EUPHORBIACE^. 195 



nerved; flowers in compoimd terminal cymifei'ous racetnes. [India 

 or Zeylanla '). 



34. BaliospermumBL.- — Flower (nearly of Codiceum) raoncBcious 

 apetalous ; receptacle shortly convex. Sepals 5 (or more rarely 4, G), 

 imbricated. Glands same in number or unequally connate, exterior 

 to andi-oceum. Stamens oo, central ; filaments free or connate at 

 base, at apex dilated in basifixed connective ; anther cells lateral or 

 first extrorse, 2-rimose, adnate to connective at margia. Disk in 

 female flower shortly urcoolate, unequally or subequally crenate. Ger- 

 men 3-4-locular ; cells 1-ovulate; style afterwards divided in 3, 4 

 branches, rather thick patulous recurved, 2-lobed above. Fruit 

 capsular, 3-4-coccous ; seeds smooth ; exostome thickly arillate. — 

 Shrubs or herbs lignescent at base subglabrous or glabrous ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate glandular 2-stipulate repando- dentate or subentii'e 

 pennuierved ; flowers in axUlary racemes, more or less ramified 

 cymiferous ; sexes mixed or female below ; fruit-bearing pedicels 

 rcciu'ved.^ {Australia and Trop. and Suh-Trop. Oceania.^) 



3o. Sumbavia H. BN.^^Flowers (nearly of Givotia or Balio- 

 spcrmiDii), monoecious, 5-merous ; male calyx valvate. Petale 5, often 

 small, imbricate. Stamens co, inserted round convex receptacle, 

 thickened into rudimentary disk outside ; filaments free erect ; an- 

 thers subbasifixed erect ; cells adnate introrscly rimose. Female 

 calyx 6-partite ; folioles valvate or slightly imbricated ; petals 6, 

 much shorter than ia the male flower. Germen 3-locular ; style 

 erect, afterwards 3-fid ; branches cii'ciaate-re volute, inwardly at apex 

 stigmatiferous. "Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds arillate." — Trees ^ un- 

 armed or subspinose ; indumentum subfloccose stellate ; leaves al- 

 ternate petiolate pennineived, 3-plinerved at base, entire or repando- 

 dentate ; flowers in terminal racemes ; female few (1-3) inferior or ; 

 bracts 1 -floral. (East India, Ind. Arch., Java?) 



' Spec. 1. Q. rottkriformis Gs.lYY.loc.cit. — Voy. t. 156.— Wight, Icun. t. 1885. — Wall. 



Wight. Icon. t. 1889.— Thw. Ehum. PL Zeijl. Cat. n. 7727 (i?(Vi«!M).— Roxn. Fl. Ind. iii. 682. 



278. — Govania i.ivea Wall. he. cit. {C'inlon).—'W A.I.I.. Cat. n. 7727 A {liiciiiii.i), 



■ llijdr. G03.— EvDL. Ocn. n. 6823.— H. B.n- 7827 {Croton). 



Euph'irh. 391.-11. Aug. Prodr. 1125. » Euphorb. 390.— M. Aug. Prudr. '21.— Do- 



' A genus differing much horn. Suregada by ryxbjnn Zoll. in Linnaa, x.\ix. 469 (18.59). 



inQorescence and aril. " Habit,etc.,ofJS<;/a/,M«,from which itscarcely 



* Spec. 4, 5. W. Spec. iv. 5G3 {Jatrophn). — differ.s by petals being present. 



Oeisel. Crot, Monogr. 74 {Croton). — SriiENO. ' Spec. 2. M. Aug. in Flora (18G4), 482. 

 8i/»t. ii. 646 (Hedgcarga). — Decnb. in Jacquem, 



