Coccoeem*.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^S. (J. D. Hooker.) 425 



racemes equalling or longer than the leaves, flowers shortly pedicelled. 

 Benth. in ./vn.-n. Linn. Sue. xvii. 217. Hymenocardia plicata, Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 395. 



From PEGU to TENASSERIM ; in swamp-forests, M'Clelland, &c. 



A tree. Leaves 4-6 in., dark brown when dry, most minutely gland-dotted 

 beneath, base rounded or subcordate, nerves 4-6 pair above the basal. Racemes 

 slender. Male fl. | in. diam., clustered, shortly pedicelled ; sepals membranous, 

 concave, glabrous; stamens very numerous in a globose mass, filaments very short. 

 Fern fl. larger, pedicelled; sepals minute, subulate, ciliate; ovary 3-gonous; styles 

 2-3 fitnbriate. Fruit not seen. 



53. CCELODISCUS, Saill. 



Shrubs or small trees with stellate pubescence. Leaves opposite, or 

 alternate by the suppression of one, broadly ovate or orbicular, often long- 

 petioled, 3-7-plinerved. Flowers bracteate in axillary spikes or racemes, 

 small, dioecious, apetalous ; males clustered in the bracts, fern, solitary. 

 Disk 0. MALE PL. Sepals 3, valvate. Stamens 20 or more, surrounding a 

 naked central receptacle, filaments free ; anthers small, oblong, erect, cells 

 parallel, introrse. PistiJlode 0. FEM. FL. Sepals 3, narrow; Ovary 2-5- 

 celled; styles stout, erect, entire; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 3 

 tomentose or spinous 2-valved cocci, separating from a central axil. Seeds 

 subglobose ; testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy, cotyledons broad flat. 

 Species 5 or 6, Indian and Malayan. 



Differs from Mallotus in the stamens surrounding a naked disk and the usually 

 oblong anthers with the cells contiguous. 



1. C. montanus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 759 ; softly tomen- 

 tose, leaves opposite or subopposite long-petioled 3-7-plinerved ovate-cor- 

 date or oblong-lanceolate acuminate sinuate-toothed minutely glandular 

 beneath, male spikes and fern, racemes short stout, stamens in one series, 

 filaments long villous, capsule smooth tridymous densely stellate-tomentose. 

 Croton montanus, Wall. Cat. 7723 B. Eicinus dioicus, Wall. Cat. 7828 -, 

 Saill. Etudes Gen. Euphorl. 294. 



PEXANG, Wallich, Porter, c. 



A shrub or small tree, 18-25 ft. ; branches terete. Leaves in rather remote 

 unequal pairs, or with one of the pairs replaced by a branch or raceme, rather thin, 

 dull greenish when dry ; the broadest ovate-cordate, 7 by 4 in., narrowest 8 by 

 i!j in., base rounded cuneate or cordate, upper surface scaberulously tomentose ; petiole 

 stout, 1-3 in. Racemes axillary or supra-axillary or nearly leaf-opposed; males 3 

 5 in.; bracts minute; flowers 'in remote clusters of 2-3, subsessile, ovoid in bud, 

 about g- in. long; sepals 3, unequal, ovate lanceolate; stamens about 25, filaments 

 slender, quite free to the base, anthers didynious, connective inconspicuous in fruit 

 globose at the back of the anther ; central receptacle orbicular, nearly flat. Fern, 

 racemes more robust ; sepals 3, tomentose. Capsule ^ | in. diam., depressed, cocci 

 globose. Seeds globose, smooth. Thwaites, while referring this to his Rottlera 

 eriocarpa, remarks of it that it differs in the hairy filaments. 



2. C. lappaceus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 393 ; densely f urfuraceously to- 

 mentose, leaves opposite 4-8 in. ovate or broadly oblong entire or obscurely 

 lobed and denticulate, racemes short axillary, bracts linear, ovary 3-4-celled, 

 stamens crowded on the receptacle, filaments glabrous short, capsules sessile 

 clothed with long soft villous filaments. Mallotus lappaceus, Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 957. Croton lastus, Wall. Cat. 7738. Eottlera lap- 

 pacea, Wall. Cat. 7845. 



