608 CXT. EUPHOKBIACEJB. 



pubescent and Mith some stellate Lairs above, densely stellately \\oolly 

 beneath, base cordate or truncate. Flowers in short few-flowered 

 axillary racemes ; bracts linear, -i-i in. long. Male flowers : Calyx 

 g in. long. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, rather more than jL in. long. 

 Stamens 15 in 2 whorls. Female flowers : Sepals yL by -^ in., 

 linear, acute. Petals linear, as the sepals but smaller and narrower. 

 Styles -jIq- in. long, slightly connate at the base, 2-fid to more than | 

 way down. Capsules 5 in. in diam., stellately woolly without silvery 

 scales. PI. B. I. v. 5, p. 410. 



Deccan : in dried up water-holes common, Dalzcll cf- Gibson ; Alandi near Poona, 

 Cooke \; Nasik, Kanilkarl; Poona, banks of the Mula Eiver, Cooke], Kani/karl ; 

 Malegfion, Bl/iva I S. M. Country: /I'zYcAie, 1345 ! Sind: (S/ocfc !—Distrib. Through- 

 out India ; N. Africa. 



I think tiiere are sufTicient grounds for maintaining this as a separate species. It 

 seems io be tolerably common in Egypt, where it has been collected by Schweinfurth 

 (Nos. 137, 837, and 898 in Herb. Kew.), who considers it to be a species distinct from 

 C. plicafa, which also occurs in Egypt. The fact that tliis prostrate plant, as pointed 

 out by Sir George Watt (Diet. Econ. Prod, v., 2, p. 021), does not furnish a dye, 

 while the erect plant C.plkctfa does, goes far to show that they are different species. 



25, BALIOSPERMUM, Blame. 



Erect shrubs. Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, penni- 

 nerved or 3-5 -nerved from the base, 2-glandular at the base. Flowers 

 small, monoecious or dioecious, paniculate or racemose. Male flowers 

 globose ; sepals 4-5, membranous, orbicular, concave, imbricate. Petals 0. 

 Disk of 4-G glands. Stamens 10-30 ; filaments slender, free ; anthers 

 terminal, the cells adnate tlu'oughout to the broad contiective, dehiscing 

 at first introrsely, the slits ultimately lateral. Pistillode 0. Female 

 FLOWERS : Sepals 5-(), lanceolate, entire or toothed, sometimes accrescent 

 in fruit. Petals 0. Disk entire. Ovary 3-celled ; ovule solitary in 

 each cell ; styles rather long, 2-fid or 2-partite ; stigmas smooth (not 

 fimbriate). Capsule of three 2-valved crustaceous cocci. Seeds ovoid ; 

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

 India and Malaya ; species 6, 



1. Baliospermum axillare, Blume, Bijdr. (1825) p. 604. A leafy 

 stout usually monoecious undershrub 3-6 ft. high with herbaceous 

 branches from the root, glabrous except the young shoots and sometimes 

 the leaves beneath. Leaves sinuate-toothed,'tlie upper small, lanceolate, 

 penninerved, the lower large, reaching 6-12 in. long and often as broad, 

 ovate, often palmately 3-5-lobed, base rounded or cuneate, 2-glandular ; 

 petioles 2-6 in. long; stipules of 2 glands. Flowers in numerous 

 axillary racemes or contracted panicles, all male or with a few females 

 below. Male flowetjs : Calyx globose, -,-\j in. long, 4-5-parti(e, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent ; .''segments suborbicular, concave, imbri- 

 cate, membranous, finely mottled. Disk of 6 glands. Stamens about 

 20. Female ki.owers : S(>pals ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, not accres- 

 cent in fruit. Disk ^^^-, in. in diam., thin, entire. Ovary hairy ; styles 

 about -JiY in. long, thick, 2-partite, dull-red, the stigmatic surface smooth, 

 not fimbriate. Capsules 3-^ in. long, obovoid, usually hairy, of three 

 2-valvcd crustaceous cocci. Seeds i by i in., elliji-^oid, quite smooth, 

 mottled. Fl. B. 1. v. 5, p. 461 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1809) p. 372; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 946. BaUosjJenmim 2}oli/andn(m, 



