cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 441 



obovate obtuse or acute entire minutely glandular beneath, racemes slender 

 shorter or longer than the leaves, ovary 2-celled rusty-pubescent and scaly, 

 styles sessile. J3eddome Forester's Man. 210. Croton atrovirens, Herb. 

 Madr., and C. coccineus, Wall. Cat. 7771. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Cochin, Johnstone, to Travancore, Heyne, Beddome. 



Branchlets glabrous, except the rusty -pubescent tips. Leaves 3-5 in., brovvu 

 when dry, especially beneath, nerves 5-7. pair above the rather short basal, oross- 

 nervules faint ; petiole ^-1 in. Racemes 36 in., simple ; flowers rather loner- 

 pedicelled ; bracts minute ; male tt. about T ^- in. diam., buds globose ; sepals 

 membranous, sparsely glandular. Fern, racemes shorter ; pedicels as long as the 4-5 

 ovate unequal acute scurfy sepals. Fruit unknown. 



38. OT. fuscescens, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 195, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 978 ; glabrous except' the glandular rusty-pubescent inflo- 

 rescence, leaves opposite petioled elliptic elliptic-oblong or obovate acute or 

 obtusely acuminate very minutely glandular beneath penni- and obscurely 

 triple-nerved, base subacute, racemes shorter than the leaves, ovary 3-celled 

 glabrous glandular, style very short, capsule tridymous unarmed glandular. 

 Beddome Forester's Man. 210. Eottlera fuscescens, Thwaites Enum. 273. 



CEYLON ; not uncommon up to 2000 ft., Walter, &c. 



A small tree ; branches smooth, terete ; branchlets slender, compressed, glabrous. 

 Leaves 3-5 by 1^-2^ in., thinly coriaceous, sometimes shining on the upper or both 

 surfaces, brown when dry, paler beneath, base obscurely 2-glandular, rarely rounded ; 

 nerves 5-6 pair, arched ; petiole ^-L in. Male racemes 2-3 in., subsessile, flowers 

 in. diam. ; buds ovoid, acute; pedicels as long as the calyx; sepals 4, unequal ; 

 stamens 20-40, anther-cells not separated at the top by a truncate connective. 

 Fern, racemes stout, about as loug as the males; flowers |- in. diam. ; calyx 3-5-cleft, 

 acute. Ovary densely glandular, styles 3-4 short. Capsule about \ in. diam. ; cocci 

 subglobose. 



30. IKE. leucodermis, .7Zbo&./. ; glabrous except the racemes, branches 

 woody bark white, leaves alternate long-petioled triple-nerved elliptic or 

 obovate entire minutely glandular beneath, racemes elongate, capsule tri- 

 dymous unarmed smooth. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1433). 



Upper branches sometimes as thick as a swan's quill, very white. Leaves' 6- 

 10 in. by 35 in., more or less coriaceous, brown beueath, base rounded 2-3-ghindular, 

 nerves 5-6 pair above the basal, which extend beyond the middle, cross-uervules 

 strong beneath ; petiole 1-3 in. Racemes axillary and from the naked branches, 

 stellately pubescent, males 4-6 in. slender, fern, longer in fruit ; bracts miuute. 

 Male fl. nearly \ in. diam., clustered; pedicels slender; buds large, in. diam., 

 globose ; sepals 4, broad, membranous, glandular, glabrous ; stamens 40-50, anther- 

 cells oblong, globose, almost connate with a very narrow connective or separated by 

 a broader one. Capsules on stout pedicels 1-1^ in. long, about 1 in. diam., cocci 

 rounded, rather woody, epicarp not separating. Seeds 5 in. diam., subglobose, 

 smooth, polished, brownish. 



40. IMC. distans, Muell. Arg. in Linncea^xxiv. 194, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 976 ; branches petioles leaves beneath and inflorescence scurfily 

 stellate -tcmentose, leaves opposite long-petioled triplinerved ovate orbicular- 

 ovate or oblong acuminate entire or obscurely sinuate eglandular beneath, 

 racemes few-fld., males short, fern, elongate in fruit, ovary tomentose, styles 5, 

 capsule tridyrnous unarmed densely stellate-tomentose. Beddome Forester'* 

 Man. 209. 



SOUTHEKN DECCAN, Jleync; Travancore, Wight ; Tiuuevelly Hills, Beddome 

 CEYLON, Keyne. 



