336 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ*:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sauropus. 



petioled broadly elliptic glaucous beneath, flowers racemed on a densely 

 bracteate peduncle, male calyx shortly 6-lobed, lobes retuse, glands large, 

 fern, sepals obovate. Wall. Cat. 7918 B. 



BURMA ; at Prome, WallicJi. 



Habit and leaves of S. quadrar gularis, but the latter glaucous beneath, branch- 

 lets much more slender, and male calyx very different. 



14. S. compressus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 73, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 243 ; shrubby, much branched, quite glabrous, branchlets 

 nn^led and compressed, leaves very shortly petioled elliptic or broa<llv 

 oblong obtuse or apiculate penninerved, flowers very minute, calyx of both 

 sexes with 6 short broad retuse or obreniform lobes, fruit pisiform sessile, 

 epicarp thin bursting irregularly, cocci with a minute basal ventral perfora- 

 tion. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 350. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Hamilton ; Sikkim, on the lower 

 hills, J. D. H. t &c. ; Bhotan, Griffith. MARTABAN ; in the Eng forests. Kurz. 



A deciduous-leaved tree or large shrub ; branches flattened, branchlets very 

 slender. Leaves I in. and under, brown when dry, nerves 2-3 pair; petiole T ! , in.*; 

 stipules minute. Flowers dark red, solitary or few together, males ^-TO in - diam. ; 

 fern, much larger, hardly enlarged in fruit; lobes of male very variable, sometimes 

 with the truncate ends terminating at each angle in a recurved horn. Styles dis- 

 tant as in S. quadrangular is. Fruit ^-^ in. diam. ; cocci | in. long. I have seen no 

 Martaban specimens of this. 



15. S. rigridus, Thwaites Enum. 284; shrubby, quite glabrous, branch - 

 lets acutely angled, leaves ^-f in. very shortly petioled elliptic rounded or 

 subobovate obtuse or apiculate, flowers minute, male racemed on a bracteate 

 peduncle, calyx discoid papillose within with short retuse lobes, fern, of 

 obovoid obtuse sepals, stvles erect sunk in the concave top of the ovary, 

 fruit very small ovoid. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 243. 



CEYLON; common in the hot drier parts of the island, Thwaites. 



A small shrub, 1-2 ft. Leaves black-green above when fresh, with white in the 

 middle, dark brown when dry. Male flowers solitary (or appearing one at a time), 

 from a short axillary peduncle that is densely clothed with smnate bracts, vellow- 

 green, -^ in. diam. ; fern. -| in. diam. Capsule \ in. long. 1 have very indifferent 

 specimens, in male fl. only. Thwaites remarks that the ovary resembles that of 

 Agyneia. I have no doubt as to its being a Ceratogynum, and very near to 

 S. quadrangularis. 



15. PTJTRANJIVA, Wall. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, evergreen, quite entire or serrulate, penninerved 

 and reticulate. Flowers axillary, pedicelled, mono- or rli-oacious, apetalous ; 

 males clustered, fern, subsolitary ; disk 0. MALE FL. Calyx unequally 3-6- 

 lobed or -partite, imbricate. Stamens 2-4 in the centre of the flower, fila- 

 ments free or subconnate ; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pistillode 0. 

 FEM. FL. Calyx of the male. Ovary ovoid, 2-3-celled ; styles short, spread- 

 ing, dilated into broad fleshy arms ; ovules 2 in each cell. Drupe ovoid or 

 globose; endocarp hard, l-celled, 1-seeded. Seed ovoid, testa crustaceous, 

 albumen fleshy, cotyledons broad flat. Species 2, Indian. 



1. P. Roxburgrliii, Wall. Tent. Fl N*p. 61, and Cat. 6814; nearly 

 glabrous, leaves obliquely ovate or ovate-lanceolate serrulate, sepals of male 

 3-5, of fern. 5-6, stamens 1-3. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 443 ; Boyle 

 III. 317. t. 83 bis: Wiqht Ic. t. 1876: Bratod. For. Fl. 451, t. 53; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 366 ; Gamble Man. 2nd. Timb. 353 ; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. t. 275 ; 



