112 EUPHORBIACEA. { Homonora. 
 H. riparia, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 637 ; Erandis For. Fl. 445 ; 
Ind. Trees 593; F. B. I. v, 455; Watt E. D.; Gamble Man. 622 ; 
Prain Beng. Pl. 951 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 620; Adelia neriifolia,. 
Roth ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 849. 
A small evergreen willow-like shrub with brown bark ; branchlets young 
leaves and inflorescence pubescent. Leaves erect, ‘closely set, 3-6 in. 
long, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute, apiculate, entire or 
serrulate towards the tip, glabrous above, densely clothed beneath 
with reddish-brown orbicular gland-like scales ; base acute or rounded ; 
main lateral nerves 10-30 pairs, the veins between them reticulate ;, 
petioles 4-2 in. long.; stipules 4 in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute. 
Flowers dicecious, sessile, in axillary bracteate spikes 2-5 in. long ;. 
rhachis pubescent; bracts ovate-acuminate, pubescent. MALE 
flowers: Sepals 3, broadly elliptic, concave, glabrous, 4 in. long. 
Anthers red. Frm. flowers. Sepals usually 5, narrowly ovate,, 
acuminate, 4 in. long, pubescent. Ovary pubescent ; styles 3, shortly 
connate at the base. Capsule globose, } in. in diam., tomentose. 
Seeds +, in. long, smooth, yellowish-brown. 
Bundelkhand, in rocky river-beds (Edgeworth, Duthie, etc.). DisTRrs. : 
Bengal, Sikkim, Chittagong, Assam, Khasia Hills, Burma and south- 
wards to Central and W. India to Ceylon ; extending to the Andaman 
Islands, Cochinchina and Java. 
19. RICINUS, Linn.; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 457. 
/A tall glabrous and glaucous annual, sometimes shrubby of 
tree-like. Leaves alternate, broad, palmately lobed; lobes 7 of 
more, serrate. Flowers moncecious, rather large, in terminal sub- 
paniculate racemes. Perianth simple and without any disk, the 
male flowers crowded in the upper portion of the inflorescence, the 
females below. Mate flowers: Calyx membranous, splitting 
valvately into 3-5 segments. Stamens very many; filaments 
connate and repeatedly branched; anthers with distinct distant 
sub-globose divergent cells. Pistillode none. Frm. flowers : Calyx 
spathaceous, caducous. Ovary 3-celled ; styles entire, 2-fid. or 
2-partite ; ovules solitary in each cell. Fruit a prickly capsule of 
three 2-valved cocci. Seeds oblong, testa crustaceous, albumen 
fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—A single species, probably of 
African origin, now widely cultivated in tropical countries. 
