A<h*horM<i.'na.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 419 



3. A. zeylanica, Thwaites Ennm. 270 ; branches leaves beneath and 

 racemes finely stellate-tomentose, leaves subdeltoidly ovate or lanceolate acu- 

 minate from a truncate or subcordate 3-plinerved b^se, male fl. in peduncled 

 heads. Cephalocroton zeylanicus, SaiU. R,ec. Obs. Sot. 5, 148 ; Muell. Arg. 

 in LfC. Prodr. xv. ii. 763. Beddome Foresters Man. 206. Centrostylis 

 zeylanica, Saill. Etudes Gen. Euphorl. 470, t. 2, f. 28, 29. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 4-5000 ft., Thwaites. 



A suberect shrub ; branches slender. Leaves membranous, 3-7 by 1-3 in., brown 

 when dry, pale beneath ; nerves 5-8 pairs above the basal, slender; petiole j-1 in., 

 slender; stipules minute, subreniform. Male fl. T \j in. diam., tomentose ; sepals 

 4-5, rarely 2, obtuse ; filaments very stout ; anthers large ; pistillode pubescent below. 

 Fem.fl. larger than the males; sepals 5 G, flowering 1 lobulate at the base, fruiting 

 nearly 1 in. long with filiform purple gland-tipped segments; ovary tomentose, 3- 

 lobed ; styles very large, much branched, branches clothed with long papillae. 'Capsule 

 depressed, cocci rounded. Seeds subspheric, in. diani., brown marbled with black. 

 I should be disposed to keep up Baillon's genus Centrostylis in a revision of the 

 Order. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



A. LETJCOCEPHALA, Saill. Etudes Gen. Euphorl. 473. Cephalocroton leuco- 

 cephalus, Muell. Arg. in DC. xv. ii. 762 ; JBeddome Forester's Man. 206, is a Mada- 

 gascar plant, erroneously also ascribed to Ceylon. 



48. CCELODEPAS, IfassL 



Trees. Leaves alternate, oblong, entire or toothed, penninerved. 

 Flowers in axillary spicate clusters, monoecious or dioecious, apetalous; 

 fern, few at the base of the spike. Disk 0. MALE PL. Calyx globose, 

 splitting into 3-4 valvate segments. Stamens 4-8, filaments cuneately 

 dilated from the base upwards, free or connate at the very base; anthers 

 terminal, didymous, cells pendulous or spreading from the connective, 

 introrse. Pistillode minute, protruded. FEM. FL. Calyx cupular, embracing 

 the ovary, often enlarged in fruit; lobes 4-10, imbricate. Ovary 3-celled; 

 styles spreading, flattened, 2-multifid, lobes toothed or lacerate ; ovules 1 

 in each cell. Capsule of 3 2-valved stellately-pubescent cocci. Seeds sub- 

 globose, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species 

 3, South Indian and Malayan. 



1. C. Wallichianum, Senth. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1288; branchlets 

 glabrous, leaves subsessile broadly oblong-lanceolate quite entire or sub- 

 entire glabrous base cordate, spikes interrupted tomentose npper andro- 

 gynous lower short female, anther-cells pendulous introrse, styles dilated. 

 Wall. Cat. 9098. 



PENANG, Porter. 



A tree ; branches glabrous, tips of shoots and petioles puberulous. Leaves 6-10 in., 

 coriaceous, shining, red -brown when dry, sometimes obscurely eremite near the apex, 

 nerves 12-14 pairs arched, reticulate; petiole very short and thick or 0; stipules 

 small, subulate. Spikes short, white-tomentose ; male fl. minute, globose, clustered ; 

 fern, few, solitary in small bracts. Filaments united at the base, dilated upwards and 

 suddenly contracted at the tip ; anther-cells small, diverging. Pistillode thick, 

 truncate. Fern, calyx tomentose, lobes short ; styles thick, much larger than the 

 ovary, multitid, lobes papillosely fringed. 



2. C. calycinum, Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 320, and Forester's Man. 207 ; 

 branchlets furfuraceously pubescent, leaves subsessile elliptic or linear- 

 oblong acuminate crenate-serrate, spikes scurfily pubescent, fern, calyx 

 much enlarged in fruit, styles 2-fid lacerate. 



