in .] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 413 



8. C. Wig*litii, Hook. f. ; shrubby, sparsely softly hispid, leaves 

 ovate- or oblong-lanceolate obtuse subentire or crenate, racemes numerous 

 filiform flexuous hairy, stamens 6-9 subsessile, ovary hispid with 3 ligulate 

 and very short fimbriate styles. Wall. Cat. 7747. 



TBAVANCOBE; at Courtallam, Wight; Tinnevelly Hills, Beddome. 



Branches terete, slender, woody, younger together with the petioles and racemes 

 laxly clothed with soft tawny hairs. Leaves 2-3 in., membranous, base acute; nerves 

 4r-6 pair, very slender, midrib often fulvous-hairy beneath ; petiole -! in., slender. 

 Racemes numerous, 1-2 in. long ; bracts minute, lanceolate, vilious ; male fl. with 

 globose hairy buds 2 1 U - ^ in. diam., on capillary pedicels as long. Stamens mixed with 

 a few unequal hyaline scales. Capsule about 4 in. diam., 3-lobed, hispid, cocci thinly 

 crustaceous. Seeds globose, smooth, dotted with shallow white pits. 



9. C. Beddomei, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 acuminate entire or coarsely serrate, racemes filiform strict, males with 

 very distant bracts each containing a short spikelet of densely imbricating 

 bracteoles from the axils of which the pedicelled male fl. arise, stamens 

 15-20, anther-cells linear, ovary glabrous with 3 ligulate scales and long 

 fimbriate styles. 



TRAVANCORE ; on the Anamallay Hills, Beddome. 



Branches terete, slender, woody, youngest shoots hispid. Leaves 4-6 in., mem- 

 branous, base acute ; nerves 8-10 pairs, very slender ; petiole g-lj in., sluhder. 

 Racemes long-peduncled ; bracts minute, lanceolate ; spikelets -^-^ in. long ; brac- 

 teoles lanceolate, green, ciliolate. Stamens without scales or glands; anthers subses- 

 sile, cells much longer than in the other species, quite free except at the very base. 

 Capsule % in. diam., glabrous, cocci thinly crustaceous. Seeds foveolate. 



10. C. hirsutum, Hook.f. ; shrubby, villously hirsute with tawny hairs, 

 leaves lanceolate acuminate subcrenate vilious on both surfaces, stamens 

 about 8, anthers short. 



TRA VAN CORE ; on the Tinnevelly Hills, Beddome. 



Branches rather stout, terete, woody. Leaves 3-5 in., vilious on both surfaces, 

 with dense softer longer hairs beneath; nerves 4-6 pair; petiole |-li in. Racemes 

 2-3 in. long, filiform, clothed with soft spreading hairs ; bracts distant, with clusters 

 of minute shortly pedicelled male flowers. Calyx 3-4 lobed, filaments longer than 

 the anthers. I have seen but one specimen, a male. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



11. C. longripetiolatum, Kurz For. FL ii. 396 ; leaves 4-8 in. long- 

 petioled elliptic- to ovate-oblong shortly finely acuminate subcrenate or 

 toothed base acute obtuse or subcordate slightly pubescent beneath, petiole 

 3-5 in., racemes hispid, capsules deeply 3-lobed hirsute with soft prickles, 

 cocci the size of a pea. 



PEGTJ, MARTABAN and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kttrz. 



A shrub or small tree, 8-15 ft. ; stem fistulose ; shoots appressed-pubescent. 

 I have seen only imperfect specimens in young flower ; they resemble C. longifolium 

 except in the fruit. 



12. C. leucocarpum, Kurz For. ~Fl. ii. 396; leaves broadly ovate 

 obtusely acuminate a foot long and almost as broad 3-5-nerved at the 

 rounded or suboordate base repaud-toothed scabrid above stellate-pubescent 

 beneath, petiole 3-8 in., racemes stellate-tomentose, capsules the size of a 

 cherry 2-4-lobed fleshy-coriaceous softly stellately hispid, seeds ovoid- 

 globose smooth in. diam. enveloped in a white aril. 



