cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 403 



This has the subsesslle leaves of B. umbellaia, and even smaller leaves than B. 

 refiexa ; it differs from both in the enlarged fruiting sepals, which are f in. long. 

 The specimens in Rottler's Herbarium (from Heyne) are marked from Ceylon. 



4. B. denudata, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 226 ; leaves petioled 

 elliptic oblong lanceolate or ovate obtuse acute or acuminate, male fl. race- 

 mose, fern, shortly peduncled, calyx deciduous after flowering. Croton 

 umbellatum, Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 231 (excl. syn.). 



The CONCAN and N. CANABA, Ritchie, Stocks, Dalzell, Talbot, &c. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves very variable, 3-5 by l-2i in. ; ^petiole - in. 

 Fern. ft. at the base of the racemes. Fruit variable in size, ^-i in. long, peduncles 

 -2- in- 



5. H. andamanica, Hook. f. ; leaves elliptic or obovate obtusely 

 acuminate, male fl. subumbellately corymbose, fern, corymbs subsessile, 

 flowers very shortly pedicelled. Codiaeum andamanicum, Kurz For. Fl. 

 ii. 405. Dimorphocalyx andamanicus, Benth. in G-en. PI. iii. 302. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, in tropical forests common, Kurz. 



A large evergreen shrub, everywhere glabrous. Leaves 3-6 in., base acute or 

 obtuse, chartaceous, entire or subsinuate ; petiole ^-f in. Malefl. as in B. umbellata, 

 fern, rather larger, both terminating young often axillary shoots. Sepals glabrous, of 

 male rounded, of fern, ovate acute. Petals of male small; glands large, trigonous, 

 truncate, fleshy. Stamens in several series. Ovary appressed hirsute; styles very 

 long, 2-cleft. Capsule size of a small cherry, globose, 3-coccous, woody-coriaceous, 

 roughish ; peduncle nodding, thickened upwards. Seeds ovoid-elliptic," silky grey, 

 variegated. Description chiefly from Kurz. 



40. DIBZORPHOCAXiYX, Thw. 



Glabrous trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, coriaceous, penninerved. 

 Flowers in axillary or terminal peduncled few-fld. racemes, or the fern, sub- 

 solitary, dioecious. MALE FL. Calyx cupular, or 5-partite, 5-toothed or lobed, 

 open in bud. Petals 5, longer and broader. Disk-glands 5, alternate with 

 the petals. Stamens 10-20, on a short columnar receptacle, filaments stout, 

 free or the inner connate ; anthers dorsifixed or innate ; cells adnate to 

 thick connective, parallel or divergent. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate, enlarging greatly in fruit. Petals 5. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 

 - erect, 2-fid ; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 3 2-valved crustaceous cocci. 

 Seeds ovoid, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 

 Species 3-4, South Indian and Malayan. 



1. D. glabellus, Thwaites Enum. 278 ; leaves 2-3 in. elliptic- ovate 

 -oblong or -lanceolate obtuse or subacute, stamens about 10, ovary strigose, 

 fruiting perianth $-1% in. diam., segments broadly oblong or obovate. Tri- 

 gonostemon Lawianus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1105 (the Ceylon 

 plant only}. Croton glabellus, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 8012. Wall. Cat. 8010 

 and 7750 in part. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, ILeyne, Wight. CEYLON ; common in the drier parts of the 

 island, Thwaites. 



A small tree. Leaves red brown beneath when dry, base acute obtuse or rounded ; 

 nerves many, vei'y slender; petiole -^J in. Male cymes erect; flowers :}- in. diam., 

 shortly pedicelled ; central stamens united in a slender column with 5 free ones at its 

 base. Fern, flowers long pedicelled ; pedicels with few small obtuse bracts. Petals 



