CIV. EUPHORBIACE.f:. 025 



unequal, orbicular, irregularly toothed, the point of insertion small. 

 Female flowers not seen. Fruit immature | iu. in diam., on a very 

 short axillary raceme, 3-lobed, truncate at' top ; pedicels short, stout ; 

 style short, persistent. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 320 ; Woodr. iu 

 Journ. Bomb. Nut. v. 12 (1899) p. 373. 



The occurrence of this shrub in the Bombay Presidency is doubtful. There is 

 but one slieet from tlie Presidency in Herb. Kew. ticketed " Konkan Stocks'' but 

 the handwriting on the ticket is not tliat of Stocks. No other collectors seem *b 

 have found the ])lant in B(jmbay. There are 3 other sheets in Herb. Kew. from 

 Kurg. None of the specimene have female flowers. 



Excoecaria bicohr, Hassk. Retzia (1855) p. 158. A handsome 

 shrub 4-5 ft. high, with ovate-lanceolate opposite leaves olive-green 

 above, crimson beneath, bearing minute flowers in the cold season, is 

 often cultivated as an ornamental shrub in gardens. Woodr. Gard. in 

 Ind. ed. 5, p. 44-1. 



37. SEBASTIANA, Sprang. 



Shrubs rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers 

 monoecious, in terminal, axillary, and lateral slender racemes ; males 

 minute, 1-3 in each bract ; females solitary or at the base of the 

 raceme. Male floweks : Calyx minute, membranous, unequally 

 5-lobed or 5-partite. Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamens 2-4 ; filaments 

 short, free or nearly so ; anther-cells contiguous but distinct, parallel. 

 Pistillode 0. Female flowers: Calyx 3-lobed or 3-partite. Petals 0. 

 Disk 0. Ovary exserted, 3-celled ; ovule 1 in each cell; styles free or 

 connate at the base, entire, revolute or spreading. Capsule globose, 

 of 3 cocci separating from a columella ; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds 

 oblong or subglobose, strophiolate ; testa smooth; albumen fleshy; 

 cotyledons broad, flat. — Distrib. Species 40, almost all American. 



1. Sebastiana Chamselea, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. v. 15, part 2 

 (1866) p. 1175. An annular glabrous herb 1-2 ft, high ; stems 

 numerous from a long thin tap-root, ascending, slender, grooved, ribbed 

 or terete. Leaves |-3 by ^| in., linear or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 

 obtuse, finely serrulate, base tapering ; midnerve strong, prominent 

 beneath; petioles y^^-g in. long; stipules ovate, acute, ciliate. Flowers 

 yellowish. Male flowers iu axillary or leaf-opposed slender short 

 spikes ; bracts very small, acute, with a large often stipitate gland on 

 each side, 1-2-flowered. Calyx minute, membranous, not covering the 

 stamens in bud ; lobes 5, ovate, acute, ciliate. Stamens usually 3 ; 

 filaments distinct. Female flowers usually solitary at the base of 

 the male, or lateral on the branches without any males. Sepals 3, 

 larger than in the male, obovate, acute, lacerate and ciliate, 2-glandular 

 within. Ovary much exserted ; styles 3, small, undivided. Capsules 

 ^-\ in. long, crustaceous, subglobosely oblong, 3-coccous, the cocci with 

 2 rows of spinules on the back of each, separating from a persistent 

 columella, glabrous except for the spinules. Seeds i in. long, eUipsoid- 

 oblong, rouuded at both ends, yellow. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 475 ; Trim. 

 Fl. Ceylon, v. 4, p. 78 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat, v. 12 (1899) 

 p, 373; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 055, Microntachiia Chawcplea. A. ,Tuss, Tent. 



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