Excoecaria.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 475 



Leaves fi-8 by 2-2-i in., thinly coriaceous, glossy above, base more or less acute, 

 nerves 16-20 pair slender, slightly arched ; petiole -^ in., eglandular. Male spikes 

 4-5 in., pedicelled, racbis very slender, flowers scattered, sessile ; sepals of male free, 

 base auricled, insertion very small. Fern. ft. solitary, terminal, pedicelled, with a large 

 basal gland on eacb side. Ovary 3-celled, ovoid, narrowed into a short robust style 

 with 3 subulate recurved stigmas. Fruit {pedicelled, berried, subumbilicate, 6-grooved, 

 of 3 cocci, size of a small apple. Seed subglobose. This is named E. oppositifolia, 

 Griffith, by himself -in his herbarium. I have seen no specimens but his and Wallich's. 

 In Kurz's E. oppositifolia the flowers are shortly pedicelled, males several in each 

 bract; nuile spikes robust and fruit the size of a cherry. See under crenulata for 

 the erroneous quotation of Jack as the authority for this species. 



IMPEEFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



EXCCECAEIA ? Larut, Perak, alt. 2-3500 ft. (Herl. Hort. Bot. Calcutt., 

 No. 2344) ; a shrub 812 ft. quite glabrous, branches terete, leaves membranous 

 4-6 in. ovate-lanceolate acuminate margin slightly waved, base acute or rounded, 

 nerves very many slightly arched, petiole | in. slender, capsules sessile clustered in 

 the leaf-axils J in. diam. 2 3-dymous, cocci globose quite smooth. 



74. SEBASTIANIA, Spreng. 



Shrubs, rarely (the Indian species) a herb. Leaves alternate, penni- 

 nerved. Flowers monoecious, in terminal axillary and lateral slender 

 racemes, apetalous ; males minute, 1-3 in each bract ; females solitary or 

 at the base of the raceme. Disk 0. MALE FL. Calyx minute, membranous, 

 unequally 5-lobed or -partite. Stamens 2-4, filaments short free or nearly so ; 

 anther-cells distinct, contiguous, parallel. Pistillode 0. FEM. PL. Calyx 

 3-lobed or -partite. Ovary exserted, 3-celled ; styles free or connate at the 

 base, entire, revolute or spreading; cells 1-ovuled. Capsule globose, of 3 

 cocci separating from a columella, endocarp crustaceous. Seeds oblong or 

 subglobose, strophiolate, testa smooth, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, 

 flat. Species 40, all American but the following, and another which is 

 American and African. 



S. Chamaeleaj Muell. Ary. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1175; annual, 

 glabrous, leaves linear obtuse finely serrulate, racemes very short, cocci 

 with two dorsal rows of spinules. Benth. FL Austral, v. 151. Micro- 

 stachys Ohamrelea, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 49 ; Dalz. $* Cribs. Bomb. FL 

 228. Cnemidpstachys Chamaelea, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 835. Stillingia 

 Chamsolt-a & asperccoeca, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 516, 517. Excoecaria 

 ChamaBlea, Jjuill. Adans. vi. 323. Cnemiclostachys linearifolia, Miquel FL 

 2nd. Bat. Suppl. 460. Elachocroton asperococcus, Ferd. Muell. in Hook. 

 Journ..Bot. ix. (1857) 17. Tragia Chamadea, Linn. Sp. PL 1391 ; Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 186 ; Wall. Cat. 7797. 



BKHAE; at Dunwah, J. D. H. ; Hazaribagh, &c., Clarke. DECCAN PENINSFLA, 

 from Bombay southwards. BURMA, MALACCA and SINGAPORE, Wallich, Griffith, 

 Maingay. CEYLON, common. DISTEIB. China, Malay Islands, Tropical Australia 

 and Africa. 



Stems usually many from the root, ascending 1-2 ft., slender, grooved ribbed or 

 terete, dichotomously branched. Leaves 1-3 in. by - i in., base acute ; petiole T \j in., 

 very slender. Male spikes axillary or leaf-opposed; bracts minute, acute with a 

 large often stipitate gland on each side, 1-2-fld. Fern. fl. usually solitary at the 

 base of the male, or lateral on the branches. Sepals minute, of the male ovate, 

 acute, ciliate ; of the fern, the larger, obovate, acute, lacerate and ciliate, 2-glau- 

 dular within. Capsule subglobosely oblong, thinly crustaceous, - in. diain. Seed 



