328 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Flueggia. 



12. FX.UEGOXA, Willd. 



Unarmed or spinescent shrubs. Leaves small, alternate, distichous, 

 quite entire. Flowers minute, axillary, pedicelled, dioecious, apetalous ; 

 males numerous, clustered ; females subsolitary. MALE FL. Sepals 5, sub- 

 petaloid, imbricate. Stamens 5, or fewer, alternating with as many disk- 

 glands ; filaments free ; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pistillode large, 2-3-fid. 

 FEM. FL. Calyx of the male. Disk annular, toothed. Ovary 1-3-celled ; 

 styles recurved, united .below, elongate, entire, notched or 2-fid, ovules 2 in 

 each cell, fruit globose, coriaceous, or with a fleshy epicarp, bursting 

 irregularly or into distinct 2-valved cocci. Seeds triquetrous, dorsally convex, 

 ventrally acute, testa crustaceous, albumen' scanty ; embryo curved, coty- 

 ledons broad flat. Species about 6 in the tropics of the Old World. 



The large pistillodeof the male fl.,and the usually long recurved styles united below 

 into an erect column of the female, are the best characters for this genus. 



1, F. microcarpa, Plume Bijd. 580; glabrous, unarmed, branchlets 

 slender anglel aud compressed, leaves elliptic ovate obovate or orbicular 

 loosely reticulated beneath. F. mclanthesoides, F. Muell. in Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edinb. vii. 490. F. Leucopyrus, Dalz. $ Gihs. Bomb. FL 236 (not of Willd.). 

 F. Virosn, BailL Etudes Gen. Euplurrb. 593, t. 26, f. 39-43 (not of DC.) ; 

 Wall. Cat. 7928. F. leucophylla, Wall. Cat. 7916. F. angulata, ' BailL Rec. 

 Obs. i. 80. F. obovata, Herb. Ham. F. elliptica, Jferb. Ham. Securinega 

 obovata, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 449 ; Brand. For. FL 4-V> ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb.- 354 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 197 ; Benth. 

 FL Austral, vi. 115. S. Leucopyrus, Brand . l\or. FL 456, t. 54 in part. 

 Phyllanthus obtusus, Schrank in Flora Raiitb. tiyllog. ii. 65 ; Wall. Cat. 

 7941. P. Wightianus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 6 (not 47), and in DC. 

 I. c. 3'^ (not 425); Grah.Cat. Bomb. PL 180. P. lucidus, Jlort. ex Steud. 

 Nomencl. P. virosus, Roxb. in Willd. Sp. PL iv. 578, and in FL Ind'. iii. 

 659 ; Wall. Cat, 7928 A, B (Cm part), E. P. griseus, Wall. Cat. 7918 Am 

 part. P. leucophyllus, Herb. Str-achey fy Wiuterb. P. retusus, Roxb. 

 I. c. 657. P. glaucus, Wall. Cat. 7927' B P. rotundatns, Herb. Wight. 

 Leptonema melanthesioides, F. Muell. in HouJc. Journ. Bot. ix. (1857) 17. 

 Cicca obovata, A'urz For. J^l.ii. 354. C. pentandra, Blanco Fl.Filipp.4Bfi. 

 Ohorizandra pinnata, Wight Ic. t. 1994. Xylophylla obovata, Willd. 

 Enum. Jlort. BeroL '229. Bessera inermis, Sprang. Pugill ii. 90. Drypetes 

 bengalensis, Sprena. Sust. iii. 902. Bradleia dioica, Vahl mss. Wall. Cat. 

 7948. 



Throughout INDIA ; from Kashmir ascending the Himalaya to 5000 ft., to 

 Bhotau, and Assam and southwards to Malacca and Travancore. SCTND, Stocks. 

 CEYLON, Kelaart. DISTRIB. China, Malay Islands, Australia, Trop. Africa. 



A deciduous-leave' 1 large shrub or smail tree (Kurz). Leaves very variable, thin, 

 1-3 in. long, subgiaucous beneath, tip rounded, obtuse, acute or rarely retuse; nerves 

 57 pairs, very slender ; petiole | ^ ^,in., slender. Flowers usually in very dense 

 fascicles from a crowd of minute bracts, -fV^Tiy m - diarn. ; pedicels ^-^ in., capillary, 

 females the longest. Sepals rounded or oblong, concave. Stamens 3-5 alternately 

 with glands usually far exseried, filaments sometimes very long, all free to the base. 

 Pistillodes 3, united at the base, slender, erect, with recurved simple or lobulate tips, 

 rarely 2 or 0. Ovary ovoid, on an annular disk; stales 3, bifid. Fruit globose, of 

 two sizes, mostly minute ^-| in. diatn. with a dry pericarp, a few J in. diam. white 

 with a fleshy pericarp. Seeds 3-6, minutely punctate. 



2. F. Leucopyrus, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 757 ; a glabrous woody tortuous 

 bush, branchlets stout ending in spines, leaves obovate obcordate or orbicu- 



