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Leaves broadly peltate, densely pul)eoent, orbicular-ovate ; oapsuleB pednnoled, tomentoee 



and glandular, M. Roxbiirghii. 



-j- -j- Capsules densely yellowish glandular, otherwise glabrous. Leaves 

 more or less narrowed towards the base. 

 t Leaves peltate. 



Young parts and leaves beneath puberulous, ,... ..M. acuminatus, 



t t Leaves not peltate. 



Young parts and leaves beneath puberulous ; petioles long and slender, JU. HelferL 



All parts quite glabrous ; petioles proportionally short, M. muricatus. 



MACARANBA. 



* Leaves ample, broadly peltate at base. Capsule unarmed. 



K Female flowers and capsules shorter or longer pedicelied. h>fl(rc8cence a 

 panicle. 

 Bracts minute, broadly ovate, acute, shorter than the flower-clusters ; capsules usually 2- 



cocoous, M.iJeuticulntn. 



Bracts linear, in the males with a fleshy diekoid gland terminated in a subulate appendage, 



in the females the gland often wanting ; capsules l-coccous, M. Indica. 



X X Male flowers in panicles, females in simple spiles, sessile. 



Bracts leafy, toothed or pectinate, acuminate, 2-4 lin. long, without gland, in females larger ; 

 ovary 2^celled, appressed hirsute, , ,.., ......M. mollivscula. 



* * Leaves not peltate. 



yi. Male flowers in bract-less panicles, females forming a terminal long -ped uncled 

 bracted head. 

 Branchlets glabrous ; styles | an in. long ; capsules 2-coccous, red-glandular and laxly 



Bubulate-muricate, M. membranaeea. 



X X Male flowers ui leafy but small-bracted sle)uler panicles ; females tm- 

 hioion. 



Branchlets densely puberulous ; flowers 2 androus, M. minntiflora. 



CIEIOION. Only species, C Jatanictim. 



BLUMEODENDROH.-Only species, ..i?. Tokbrai. 



HYMENDCARDIA 



Leaves 1-1 J in. long, male spikes up to | in. long ; stamens 6, S. Wallichit. 



Leaves 3-5 in. long ; male racemes up to 6 in. long ; stamens numerous, H. plicata. 



CLAOXYLON. 



* Capsule minutely or conspicuously puberulous or velvety, rarely glabrous. 



Capsules peduncled, contracted in a short stalk, greyish puberulous, C. hngifolium. 



* * Capsule densely covered with soft pubescent or lUrsute prickles. 



Leaves penninerved, scabrous but not hairy, , .....C. loogipetiolafws. 



Leaves ample ; 3- or almost 5-nerved at base and strongly veined, hispid rough above, 



stellate-pubescent beneath, C. leucocarpum. 



RICINOS. Only species, i R. eommunie. 



JATROPHAi (if'ace* not peltate). 



Leaves angular-lobed, the lobes and stipules entire, ./. Curcas. 



Leaves palmately lobed, the lobes glandular-toothed, the stipules long glandular- 

 bristly J. glandutifera. 



Leaves digitately multifid, the lobes entire or lobed ; stipules long hair-like lacerate without 

 glands, J. multiflda. 



OSTODES. 



Leaves not distichous ; flowers panicled, .............0. paniculcilg. 



Leaves distichous ; flowers in axillary clusters, ........, 0. Heifer i. 



8ALEARI4. Only species, ......,.,, G. WalUchii. 



mCRODESIIIIiS. Only species, ......". M. caseariaefolia. 



CHAETOC ARPUS. Only species, A. castaneaecarpa. 



fiELONIUM. 



Stigmas large, 2-cloft, the lobes toothed ; capsules the size of a cherry, 3-coccous ; pedicel* 



glabrous, Q, multiflorion. 



Stigmas minute, sessile, 2-cleft ; capsules usually didymous, the siee of a pea ; pedicels 



puberulous, G. bifarium. 



