604 CXV. EUPHORBIACEvE. 



testa crustaceoiis ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Distrib. 

 Species 3 or 4, South Iiidian and Malayan. 



1. Dimorphocalyx Lawianus, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 5 (1887) 

 p. 404. A small or middle-sized tree. Leaves 3-7 by l|^-3 in.,elliptic- 

 lauceolate, obtuse or obtusely acuminate (rarely subacute), glabrous, 

 reticulately veined, dark-green above, paler beneath, base usually acute ; 

 petioles -^-h in. long ; stipules small, triangular. Flo\\ ers dioecious 

 (rarely monoecious), the males usually solitary on the old wood, shortly 

 pedicellate, the females solitary or 2-3 together on long pedicels, with 

 usually a small bract on the pedicel. Male flowers : calyx i in. long, 

 open in bud, with 5 (rarely 4) shallow distant rounded lobes about 

 J^ in. long. Petals 5 (rarely 4), | by § in., oblong, obtuse. Staminal- 

 column I in. high, on a hairy receptacle; stamens 10-\A {Beddome), 

 often 11 in 2 rows of 5 each and a terminal one, the filaments of the 

 outer row connate at the base, the free portion about ,'y in. long, those 

 of the second series connate into a column, the free portion very short 

 scarcely -^^ in. long, the uppermost solitary stamen with a filament 

 y^y in, long. FiaiALE eloavers : calyx divided almost to the base; 

 sepals in fruit reaching | by | in. or more, variable in size and shape, 

 often unequal, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, parallel-nerved and 

 I'eticulately veined. Disk aunidar, hairy. Ovary ovoid, densely hairy ; 

 styles g in. long, connate at the very base, each deeply divided into 2 

 branches, the branches again 2-fid at the apex. Ca])sules ^ in. in diam., 

 globose, hairy, 3-lobed. Seeds f| by |- in., ellipsoid, yellowish mottled 

 with brown." Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 371; 

 Talb. Trees, Bondj. ed. 2, p. 313, ? Croton ramifornm. Grab. Cat. 

 p. 182, Trii/onosfemon Lavjianus, Muell, Arg. in Limia^a, v. 34 (1805) 

 p, 212 ; Bed'd, Flor. Sylvat. t. 273 (exclud. syn,),— Flowers Mar.-Oct. 



Dahell witliout locality in Herb. Kew. Konk.an : Lriw\; Matheraii, Coolcl, 

 H. M. Ilirdwood. Deccan : Ivliaiidala, Woodrow] Kanaka: Southern Glials between 

 Nilkund and Gairsoppa, Talhot. — Di.sthib. India (W. Peninsula). 



This plant seems to bo scarcely distinct from Dimorphncali/x qlahcliiis, Tliwaites, 

 from which it differs chiefly in tlie greater size of its parts. I have examined several 

 (.5 or 0) male flowers and have not found If) stamens in any of them, 11 in 2 rows of 

 a each, with an odd one at top, bcinfi; tlie usual complement. The sepals are very 

 vai-iable in size and shape and arc not always unequal. 



Trinien (Fl. Ceyl. 1. c.) alludes to tlie variableness of C. cilahcllin^ and slates that 

 tlie difference in appearance between tlic male and female plants has sometimes led to 

 their being collected as separate species. • 



23. AGROSTISTACHYS, Dalzell. 



Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, usually 

 very long, petiolate or subsessile, entire, serrate or sinuate, peiniinerved. 

 Flowers dioicious, in axillary or supra-axillary bracfeate racemes or 

 si)ikes, the males solitary or in small clusters within each bract, the 

 female solitary, Male eloweus: Calyx globose, splitting into 2-5 

 valvate lobes. Petals 5-8, shorti'r than the calyx. l)isk-glands large, 

 altei'iialing with llie petals. Stamens 8-13 on a convex receptacle; 

 filaments nearly free; anthers versatile, the cells pendulous from the 

 thickened connective. J'istillode or 2-3-lid. Female ilowers : 

 Sepals 2-4. Petals usually 5, longer than the sepals, caducous. Ovary 

 3-cellcd ; ovido 1 in each cell; styles short, thick, spreading, entire or 



