Tn'gonostemon.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^S. (J. D. Hooker.) 399 



oblong ; anthers sessile, cells subparallel on a globose connective. Capsule \-% in. 

 diani., deeply 3-lobed at the top, less so at the sides, thickly crustaceous. Seeds 

 globose. 



37. TRIGONOPLEURA, HooJc.f. 



A shrub or tree. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, oblong, quite entire, 

 glabrous, penninerved. Flowers dioecious ?, small, in clusters in the leaf axils 

 or on the branches, apetalous. MALE FL. Sepals 5, broadly oblong, coriaceous, 

 broadly imbricate. Petals rather longer, obovate, villous on both surfaces. 

 Dixie of 5 large glands, round the base of the staminal column. Stamens 

 about 8, filaments united in a column, tips free ; anthers oblong, extrorse, 

 cells adnate to the villous connective. Pistillode of 3 subulate processes 

 terminating the column. FE:M. FL. unknown. Capsule small, 3-lobed, 

 hoary; epicarp separable, wrinkled; cocci bony, separating from a 

 columella with 3 hyaline wings. Seeds solitary in the cells, broadly 

 oblong, dorsally compressed, testa black, polished ; aril large, pale. 



T. malayana, HooTc.f. 



PERAK, ScortecTiini (Herb. PeraJc. 738, 2056). MALACCA, Mainaay (Kew 

 Distrib. 1452). 



Branches woody, stout or slender, branchlets puberulous, tips tomentose. JLeaves 

 4-6 in. by l^-2 in., sometimes linear-oblong, coriaceous or thin, brown when dry, 

 obtusely cuspidate or subcaudate, base acute obtuse or rounded ; nerves 8-10 pair, 

 rather strong beneath, cross-nervules faint ; midrib sometimes puberulous ; petiole 

 -J-;}: in. ; stipules minute, ovate-oblong, pubescent. Flowers in numerous clusters of 

 3 or more along the branches, hoary ; males about % in. diam. when spread open; 

 pedicels short, stout, tomentose ; bracts ; sepals obtuse, unequal ; petals small, 

 when dry clothed with rufous hairs, sometimes notched at the tip or side, coriaceous. 

 Staminal column included, rusty villous. Ovules (undeveloped seeds) solitary in the 

 cells, with a broad fleshy ? obturator. Capsule about % in. diam. Seeds attached to a 

 thickened placenta, This genus differs from Trigonostemon in the anthers being 

 seated on a central column terminating in a 3 -cleft pistillode, and entirely in habit 

 and inflorescence. 



37*. CODXJBUni, Juss. 



Glabrous shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, penn * 

 flowers monoecious, in usually unisexual racemes, rarely a female at the 

 base of the male racemes ; males small, fascicled, fern, solitary. MALE PL. 

 Sepals or calyx-lobes 3-6, membranous, imbricate. Petals small, alter- 

 nating with disk-glands. Stamens 15-30, free, crowded on a lowreceptac 

 anthers erect, cells on the margins of a large connective, tips at length con- 

 fluent. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 0. Disk subentire. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; styles entire, elongate, slender, recurved ; ovules 1 in eac 

 cell. Capsule globose, of 3 2-valved parchment-like cocci. Seeds shining, 

 testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species about 4, 

 Malayan, Australian and Pacific. 



C. varieg-atum, Plume Bijd. 606; leaves very variable from oblong 

 to narrowly linear often variegated green and yellow, racemes long axillary. 

 MuelL Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1119 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 405. C. pictum, 

 Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 3051. Croton bractiferus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 680. C. 

 variegatus, Linn. Sp. PL Ed. 3, 1424. C. pictus, Wall. Cat. 7714,,Eheede 

 Sort. Mai. vi. t. 61. 



In gardens, &c., throughout INDIA, especially in the Eastern Provinces ; native of 

 the Molucca Islands. 



