PodadcidaJ] cxxxv. EUP&ORBIAC&E. (J. t). Hooker.) 423 



Calyx glandular, ovoid or globose, acuminate, splitting into 3-4-valyate 

 segments. Stamens many, in a convex receptacle, filaments free, mixed 

 with glands ; anther-cells distinct, pendulous from a projecting acuminate 

 connective. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Sepals 4-5, imbricate. Staminodes 

 subulate. Ovary 3-celled ; styles very large, long, recurved, entire, papillose 

 on the inner surface; ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit subglobose, fleshy, inde- 

 hiscent, covered with sessile or stipitate glands. Seeds large, oblong, testa 

 bony, aril large white fleshy, albumen copious ; cotyledons flat. 



P. sapida, Thwaites Enum. 274. P. Thwaitesii, Muell. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 791. Eottlera Thwaitesii, Bailt. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 426 ; 

 Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 282. 



CEYLON; at Ambagamowa and near Ratnapoora, Tkiuaites. 



A tall tree ; shoots and panicles tawny villously tomentose. Leaves 5-10 by 2|- 

 5 in., coriaceous, dark brown when dry (as is the whole plant), obovate, abruptly 

 acuminate, hairy beneath, midrib above tomentose, base narrowed ; nerves 10-12 

 pair, spreading; petiole f-2 in., terete, tomentose. Panicles large, spreading, tomen- 

 tose, and with many red long-stipitate glands. Flowers red, males in. diam. 

 Ovary globose, tome'ntose ; styles long, stout, twisted. Fruit reddish, subspherical, 

 1 in. diam., clothed with long fleshy projections terminating in peltate discoid 

 glands. Seeds f in. long, brown. 



51. TREWXA, Linn. 



Trees, soft-wooded. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate- or orbicular-cordate, 

 quite entire, 3-5-plinerved. Flowers rather large, developed before the 

 leaves, dioecious, apetalous ; males in lax lateral bracteate racemes, one in 

 each bract; fern, solitary on a long peduncle, or racemose. Disk 0. MALE 

 FL. Calyx globose, splitting into 3-4 broad concave often reflexed segments. 

 frtumens numerous, on a convex receptacle, filaments free ; anthers dorsifixed, 

 oblong, cells contiguous parallel. Pistillode 0. FEM FL. Sepals 3-5, broad, 

 imbricate, caducous. Ovary 2-4-celled ; styles connate below, very long, 

 terete, entire, papillose all over ; ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit 2-4-celled, 

 fleshy, indehiscent or loculicidal, endocarp crustaceous. Seeds ovoid, testa 

 hard, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat. Species 2, Indian. 



1. T. nudiflora, Linn. Sp. PI Ed. 3, Append. 1661 ; fern. fl. solitary 

 or few long-peduncled, fruit globose 1-1^ in. diam., pericarp very thick. 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 953 ; Koxb.Fl. Ind. iii. 837; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1870-1 (excl.fem.fi.} ; Baill. Etudes G-en. Euphorb. t. 18, f. 18-23 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 443; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 379 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 359 ; Grah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PI. 185; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 231 ; Wall. Cat. 7816, 7817. 

 T. macrophylla, Jtoth Nov. Sp. 373. T. macrostachya, Klotzsch in Bot. 

 Keise Pr. Wald. 117, t. 23. Eottlera indica, Willd. in Gotting. Diar. 

 Hist. Nat. i. 8, t. 3 ; A. Juts. Tent. Euphorb. t. 9, f. 29 C ; Wall. Cat. 7837. 

 Tetragastris ossea, Gcertn. Fruct. ii. 130, t. 109, f. b.Eheede Sort. Mai. i. 

 t. 42. 



Common in the hotter parts of India from Kumaon southward, and eastward to 

 ASSAM, MALACCA and CEYLON. DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java. 



A large deciduous tree, more or less tomentose or woolly, shoots and sometimes 

 leaves beneath and inflorescence clothed with floccnlent cottony wool, at others 

 nearly glabrous. Leaves 4-6 in. long and often as broad, variab e in proportion of 

 length to breadth, membranous, base rounded or cordate ; petiole 1-3 in. Male 

 racemes 38 in.; flowers ^ ^ in. diam. ; pedicels slender, as long or longer. Fetn.ji. 

 usually solitary, peduncle sometimes 4 in. long ; ovary densely lanate ; styles - in. 

 long. Fruit almost woody. There are, I think, two varieties of this, both common, 



