Order 106. Euphorbiaceoc* 299 



20. SEBASTIANIA. 



S. chamcelea (Microstachys c., !).) A small erect smooth 

 plant, branched or with many stems from the root, leaves oppo- 

 site linear sessile, capsule stalked. 



Rutnagherry. Common about Vingorla (D.). Decoan peninsula 



(a). 



I noted this as very like a Euphorbia. Some specimens have 

 grooved and ribbed stems (H.}. 



Actephila, like Briedelia, but flowers larger, petals sometimes want- 

 ing, filaments free, the male disks 5-lobed, the fruit or capsule of 3 

 cocci. * A. excelsa (Anomospermum excelsum, D.). An evergreen 

 shrub or tree, leaves smooth and shining, elliptic, flowers axillary, 

 long-pedicelled, sepals oblong, capsule smooth, broader than long. 

 Fonda Ghaut (D.). 



Sauropus, male calyx disciform, 6-lobed, female 6-cleft, persistent, 

 increasing, stamens and styles 3, fruit with 6 indehiscent cocci. *S. 

 quadrangularis (Ceratogynum rhamnoides, D.), a dwarf smooth shrub, 

 leaves elliptic or broad ovate, male flowers very minute, racemed 

 below, female solitary above, capsule size of a pea. Chikli. Vingorla, 

 rare (D.) : Matheran (Hirdwood). 



Hemicyclia, stamens eight or more inserted round a disk, sepals 4 

 or 5, the inner usually larger, stigma large, otherwise as Putranjiva. 



* H. sepiaria, shrub or tree, leaves smooth, oblong, obovate, flowers 

 minute, whitish, stigma concave, crenated, drupe nearly round, red. 

 Konkan and Ghauts (D.). * H. venusta, tree with drooping branches, 

 leaves oblong, smooth, male flowers clustered, females in pairs, stigma 

 large disciform, fruit obovoid. Dharwar, Canara, &c. (D.). 



Bischofia, a tree, leaves trifoliate, flowers dioecious, without 

 petals, sepals and stamens 5, anthers large, fruit round, fleshy. 



* B. Jatanica (Stylodiscus trifoliatus, D.), a large tree, leaflets ob- 

 long ovate, flowers in slender panicles, green, fruit size of a small 

 cherry, blue-black, on long thickened stalk. Boke. Konkan and 

 Ghauts. 



Givotia, sepals 5, unequal, corolla 5-lobed, stamens 13 to 25 on a 

 woolly receptacle. * G. rottleriformis, a small tree, leaves very large 

 rounded and cordate, sometimes lobed, white and hairy beneath, very 

 long-petioled, flowers in panicles, stamens about 15, fruit oblong 

 hoary, size of a pigeon's egg. N. Deccan and S. M. Country (D.). 



Elachia, smooth shrubs, sepals 4 or 5 enlarged and leafy in fruit, 

 petals small in the male, absent in female, capsule of 3 cocci. 



* B. denudata, leaves ovate, oblong entire, flowers small, white, um- 

 belled. Chorla Ghaut (D.). Konkan and Canara (H.). Dimorphocalyx, 

 smooth trees, male calyx cup-shaped or 5-toothed, female of 5 dis- 

 tinct sepals enlarging greatly in fruit, petals 5, stamens 10 to 20; 

 capsule of 3 cocci. * D. Lawianus, leaves ovate oblong, male flowers 

 in cymes, female long pedicelled, stamens about 15, sepals in fruit 

 very unequal. Not in D. or G. Konkan (H.). 



