464 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Epiprinus. 



as many minute naked or 2-glandular thick scales (or involucral bracts). 

 Ovary short, 3-celled ; styles 3, connate in a long stout column, tips spread- 

 ing 2-fid. and subpalmately lobed ; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule large, of 

 2-3-subglobose 2-valved cocci. Seeds subglobose, testa crustaceous. 



E. ma lay anus. Griff. Notul. iv. 487 ; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 1024. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Disiril. 4787), Maingay (K. D. 1393). PERAK, Scorte- 

 cMni, King's Collector. 



A shrub or tree, sometimes 30 ft. ; branchlets very stout, puberulous. Leaves 

 8-14 by 4-6 in., thinly coriaceous, smooth, greenish or brownish when dry, oblong- 

 ovate, long-acuminate, base obtuse or cordate ; nerves 9-12 pair, slender but much 

 raised, as are the nervules ; petiole 3-5 in., terete, tip swollen; stipules not seen. 

 Racemes 2-6 in., simple or branched below, hoary-tomentose ; rachis very stout ; 

 bracts small. Male sepals rounded, glabrous within. Ovary deeply 3 -lobed and 

 stout style densely stellate-tomentose. Capsule 1 in. diam., boary, valves woody ; 

 pedicel stout, 1-1^ in. long ; fruiting sepals 1^-2 in. long, pubescent on both surfaces, 

 midrib and nerves strong. Seeds f in. diam. 



66. PLUK.ENETIA, Linn. 



Twining shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, often cordate, 3-5- 

 plinerved, entire or toothed. Flowers in axillary lateral or leaf-opposed 

 androgynous racemes, apetalous ; males usually minute, fascicled ; females 

 lower on the raceme. Disk 0. MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, valvate. Stamens 

 8-30, on a prominent receptacle, filaments short free ; anthers erect, cells 

 globose or didymous, parallel or diverging. Pistillode 0, or filiform, capitel- 

 late. FEM. FL. Sepals imbricate. Ovary 3-4-celled; styles connate in a 

 fleshy globose mass or cylindric toothed or lobed column ; cells 1-ovuled. 

 Capsule subglobose or depressed, dry or fleshy, of 3-4 2-valved cocci. Seeds 

 globose, sometimes 3-ribbed on one side, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; 

 cotyledons broad, flat. Species about 12, tropical, chiefly American. 



P. corniculata, SmitliinNov. Act. Upsal. vi. 4; nearly glabrous, 

 leaves oblong from a truncately cordate base caudate-acuminate toothed, 

 sepals 5, stamens 8, ovary 4-celled, style column obovoid, capsule greatly 

 depressed of 4 stellately spreading granulate cocci, each produced outwards 

 into a vertical green linear obtuse wing. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 773. Pterococcus glaberrimus, HassJc. in Flora 1842, Beibl. ii. 41. Hedraio- 

 stylus corniculatus, HassJc. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 234. Sajorium corniculatum, 

 Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorl. 484. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft., Clarice. UPPER ASSAM, Jenkins, Griffith. 

 TENASSEEIM and MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4716). DISTRIB. Java. 



Stem slender, tips of shoots and often the petioles appressed puberulous. Leaves 

 3-8 in., membranous; petiole 1-3 in., 2-glandular at the apex. Male racemes 

 1-1 -5- in., very slender, glabrous ; bracts lanceolate, 3-fld., shorter than the pedicels ; 

 calyx globose, -fa in. diam. Fern. fl. f in. diam.; sepals lanceolate. Capsule 1 in. 

 diam., crown nearly flat, wings nearly as long as the nucleus. Seeds 5 g- in. diam., 

 turgidly lenticular with a sharp keel all round ; testa crustaceous, pale, mottled with 

 brown. 



67. TRAOIA, Linn. 



Perennial, usually climbing or twining herbs, hispid with stinging hairs. 

 Leaves alternate, simple or palmately 3-lobed, serrate, base often cordate, 

 3-5-plinerved. Floicers monoecious in terminal axillary and leaf-opposed 



