402 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ostodes. 



fainter nerres pale glaucous brown when dry, petiole shorter i-1 in. long slender, 

 rachis of cymes shorter, fern. fl. and capsule unknown. Penang, King's Collector, 

 Curtis (No. 811). Singapore, Lobb (No. 304). 



39. BX.ACHXA, BailL 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, or opposite or the upper suboppo- 

 site, membranous, quite entire, eglaudular, peniiinerved. Flower.s monoo- 

 cious or subdioocious ; males terminal subumbellate or racemose with 

 filiform peduncle and pedicels, fern, solitary or fascicled, pedicels thickened 

 above. MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, concave, membranous, imbricate. Petals 

 4-5, small, rounded, hyaline. Disk-glands scale-like, alternating with the 

 petals. Stamens 10-20, on a convex receptacle, filaments free ; anthers 

 ovate, cells on the margin of the connective, tips at length confluent. Pis- 

 tillode 0. FEM. FL. Sepals accrescent. Petals 0. Disk obscure or annular. 

 Ovary 3-4-celled ; styles filiform, 2-partite, recurved or revolute ; ovules 1 

 in each cell. Capsule of 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds oblong, estrophiolate, testa 

 crustaceous shining, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species 5 or 

 C, South Indian, Ceylon and one Chinese. 



1. B. umbellata, Baill. Etudes G-en. Eivphorb. 387, t. 19, f. 18-20 ; 



leaves very shortly petioled elliptic-subrhombic or oblong, male flowers 

 nmbelled, fruiting sepals slightly enlarged spreading obtuse persistent. 

 Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 226 ; Thwaites Enum.277. Croton umbel- 

 latus, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 545 ; Wall. Cat. 7765. Codiamm umbellatum, 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1118 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 213, t. 23 r 

 f. 6. 



TRAVANCORE, Klein, Wight. CEYLON; common in the south of the island, 

 especially near the sea. 



A shrub. Leaves 4-7 in. by l-|-3 in., broadest at or above the middle, cuspidately 

 acuminate, much narrowed at the base ; nerves 8-10 pair, very slender, nearly 

 straight; petiole y^-4 in ' ^ a ^ e fl- 8-10, on a capillary peduncle 1-3 in. ; pedicels 

 -J--J in. j buds globose; perianth i in. diam. Fern. fl. 1-4, on a rigid erect slender 

 peduncle 1-2 in. long; pedicels -i in., thickened upwai-ds ; perianth J in. diain., 

 in fruit % in. Capsule f in. diam., smooth, deeply 3-lobed. Seeds % in. long, obloug, 

 shining, mottled. There is a tendency to an enlargement of the female sepals. 



2. B. reflexa ? Sent/i. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 226; leaves petioled 

 subrhombic or elliptic obtuse cuspidate or obtusely acuminate, male flowers 

 nmbelled, fruiting sepals slightly enlarged acute spreading or reflexed 

 persistent. 



NILGHIEI MTS., Herb. G. Thomson. 



Very closely allied to B. iimbellata, but the leaves are usually much smaller, 2-3 

 by 1-li in., the petioles longer, y- i Q -> a d the "fruiting sepals more acute. The 

 fruiting sepals are spreading as in umbelLata or reflexed. Seeds % in. long, oblony, 

 smooth, polished, mottled with brown. 



3. B. calycina 9 Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 226 ; leaves sub- 

 sessile elliptic-rhombic or -lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate, male H. 

 racemose, fruiting sepals much enlarged oblong obtuse or lanceolate 

 acuminate persistent. Croton umbellatus, Wight Ic. t. 1874 ; Wall. Cat. 

 7770, 7776, 8013. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, Klein, Heyne (Herb. Rattier). TEAVANCOEE, at Cour- 

 tallam, Wight. NiLaniEi MTS. (Herb. G. Thomson). 



