568 X-CVIII. EUPHORBIACE^ [Cyclostemon 



II. Stenogynium. Stamens 6-8. Ovary 2-celled, styles as a rule 2, slender, 

 stigma pieltate. Fl. axillary. 



9. C. Griffitnii, Hook. f. Vern. Thit'egyin, Burm. Mishmi hills, Assam. Upper 

 Burma, evergreen hill forests 3-7,000 ft. A large tree, wood hard, light brown. L. 

 membranous or thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, blad6 

 4-7, pet. J— § in. Fr. ellipsoid, clothed when young with deciduous velvet, 1 in. long, 

 yellow when ripe, crowned with the remains of the styles, pedicel slender up to 2 in. long, 

 10. C. lancifolius, Hook. f. Sikkim, ascending to 5,000 ft. Khasi hills. A tree with 

 long slender branches. Young shoots glabrous, 1. lanceolate, margins thickened, blade 

 4 -6, pet. \- J in. long, large glabrous lanceolate buds \-\ in. long in the leaf-axils. 

 Bl. S and °. in pubescent axillary racemes. Br. 2-celled, 1 in. pedicel 1 in. long, 

 thickened at apex. 11. C. iiidicus, Muell. Arg. Khasi hills. B. glabrous, obliquely 

 ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, blade 3-5, pet. J in. long. $ fl. minute, solitary 

 or 2-3 together, pedicels capillary up to J in. long. 12. C. subsessilis, Kurz. Arakan. 

 Thaukyeghat forest, frequent (Kurz). A small tree, 1. glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, 

 blade 6-9, pet. J— | in. Fl. $ minute nearly sessile; clusters axillary or above the 

 scars of fallen 1. Br. orange coloured, minutely velvety, §-f in., pedicels ^ in. long. 



14. BREYNIA, Forst. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 329. 



Shrubs or small trees, 1. small, alternate, quite entire. Fl. small, monoecious, 

 petals and disk 0. $ : Calyx turbinate or hemispheric, rim of tube thickened, 

 lobes 6, small, sometimes with an inner series, opposite to the outer segments. 

 Anthers 3, linear, adnate for their entire length to the central column, cells 

 parallel. 5 : Calyx coriaceous, hemispheric or rotate, persistent and often 

 enlarged in fruit, lobes 6, broad. Ovary 3-celled, styles 3, bifid, or 3 minute 

 stigmas in the cavity at the toj) of the ovary. Fr. more or less succulent, 

 globose or depressed, indehiscent or 6-valved, cocci 3-6 triquetrous. Species 

 15, tropical Asia, Australia and Pacific islands. 



1. B. patens, Benth. — Syn. Melanthesopsis patens, Muell. Arg. : M. obliqua, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1898 ; M. truncata, Wight Ic. t. 1897. Vern. Kangli, Mar. Subhimalayantract, 

 ascending to 3,000 ft., from Nepal eastwards. Assam. Khasi hills, Manipiir. Cachar. 

 Chittagong, Burma, Upper and Lower. Western Beninsula. BJ. March-May. — 

 Ceylon. A deciduous entirely glabrous shrub, branchlets quadrangular, 1. elliptic, 

 usually obtuse, turning black in drying, J— 1 in., pet. very short. Bl. greenish-yellow, 

 S on short filiform pedicels, staminal-column produced beyond anthers, acute. ? : 

 Style stout with 3 forked arms. Br. seated on the greatly enlarged coloured calyx, 

 depressed, J-| in. diam., orange-red, fleshy but dehiscent. 2. B. angustifolia, Hook. f. 

 Begu. Tenasserim. Malay Benins. Branchlets terete, 1. oblong or linear-oblong 

 J— 1 in. long, fr. J in. diam. 3. B. rhamnoides, Muell. Arg. — Syn. Melanihesa rhamnoides, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1898. Vern. Yellari, Tel. Oudh Borests. Gangetic plain. Bengal. 

 Western Beninsula. Andamans. Arakan, chiefly near the sea (Kurz). — Ceylon, 

 common in the moist region. Malay Beninsula and Archipelago, China. A large 

 shrub or small tree, wholly glabrous. L. ovate, or elliptic 1-li long, pet. very short. 

 Bl. solitary on short pedicels. 6 : Staminal-column truncate. Br. purple, globose, 

 J in. diam., calyx hardly enlarged. 



15. SAUROPUS, Blume; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 332. 



Shrubs or undershrnbs, 1. alternate, distichous, membranous, quite entire. 

 Fl. monoecious, apetalous. c? : calyx 6-lobed, lobes thickened at base, and 

 often concave with an appendix vaulting over stamens. Stamens united into 

 a short fleshy truncate 3-armed column, the anthers attached to the ends of 

 the arms and opening downwards, cells parallel. ? : calyx 6-cleft, persistent, 

 accrescent, ovary 3-celled, styles bifid. Species 20, Indo-Malayan region. A 

 few only of the more common species can here be noticed. 



A. Eusauropus. L. B|-4 in. long, styles on the apex of an ovoid ovary. 



1. S. albicans, Blume. — Syn. S. indicus, Wight ; S. zeylanicus. Wight Ic. t. 1952 ; S. 

 Gardneriamis, Wight Ic. t. 1951. Sikkim and Bhutan, foot of Himalaya and outer 

 hills, ascending to 5,000 ft. .Khasi hills. Cachar. Burma. Anamalai hills. Travan- 

 core. — Ceylon, moist region. Malay Benins. and Archip. China. A small shrub with 

 a simple stem and numerous elongated branches, quite glabrous, 1. ovate-oblong or 



