Sapium. ] EUPHORBIACE. 953 
A perennial evergreen twiner. Beng. Bichati; Hind. 
Barhanta; Santal. Sengel sing. 
847. Cnesmone El. 
Clim mbing, villous shrubs; leaves alternate, oblong from 
ad cordate base, margin toothed ; stipules wide, ihtitente 
Flowers moncecious, in terminal or leaf-opposed, androgynous 
racemes ; ine simple ; male flowers uppermost inva female ; 
bracteoles 2. epals connate in a globose Wek aa oe into 
3 valvate jaban Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamen. alternate with 
calyx-lobes ; filaments stout, free ; anthers rae ae a 
thick, produced into a reflexed lamina ; ee —- discrete. 
Pistillode obscure or 0. ¢ Se pals 8, enlar in fruit. Petals 0. 
Disk 0. Carpels connate in a strigose datint 3-celled ovary ; 
ovules ibiters in each cell; tayle it Fiemaka arms 8, connate 
al e base in a fleshy mass, free, incurved above and fimbriate 
within, Fruit a 3- dymous capsule, separating into three 2-valved 
cocci. Seeds globose ; testa crustaceous, with a fleshy coat; albu- 
men fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat 
I CNESMONE JAVANICA Bl. ; F. B. I. v. 466. 
E. Bengal. 
An evergreen, perennial twiner. 
848. Sapium P. Br. 
Trees and shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire serrate or toothed, 
Penninerved; petiole often 2-glandular at the apex. Flower 
see Wipes in terminal, simple or branched spikes or racemes ; 
Perianth simple ; males above, several in each bract, females in 
lower part of spikes or in separate spikes, ered in the bracts. 
$ Sepals connate in a membranous calyx, shortly 2-3-lobed or 
0. Disk 0. Stamens 2 or 3; filaments free; anthers with ovoid, 
distinct but contiguous, parallel cells. Pistillode 0. ? Sepals 
connate in a 8-fid or 3-partite calyx. Petals 0. Disk 0. Carpels 
connate in a 2-3-celled ovary ; ovules solitary in 5am cell ; styles 
free or connate at the base, spreading and recurved, entire. Frwit 
& crustaceous capsule, fleshy or pulpy, rarely ais: ultimately 
loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds globose ; strophiole 0; usually long- 
attached to the ete ; testa crustaceous; albumen fleshy ; 
cotyledons broad, fl 
