EUPHORBIACE^. 195 



nerved; flowers in compound terminal cymiferous racemes. [India 

 or Zeylania '). 



34. BaliospennumBL.^ — Flower (nearly of Codiœum) raonœcious 

 apctalous ; receptacle shortly convex. Sepals 5 (or more rarely 4,0), 

 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 margin. Disk in 

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

 mon 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 subentire 

 penniuerved ; flowers in axillary racemes, more or less ramified 

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

 reciu'ved.^ {Australia and Trop, and Buh-Trop. Oceania.'^) 



35. Sumbavia H. Bn.^ — Flowers (nearly of Givotia or Balio- 

 spermum), monœcious, 5-merous ; male calyx valvate. Pétale 5, often 

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

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

 thers subbasifixed erect ; cells adnate introrsely rimose. Female 

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

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

 erect, afterwards 3-fid ; branches circinate-revolute, 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. 0. rottleriformis Griff, loc. cit. — Voy. t. 155. — Wight, Icon. t. 1885. — Wall. 

 WiaHT. Icon. t. 1889.— Thw. Etmm. PI. Zeyl. Cat. n. 7727 (Ricinus). — Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 682. 

 278. — Govania iiivea Wall. loc. cit. {Ciotoii). — Wall. Cat. n. 7727 A. [Ricinus), 



- Bijdr. 603.— Endl. Oen. n. 6823.— H. Bn- 7827 (Croton). 



Euphorb. 394.— M. Arg. Prodr. 1125. 5 Euphorb. 390.— M. Aug. Pndr. 12T.—Do. 



' A genus differing much from Siiregada by ryxhjon Zoll. in Linncea, xxix. 469 (1859). 



inflorescence and aril. * Habit,etc.,of £c/M««\,from whichitscarcely 



* Spec. 4, 5. W. Spec. iv. 563 {Jatropha). — differs by petals being present. 



Geisel. Crot. Monogr. 74 (Cco<o«).— Spbeno. ' Spec. 2. M. Arg, in Flora (1864), 482, 

 Syst. ii. 646 (Hedycarya). — Decne. in Jacqwm. 



