418 oxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Adenochlcena. 



penni- or tripli-nerved, quite entire. Floirers in terminal or axillary spici- 

 form racemes, or capitate, monoecious, males many clustered, females few, 

 at the base of 'the spike. Disk 0. MALE PL. globose in bud. Sqxt/.^ 4-6, 

 valvate. Stamens 4-6, filaments free, exserted ; anthers dorsifixed, versatile ; 

 cells adnate to the thick connective, parallel. Pistillode columnar. FKM. 

 PL. Sepals 5-8, narrow, very unequal, sometimes accrescent and pinnatistect. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; styles long, connate below, spreading and bifid above with 

 recurved plumosely papillose multifid arms ; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule 

 of 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds estrophiolate, subglobose, testa crustaceous, 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species 4 or 5, Indian and Malayan. 



SECT. I. Leaves penninerved. Fruiting calyx unaltered. SYMPHYLLIA, 

 Saill. 



1. A. silhetiana, BentJi. in Gen. PL iii. 308 ; leaves crowded at the 

 ends of the branches, subpanduriformly oblanceolate acuminate from a con- 

 tracted cordate base, spikes terminal interrupted, flowers densely clustered 

 sessile on short lateral thickened branchlets glabrous. Symphyllia silhe- 

 tiana, JBaill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 474, t. 11, f. 6, 7; Miiell. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 764. Cluytia semperflorens, Wall. mss. (not Itoxb.). Wall. 

 Cat. 9095. 



KHASIA MTS., Wallich, Griffith. 



Branches stout, woody, finely stellate toinentose, as are the petioles and rachis of 

 the racemes. Leaves 6-10 by 1^-2^ in., thinly coriaceous, contracted above the 

 2-auricled base; midrib and 12-15 pairs of arched anastomosing nerves very pro- 

 minent beneath ; petiole -^--^ in., very stout. Racemes stout, erect, 2-6 in. long; 

 rachis quite naked between the clusters of flowers ; bracteoles minute, pubescent ; 

 flowers T \j in. diam. ; sepals 4, ovate ; disk with a few hairs ; pistillode small. Ovary 

 stellately tomentose ; styles united below in a column, arms pubescent. Capsule 

 unknown. 



Var. trichantha, Muell. 1. c. ; flowers smaller stellately tomentose. Kurz For. Fl. 

 ii. 378. Tenasserim, Heifer. Possibly a different species, but the specimen is too 

 imperfect. 



2. A. indica, Beddome mss. ; leaves short- or long-petioled elliptic or 

 oblong obtuse, spikes lateral and terminal interrupted, flowers densely 

 clustered scurfily puberulous. Cephalocroton indicum, Beddome Fl. 

 Sylvat. t. 261. Symphyllia mallotiformis, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 

 156, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 764. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats from Canara to Travancore. 



A large tree, branchlets puberulous. Leaves 3-7 in., greenish or pale brown 

 when dry, rather shining above, tip often narrowed but obtuse, base rounded or 

 narrowly cordate at the petiole ; nerves 8 pair, strong beneath ; petiole very variable 

 in length, ^-4 in., rather thickened at the top. Spikes 2-(> in.; bracts minute; 

 male buds globose, ^ in. diam. ; stamens 4-5, large, exserted. Fem.fl. very rare, at 

 the base of the spikes ; sepals lanceolate, unequal, tomentose ; ovary and style tomen- 

 tose, the latter stout and often much longer than the sepals ; stigmas twice-forked, 

 fimbriately papillose. Capsule subglobose, slightly scabrous, f in. diam. Some 

 specimens of this were distributed under " Herb, 2nd. Or., Claoxylon, 14," and its re- 

 semblance to Mai lotus is singular. It is also singular that no specimens occur in 

 Wight's Herbarium, and that it has not been found in the Nilghiri Hills ; the " Herb. 

 Ind. Or. H. f. & T." specimens, obtained by G. Thomson's collectors in the Ntlghiri 

 arid Kurg, are hence no doubt from the latter country. 



SECT. II. Fruiting calyx accrescent, pectinately laciniate. CENTRO- 

 STYLIS, Baill. 



