CoBlodisrusJ] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 427 



peltate orbicular-ovate cuspidate entire or 3-lobcd denticulate softly appressed -tomen- 

 tose and ashy -white beneath, petiole as long as the limb, racemes elongate bisexual 

 white-tomen'tose, bracts sublinear, pedicels very short, fein. calyx thrice as large as 

 the male very unequally 3-5-fid, stamens about 60, filaments long, connectives thick 

 papillose, central receptacle broad naked, ovary ellipsoid pubescent, styles papillose 

 within. East Indies (Herb. Lenormand}. Description from Mueller. From the 

 peltate limb this may be sought amongst Malloti. Mueller says it is something like 

 M. barbatus, but that it wants a fern, disk, that the male has an intrastaminal disk, 

 and that the ovary is not softly echinate. 



C. THUNBEBQIAVTTS, Muell. Arg. in DC. I. c. 758 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 

 206; branchlets glabrous, young compressed angled and rusty-pubescent, leaves 

 opposite not peltate in very unequally petioled- pairs ovate cuspidate or acuminate 

 base rounded contracted or subcordate entire crenulate or repand-toothed glabrous 

 above beneath glandular-dotted and with the nerves roughly puberulous, stipules 

 small subulate, petiole 6-10 times shorter than the limb, racemes slender long- 

 peduncled rusty puberulous shorter than the leaves, bracts short few-fld., male fl. sub- 

 ellipsoid | in. long, stamens about 100 polyadelphous, connective apiculate glandular, 

 central naked area broad. Ceylon, Herb. Thunberg. Habit of Mallotus eriocarpus, 

 but more robust and polyandrous. Mueller I. c. It is unknown to Thwaites. 



53. ttZAXiXiOTUS, Lour. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire toothed or 3-lobed 

 penninerved or 3-7-plinerved, peltate or not, often glandular-dotted beneath, 

 and sometimes with glandular areas at the base above. Flowers small or 

 minute, dioecious or monoecious, in axillary or terminal simple or panieled 

 spikes or racemes, apetalous ; males clustered, fern, solitary in the bracts. 

 Disk usually 0. MALE FL. Calyx globose or ovoid, valvately 3-5-partite. 

 Stamens 20^30 or more, crowded on a central flat or convex receptacle, 

 filaments free; anthers small, dorsifixed, cells globose or shortly oblong 

 parallel adnate to and often widely separated by the thickened connective. 

 Pistillode or very minute. FEM. FL. Calyx spathaceous or valvately 3-6- 

 lobed or -partite. Ovary 2-4-celled ; styles free or connate below, spreading 

 or recurved, entire plumose or papillose ; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 

 2-3, rarely 4, 2-valved smooth tubercled echinate spinous or paleaceous cocci. 

 Seeds ovoid oblong or globose, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 broad, flat. Species about 70 in the tropics of the Old World. 



It is very difficult to arrange the species of this genus in a natural manner, and the 

 following attempt will require modification when the species are better known. 



Sect. I. BLUMEODENDRON. Disk glandular in both sexes. Seeds with a 

 thick fleshy coat. 



1. Ttl. KLurzii, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves very coriaceous ter- 

 nately whorled triple-nerved elliptic or subcordate obtusely cuspidate, male 

 cymes very short fascicled not viscid, buds globose. Blumeodendron 

 Tokbrai, Kurt For. FL ii. 391 (not of Mueller}. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 5010), Kurz. ? PERAK, King's 

 Collector. 



An evergreen tree, 40-60 ft. Leaves 6-10 by 3-6 in., pale brow r n when dry and 

 very rigid, bate rou ided or subacute ; nerves 4-6 pair above the basal, very strong 

 beneath, diverging in the Perak specimens, nearly straight in the Auda nan ones, 

 cros<-nervules very ftint ; petiole 1^-2 in., very stout, swollen at the base and top. 

 Male cymes \-\ in., with a very short stout peduncle ; pedicels as lomr. Perianth, 

 i in. diam., 2-3-valved ; receptacle convex, covered with tumid glands between the 

 filaments. Stamens 20-30 ; anthers nearly orbicular, connective rather broad, slits 



