466 cxxxv. EUPHORBiACE^). (J. D. Hooker.) [Trarjia. 



3. T. burmanica, Kurz For. FL ii. 399; nearly glabrous, leaves 

 broadly ovate abruptly acuminate subserrate base sinuate-cordate, fruiting 

 sepals broadly ovate acute, stigma appressed to the hirsute woody capsules. 



MARTABAN ; east of Tounghoo, in forests, Kurz. 



A large twining shrub, young parts appressed puberulous. Leaves 2-5 in., 

 sparsely setose above; petiole 1-3 in. Racemes 2-6 in., puberulous. Fruiting sepals 

 nearly 1 in. long, leafy. Capsule of 3 cocci each as large as a pea. Seeds velvety, 

 mottled. 



68. CNESIKONE, Blume. 



A climbing villous shrub. Leaves alternate, oblong from a broadly 

 cordate base, toothed, 3-5-nerved and penninerved ; stipules broad, per- 

 sistent. Floivers monoecious, in terminal or leaf-opposed androgynous 

 racemes, apetalous ; upper male, lower fern. 2-bracteolate. Disk 0. MALE 

 FL. Calyx globose, valvately splitting in 3 broad lobes. Stamens 3, alternate 

 with the lobes, hardly exserted, filaments stout free ; anthers dorsifixed, 

 connective thick produced into a renexed lamina, cells separate sub- 

 parallel. Pistillode obscure or 0. FEM. FL. Sepals 3, enlarging in fruit. 

 Ovary short, 3-celled, strigose ; styles or stigmatic lobes 3, fleshy, united 

 at the base in a fleshy mass, incurved, fimbriate within; cells 1-ovuled. 

 Seeds globose, testa crustaceous with a fleshy coat, albumen fleshy ; coty- 

 ledons broad, flat. 



C. javanica, Blume Bijd. 630 (by misprint CKESMOSA) ; Muell. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 926 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 399 ; Baill. Etudes G-en. Euphorb. 

 458, t. 4, f. 14-17. Tragia hastata, Reinwdt. in Hassle. PL Rar. 245. T. 

 rugosa, Wall. Cat. 7794. T. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 7793. Wall. Cat. 

 7788. 



SILHET, Wallich'. KHASIA MTS., J. D. H. $ T. T. MISHMI HILLS, in UPPER 

 ASSAM, Griffith. BEN&AL; at Dacca, Clarice. MALAY PENINSULA and BURMA, 

 from Pegu to Malacca and Penang, Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 



Evergreen, densely villously tomentose ; branches stout. Leaves 3-5 in., oblong 

 or obovate-cordate, acuminate, tomentose on both surfaces ; nerves 4-5 pair above 

 the baal, nervules reticulate; petiole -3 1-g- in., stout ; stipules broadly ovate, acute. 

 Racemes pubescent or tomentose, 1 in. long ; bracts deciduous; male fl. in. diam., 

 pedicelled ; fern. larger, subsessile ; sepals velvety, broad, - in. long, fruiting as long 

 as the capsule, rhomboid-ovate, entire or crenate. Capsule hispid, of 3 cocci each 

 as large as a small pea. Cocci velvety. Seeds with a mottled testa. 



69. XKEGXSTOSTXGBIA., Sook.f. 



A nearly glabrous twiner. Leaves alternate, petioled, elliptic, cuspidate!/ 

 acuminate, quite entire, triple-nerved. Flowers monoecious, in small axillary 

 unisexual racemes, apetalous ; males minute, fern, small. MALE FL. Calyx 

 ovoid, 3-lobed to below the middle ; tube obconic, lined with a thickened 

 disk ; lobes ovate, obtuse, valvate. Stamens 3, erect in the centre of the 

 flower, filaments short thick ; anthers triangular-ovate, obtuse, base in- 

 truded ; cells narrow, adnate to the face of the thick connective, slits 

 iutrorse. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Calyx of 5 linear-lanceolate sepals, rather 

 enlarged in fruit. Disk 0. Ovary tridymous, depressed, densely hirsute, 

 3-celled ; style column very large, globose, contracted at the base, fleshy, 

 smooth, 3-lobed to the middle, lobes rounded connivent ; cells 1-ovuled. 

 Capsule depressed, tridymous, appressed-pubescent, of 3 2-valved woody 

 cocci. Seeds globose, testa mottled. 



