456 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE*;. (J. D. Hooker.) \Homonoia. 



nate, base acute or rounded ; nerves 10-30 pairs ; petiole T V~i i n - Spikes 2-5 in. ; 

 flowers quite sessile, males in. diam. ; rachis pubescent ; bracts acuminate. Sepals 

 of male oblong, glabrous, of fern, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent. Ovary pubescent. 

 Capsule % in. diam., globose, tomentose, smooth or sparingly tubercled. 



2. H, ret usa, Muell. Arg. in Linntea xxxiv. 200, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 1022 ; leaves obovate or cuneate-obovate or oblanceolate entire or 

 toothed towards the tip sparsely glandular beneath, spikes short stout. 

 Brandis For. HI. 445 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PL 185 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 231 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 212. Adelia retusa, Wight Ic. t. 1869. A. 

 cuneata, and Haematospermum cuneatum, Wall. Cat. 7954. 



In river beds, DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan to the Nilgbiris. 



A small rigid glabrous shrub, with stout woody branches. Leaves 1-2 in., rigidly 

 coriaceous, narrowed from above the middle to the acute base, tip rounded or retuse 

 often mucronate ; nerves 6-10 pairs ; petiole very short. Spikes -1 in., bracts 

 subulate, rachis giabrous; flowers minute. Sepals of male glabrous, of fein. pubes- 

 cent. Capsules -J--J; in. diam., hoary. 



59. ZiASIOCOCCA, Hook. f. 



A small tree. Leaves alternate or subternately whorled, shortly petioled, 

 narrow, quite entire, penninerved, eglandular. Flowers monoecious, apeta- 

 lous; males in axillary racemes ; fern, solitary, in the npper axils pedicelled. 

 MALE FL. Calyx globose, splitting into 3 valvate concave segments. Disk 0. 

 Stamens very many, in a dense globose head of branched filaments bearing 

 many anthers ; anther-cells globose, divaricate, connective arching over the 

 top and sides of the cells. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Sepals 5-7, unequal, 

 imbricate, glandular and pubescent, persistent and enlarged in fruit. Ovary 

 3-celled ; styles 3, filiform, combined in a column below ; cells 1-ovuled. 

 Capsule of 3 cocci, densely clothed with rigid hispidly setose paleae. 



A remarkable genus, differing from Homonoia in the inflorescence, persistent 

 fern, sepals enlarged in fruit, and the capsule densely clothed with rigid setose 

 paleae. 



L. symphilliaefolia. Hook. f. Ic. Plant, t. 1587. Homonoya sym- 

 philliaefolia, Kurz in Gamble Man. 2nd. Timb. 364. 



TEEAI, Gamble (and cult, in Calcutta Bot. Garden). 

 A moderate tree ( Gamble). Branchlets terete with white bark ; shoots pubes- 

 cent. Leaves 3-6 by 1-1| in., panduriformly lanceolate, acuminate, contracted 

 above the narrow cordate base, smooth, glabrous, green when dry ; nerves 810 pair, 

 slender, arched ; petiole J^-J in., pubescent. Male racemes pendulous, many-fld. ; 

 rachis pubescent; bracts rounded, concave, pubescent; flowers shortly pedic-elled, 

 ^ in. diam., or smaller. Sepals orbicular, membranous, finely pubescent. Stamens 

 effuse, anthers minute. Fern, flowers erect, on hispid gimdular bracteolate pedicels in. 

 long. Sepals irregularly placed, 23 inner much smaller than the others, outermost 

 broadly ovate, the others ovate-lanceolate, all glandular on the back and with the 

 margins with long simple and shorter gland-tipped hairs. Disk obscure or 0. Ovary 

 subglobose, 3-lobed, pubescent ; styles long, erect, connate below in a stout column, 

 with three slender erect arms. Capsule (immature) in. diam., depressed, seated on 

 the enlarged spreading linear-oblong acuminate glandular senals. The native speci- 

 mens are male, with flowers as described ; the Calcutta Garden ones have much 

 smaller male flowers. 



60. POXilTDRAGXKA, Hook.f. 

 A shrub or small tree ? Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong or -obovate 



