74 Euphorbiacecc . \Chatocarpus. 



Very variable in foliage. Mueller makes 3 varieties — ellipticnm^ 

 hi7iceolaiuin, and spathiilaium — but (as observed in Fl. B. Ind.) they are 

 not to be distinguished. C. P. 252 is Thwaites's var. /3, with smaller 

 flowers and much smaller leaves, often very narrow, and with spines 

 along the edge. I do not find the 1. pellucid-punctate, as stated in the 

 generic characters given in Fl. B. Ind. 



40. CKSITOCAIIPUS, Thw. 

 Trees; 1. entire, coriaceous; fl. small, dioecious, apetalous, 

 in axillary clusters ; male fl. : — sep. 4 or 5, imbricate ; disk a row 

 of glands or scales; stam. 8, fil. connate below in a column; 

 pistillode a 3-fid. column; fem. fl. : — sep. of male; ov. 3-celIed, 

 with I ovule in each cell; style 3-partite; capsule nearly 

 globose, woody, 3-valved, warted or prickly, valves leaving 

 a woody axis; seeds subglobose, black, with a red caruncle, 

 endosperm copious, cotyledons broad. — Sp. 8; 3 in FL B. Ind. 

 The genus is unknown in Peninsular India. 



Capsule with rigid prickles. 



L. glabrous, under 4 in i. C. CASTANOCARPUS. 



L. hairy, over 4 in 2. C. PUBESCENS. 



Capsule with tubercles 3. C. CORIACEUS. 



1. C castanocarpus, Thw. Enuin. 275 (i86t). H^doka, 

 K^dawaka, .S. 



Herm. Mus. 25. Burm. Thes. 195. Fl. Zeyl. n. 434. Edokkc, Gaertn. 

 Fruct. ii. 486. Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 1122. C. pu/igcns, Thw. in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. vi. 301 (in part). C. P. 2641. 



Fl. B. Ind. v. 460. Gaertn. Fruct. ii. t. 180, f. 7. Kew Journ. Bot. vi. 

 t. 10, f. A, 2-5. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 284. 



A tree; twigs slender; young parts glabrous; 1. 2^-4?, in., 

 oval or ovate-oval, tapering to base, acuminate, acute, entire, 

 glabrous, rather thick ; petiole short ; fl. on short ped., clusters 

 globose; male fl. : — sep. 4, rounded, concave; disk a rim of 

 small red glands; stam. 8, fil. united halfway up in a column; 

 capsule oblong-globose, | in., valves woody, densely covered 

 with acicular rigid prickles, bright red; seeds black. 



Moist region below 2000 ft. ; rather rare. Ambagamuwa and Ratna- 

 pura districts frequent ; Hewesse, Pasdun Korale. Fl. Dec-March. 



E. Bengal, Burma, Andaman Is., Malay Peninsula. 



Hermann's specimens are in young fruit, and Linn;cus did not refer 

 them to any genus. 



Timber very hard. Leaves dry, dark brown, 



2. C. pubescens, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. v. 461 (1887). 



C. castanflcarpus, \ar. ^, pubescens., Thw. Enum. 275. C. P. 3013. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 461. 



A small tree; twigs and young parts hirsute-pubescent; 1. 

 large, 6-10 in., hairy-pubescent beneath, oblong-oval, shortly 



