-BALIOSPERMUM: ] EUPHORBIACE. 107 
cocci. Seeds ovoid, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy, cotyledons 
flat and broad.—Species 6, in India and Malaya. 
B. axillare’ Blume Bijdr. 604; F. B. I. v, 461; Kanjilat 
For. Fl. (ed. 2), 357; Gamble Man. 624; Prain Beng. Pl. 946, 
Brandis Ind. Trees 583, Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 608. B. indicum, 
Dene. in Jacqm. Voy. Bot. 154, t. 155. B. montanum, Muell. Arg., 
Watt E. D.; Croton polyandrum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 682 ; Royle Ill, 
327, 328. 
A stout leafy undershrub 3-6 ft. high with herbaceous branches from 
the root, glabrous except the young shoots and sometimes the leaves 
beneath. Leaves firmly coriaceous, very variable in size and shape ; 
the upper 2-3 in. long, lanceolate, penninerved ; the lower 6-I2 in. 
long, often palmately 3-5-lobed and with sinuate-toothed margins ; 
base rounded or cuneate ; petioles 2-6 in. long; stipules of 2 glands. 
Flowers usually moneecious, arranged in many axillary racemes or 
contracted panicles, all male or with a few females at the base. 
MALE flowers: Calyr globose, ;, in., 4-5-partite, often slightly 
hairy ; segments finely mottled. Disk of 6 glands. Stamens about 
20. Frm. flowers. Sepals not enlarging in fruit. Disk thin, 
yin. in diam. Ovary hairy; styles about ;; in. long, thick, 2- 
partite, dull-red. Capsules 4-4 in. long, obovoid, usually hairy. Seeds 
+ in. long, smooth, mottled. 
Dehra Dun, in shady places, and eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan 
forest tracts, where it often forms a considerable portion of the under- 
growth. It flowers and produces fruit almost throughout the year, 
Distris.: Outer ranges of Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan up to 
3,000 ft. ; also Assam, Khasia Hills, Bengal, Chittagong, Burma and 
Siam, and from C. & W. India to Travancore ; extending to Java 
and the Malay Peninsula. The seed, which resembles that of the 
Castor-oil plant, but smaller, is used as a drastic purgative, and the 
root and leaves are much employed in Hindu medicine. 
15. ACALYPHA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 414. 
Herbs, shrubs: or trees. Leaves alternate, toothed or crenate, 
rarely entire, penniveined or 3-5-nerved. Flowers small, monc- 
cious or occasionally dicecious, apetalous and without a disk, 
arranged in axillary or terminal racemes ; males minute, without 
bracts ; females 1-2, within a peduncled solitary bract, or sometimes 
at the base of large accrescent leafy bracts, low on the male spikes 
