185 77. EUPHORBIAGE^. [Cleidioti. 



CLEIDION, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves simple, alternate. Flowers dioecious, males in 

 racemes, females solitary, axillary. Calyx 3-0-partite, valvate in. 

 the males, imbricate in the females. Stamens numerous, on a coni- 

 cal, central receptacle ; anthers peltately attached, 4-celled ; connect- 

 ive' produced. Ovary 2-3-celled; cells 1-ovuled; styles filiform, 

 2-cleft. Capsule 2-3-coccous. Seeds with fleshy albumen. 



C. javanicum, Blume Bijd. 613 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 444 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 272; Eotthra uranda, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 230. Evergreen I'oresta 

 of the Konkan and North Kanara, common in the Ainshi ghat forests. 

 Fl. Oct., Dec. Fr, Jan., Feb. 



MACARANGA, Thouars. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, large, peltate, entire or lobed. 

 Flowers dioecious, in panicles, racemes or spikes. Calyx in males 

 valvate, in females imbricate. Petals and disc wanting. Stamens 1 

 or more, central, on a convex receptacle ; anthers peltately attached, 

 3-4-celled. Ovary 2-6-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Fruit a small 1-5-celled, 

 often glandular capsule. Seeds globose ; albumen fleshy. 



Male bracts with a glandular appendage ; female bracts without glands. 



t5tamen3«-8 M.indka. 



Bracts broad, toothed, tomentose ; smaller in the female. 



Stamens 2-3 — M.Roxhurghii, 



M. indica, Wight, Ic. t. 1883 and 1949, f. 2 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 446 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 287. From the Konkan southwards. Fl. Br. I.; " very com- 

 mon in the western forests of the Madras Presidency," Beddome; not- 

 Been in North Kdnara by me. 



M. Boxburghii, Wight Ic. t. 1949, f . 4 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 448; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 228 ; M. iomentosa, Beddome. Fl. SyW. t. 287. 

 Chanda, Vern. Throughout the moist forests of the Konkan and North 

 Kanara, very common. Fl. Feb., March. Fr. April, May. 



HOMONOIA. Lour. 



Shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipules deciduous. Flowers dioecioua, 

 in spikes or racemes or the females solitary. Calyx of males 3-par- 

 tite and valvate, of the females 5-partite and imbricate. Petals and 

 disc 0. Stamens numerous in a dense globose head of branched 

 filaments. Ovary 3-4-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 3-4, connate at 

 the base, simple. Fruit a 3-4-eelled capsule ; albumen fleshy. 



Leaves lanceolate. Hpikes long, slender II. riparia. 



Leaves obovate. Bpikes short, stout H. retusa. 



H. riparia, Lour. Fl. Cocb. 6 37 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 455 ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 401 • Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 212 ; AdeliO' neriifoUa, Roth., Dalz. & Gibs Bomb. 

 Fl. 231. In the beds of rivers and streams throughout the presidency, 

 Tery common in Konkan and North Kanara rivers. Fl. Nov., March. 



