Hemicyclia] XCVIII. EUPHORBIACE.E 567 



24-25, glabrous, inserted round a broad orbicular crenate disk. 5. H. Wightii, Hook, 

 f. Nilgiris. Nearly glabrous, 1. narrow, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, entire or ob- 

 scurely crenate, fr. J in. long, pedicel sborter than fr. (not seen). 6. H. sp. nova. 

 Bourdillon 227, 534. Travancore, evergreen forest, 1,000ft. (H. lanceolata, Thwaites, 

 Gamble In. 1. Timb. ed. ii. 605). A middle-sized or largo tree, branchlets and petioles 

 minutely pubescent, 1. coriaceous, dentate, blade 2-3, pet. J in. PI. S (in bud) sessile. 

 sepals glabrous, edge fimbriate and minutely ciliate, stamens 8, glabrous. Fr. J-J in. 

 lone, L-relled, 1-seeded, pericarp succulent, endocarp crustaeeous, cotyledons large in a 

 fleshy albumen, pedicels shorter than fr. H. lanceolata, a Ceylon species, has 1. entire, 

 long acuminate. 



B. Eastern species, imperfectly known. 



7. H. sumatrana, Muell. Arg. Plains of Pegu and Martaban, not unfrequent in 

 marshy places (Kurz). A middle-sized entirely glabrous tree, 1. dentate, fr. obtuse at 

 botli ends, J, pedicel J in. long. 8. H. andamanica, Kurz. Coast forests of the Anda- 

 mans, frequent in low places (Kurz). A middle-sized glabrous tree. 1. nearly entire, 

 fr. g, pedicel J-J in. long. 



13. CYCLOSTEMON, Blitme : Fl. Brit. Lid. v. 339. 



Evergreen trees, 1. alternate usually coriaceous. Fl. dioecious, apetalous, 

 axillary or on the old wood, sepals 3-6, broad, imbricate, often supported by a 

 number of small imbricate bracts. 6 ■ Stamens 6-8 or x, inserted round a 

 Hat or depressed disk. 9 : disk usually aunular, ovary hairy '2-4-celled, 

 stigmas in most species sessile, broad flesh}', two collateral ovules from the 

 apex of each cell under a fleshy excrescence of the placenta i caruncle). Fr. 

 Lndehiscent, '2 -celled, often supported by the persistent calyx or the remains 

 of it, seeds solitary in each cell, or one only by abortion, cotyledons broad in a 

 fleshy albumen. Species 20, Africa, India, Malay Archipelago. 



I. Eucyclostemon. Stamens numerous, stigmas 2, large sessile. 



A. Fl. axillary. 



L. C. assamicus, Hook, f . Vern. Cfiipla, Dun; A""' behula, Kum.; Ban-lokal, Beng- 

 Subhimalayan tract fp.intlie Dehra Dim east wards. Assam. Singhbi'im. Sundriban. 

 Chittagong. Andamans. Coco island. A small tree, branchlets slender, glabrous, 1. 

 quite entire, shining, elongate-ellipt ie, blade 1-8, pet. | in. Fr. scarlet, nearly sessile, 

 velvety, laterally compressed with 'J furrows, almost 2-lohcd, !,-■[ in. long. 2. C. 

 eglandulosus, Kurz. Tippera, Chittagong, Arakan, ran 1 (Kurz) A middle-sized 

 i ie,.. branchlets glabrous, 1. elliptic, caudate-acuminate, blade 2— i, pet. t~iin. PL ? in 



axillary few-fid. panicles, pedicels velvety, jj in. long, sepals -1, velvety on both surfaces, 

 unequal, t lie larger ,| in. lone;. Two imperfectly known sp. coll. by I >r. Heller ls:i7. 

 either in Tenasserim or on the Andamans, S. C. Helferi, lh»>k. f. L. glabrous, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, repand denticulate, blade i-i;. pet. \ in., veins prominently reticulate, fr. 

 velvety, crowned by a large fleshy stigma, pedicel A in. long. I. C. ellipticus, Hook. f. 

 I>. glabrous, thinly corii s, elliptic, acuminate, blade I 5, pet. | in, $ il. pub- 

 escent, on short pedicels, axillary and on t be old wood, sepals ^ in. long. 



5. C. Jaintensis, i '. B. Clarke MSS. in herb. Kew, Jowai, Jaintio hills, 3,500 ft. A 

 tree, si em with si rone prickles, youngest shoots finely silky. 1. membn as, denticu- 

 late, fr. sessile, solitary, always axillary, ellipsoid, velvety,j in. long, 2-celled, bin 



i seeded, supported by the 3 round persistent sepals and crowned by the stigma, con- 

 sisting of - sessile circular plates I B. unknown, bence position In the genus uncerta 



I!. Fl. all on the old w I. 



6. C. macrophyllus, Hh (including C. zeylanicut, Baill.) ; Bedd. Pi. Sylv. t. 278. 



Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats front Coorg southwards. Common on the 



A lalais. Western Duars (D. Ii. Feb. 1^71' . Andamans, Malaj Peninsula. 



Ceylon. Java. A middle-sized tree, si ften attaining a large diameter, branches 



spreading. STonngest shoots with deciduous brow n ba irs, I. glabrous, elliptic-oblong, 

 usually entire, blade 6 12, pet. sioin. i | in. i-i. sessile (Coorg, Western Duars), 

 pedicellate (Travancore, Andamans, Ceylon, Malay Penins.). Pedicels and sepals ha Iry, 



sepals I or 5. Pli ata enlarged, fleshy, resembling a hood on the 2 collateral ovules. 



Fr. pubescent, yellow when ri [«■. nearly globose, , 1 m. diam. T. c. maiabaricus, Bedd. 

 Xinnevelli ghats. Branchlets, young I. and il. golden-tomentose, sepals I. fr, toinentose, 

 pedicel i in. lone. 8. C. conferttnorus, Book, f, Vern. Aupai mora, Kan. North 

 Kanara, evergreen forests, A large tree, quite glabrous, I. elliptic-oblong, blade 6 8, 

 pet. stout, 1 in. 3 B. sessile in dense clusters, disk depressed, funnel-shaped, glabrous, 

 radiatolv ribbed, with o membranous lobed border. 



