Givotia] XCVIII. EUPHORBIACE.E 579 



Stamens 13-25 on a woolly receptacle, filaments connate at base, hairy below, 

 pistillode 0. 9 : Disk cupular, ovary stellately hairy, 2-3-celled, ovule 1 in 

 each cell. Fruit a subglobose drupe, f— 1 in. diam. Seed 1, cotyledons fiat, 

 broad, in a fleshy albumen. 



F 1 1 ; . ls-2. — Givotia rottleriformis, Griff, i. 



Dry forests on the Western Ghats ami on the hills of tin- IVeean. Mysore, ami 

 K:n natik. PI. U.S. — Ceylon, dry reg - 



Platystigma myriaticeum, Boh. Brown; Book. Ic PI. t. 17<>7. Silhet. Ilram-hrs 



WOOdy, branchlets minutely i-u st \ -j.i 1 1 i.--....n 1 . 1. : 1 1 1 ■ ■ r i ] .• 1 1 • ■ . curiae i> . j 1 1 i I . ■ entire, 



Made 5 7. pet. V -1 ill. PI. diii'ei'nis. ~.-.-Ui' nr >lmr!ly |ir.|ieelled, in short axillary 



bracteate panicles. 3 ■ sep. I 5, Imbricate, pet. 4-6 ovate, valvate, stamens 4 5, oppo- 

 site i" petals, filaments very short, anthers parallel. 9: on stout pedicels, sepals b 

 broadly ovate, imbricate, pet. 0, ovarj rusty-tomentose, L-ce) led, ovule 1. stigma sessile 



t hiek, liroailor I lian ovar\ . 



Microdesmiscasearisefolia, I'laneli.in. Tenasserim. Malaj Penins. and Archip. China. 

 A small evergreen tree, branchlets and young 1. minutely pubescent, 1. alternate, 



distichous, broadlj Ian late, blade I 5, pet. J in. Fl. dioecious, minute, in axillary 



clusters, sepals 5 small, pet. 5, twisted and imbricate. {'• stamens L0, alternately 

 shorten, connective apiculate, pistillode columnar, v: ovary ^lalir.ms, 2-eelleil, fr. 

 red, glol J ! in. diam. 



23. TRIGONOSTEMON, Blame; PI. Brit. bid. v. 896. 



Kver^reen shrubs or small trees, 1. alternate, ponnincrved. PI. monoecious, 



in racemes or panicles, ;is a rule lateral or axillary. Sepals ,->, imbricate, 

 petals ■"', sometimes more in 9> disk oJ 5 glands, often united in a lobed cup. 



