiostOHon javensc, Thw. Enum. 272 (non Bl.). C. P. 651. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 455. Wight, Ic. t. 1868 {Adelia 7icriifol:a). Bedd. For. 

 Fr. t. xxiv. f. I. 



A shrub ; branches erect, stout, rigid ; young parts pubes- 

 cent; 1. numerous, all closely placed, 3-6 in., linear, gradually 

 tapering into a very short petiole, acute, entire, glabrous 

 above, whitish beneath, and copiously dotted with minute 

 circular scales; fl. sessile ; spikes numerous, shorter than 1.; 

 bracts acuminate ; male sep. glabrous ; fem. sep. hairy, very 

 acute ; ov. densely pubescent ; capsule puberulous ; seeds 

 globose, yellow. 



Low country, and up to 4000 ft. on banks of rivers and streams;: 

 rather common, often submerged. 



Mahaweli at Peradeniya, &c. ; Bintenne; Dimbula. Fl. August. 



S. India, E. Bengal, Burma, Cochin China, Andaman Is., Java. 



Habit of a willow. 



Ricmtis communis^ L., Etidaru, S., Chiitamanakku, T., the Castor-oil 

 plant, is an abundant weed in all parts of the island, though but little 

 cultivated. It is n. 339 of Linna,'us's Fl. Zeyl. Though now spread 

 through all tropical and warm temperate countries, it is thought to be 

 African in origin. 



38. DAZ.ECKAMFZA, L. 



Stem twining; 1. alt., 3 foliolate; fl. clustered, monoecious,, 

 apetalous, involucrate, male and fem. together mixed with 

 fleshy scales; invol. bracts large; male fl. : — sep. 4-6, valvate, 

 membranous; stam. 20-30, united in a column or bundle on 

 a convex receptacle ; pistillode o; fem. fl.: — sep. 5-12, narrow, 

 laciniate; ov. 3-4-cclled, ovules one in each cell, styles slender, 

 confluent in a column, stigma dilated ; capsule of three 2- 

 valved cocci; seeds globose, mottled, estrophiolate, endosperni 

 fleshy, cotyledons broad. — Sp. about 60 ; 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



D. indica, Wight, Ic. v. 2, 23 (1852). 



D. bidentata, Thw. Enum. 270 (non Bl.). D. kr/taia, var. zcyhmicoy 

 Muell. Arg. 1. c. 1241. C. P. 2170. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 467. Wight, Ic. t. 1882. 



Stem slender, twining, finely pubescent ; 1. trifoliolatc ; 

 petiole !-3 in., very slender; Iflts. acuminate, membranous, 

 pubescent, terminal ovate-oblong, lateral dilated and some- 

 times lobulatc at the base; stip. and stipell., lanceolate; invoU 



