Clcidion] XCVIII. EUPHOEBIACE.K 593 



Java. A glabrous evergreen middle-sized tree. 1. alternat •. c iriace >us, usually sinuate 

 I. blade 4-10, pet. 1-1 in. Fl. <j in long axillary racemes, cal. globose, splitting 

 into 3-4 valvate segments, stamens oo, on a conical receptacle, filaments free, anthers 

 4-celled, pistillode 0. 9 one or two on a long axillary peduncle, sepals 3-5 usually 

 deciduous, styles 2 or 3 united below, each with 2 or 3 long filiform arms. Capsule 

 didymous 1-li in. diam., peduncle 2-hI in. long. 2. C. nitidum, Thwaites. Andamans 

 (Kurz). Ceylon. Petiole under J in. 



Ricinus communis, Linn. The Castor Oil plant. Vern. Are'nd, Erandi, Hind. ; 

 Bin rcii'ln. Beng. : Bindi, Kol : Raralu, Kan. ; Amidam,T!e\.] Kyelsu, T&uxm. Probably 

 indigenous in Africa, cultivated and run wild in India. A soft-wooded tree, often 

 cultivated asan annual. L. peltate, palmately lobed, fl. monoecious, the 9 as a rule in 

 the upper, the <5 in the lower portion of erect racemiform i^anicles. Capsule as a rule 

 prickly, consisting of 3 nearly cylindrical lobes, rounded at the ends. 



41. HOMONOIA, Lour.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 455. 



Rigid shrubs, 1. alternate. Fl. apetalous, usually dioecious, iu axillary 



spikes, disk 0. J: Calyx globose splitting into 3 valvate segments, stamens 8, 

 filaments connate, branched, anther-cells nearly distinct, connective minute. 

 Pistillode 0. 9 : Sepals 5-8, imbricate, narrow, unequal, caducous. Ovary 3- 

 celled, styles entire papillose, spreading, cells 1-ovuled. Capsule loculicidally 

 3-valved. Species 3 or 4, Indo-Malayan. 



1. H. riparia, Lour.: Bedd. Manual t. xxiv. f. 1. — Syn. Adelia neriifolia, Both; 

 Wight Ic t. ls&s. Vc-rn. Slieran. Slierni, Mar.: Taniki. Tel.: KuUur, Vangi, Mai.; 

 Mm, nihil. Yetagyi, Lower, Yeni, Upper Burma. Bocky and stony river beds. Sikkim 

 (Baujit and Tista). Assam, Khasi hills. Upper and Lower Burma. Behar. Sing- 

 blu'nn. Bundelkhand. Central Provinces. Western Peninsula. — Ceylon. Malay 

 Penins. and Arehip. China. An evergreen gregarious shrub, resembling a willow. 

 branchlets, young leavesand inflorescence hairy. L. usually entire, linear-lanceolate, 

 Underside with scattered hairs and minute orbicular scales, blade 4-10, pet. J-i in. 

 PI, in axillary brocteate spikes, shorter than 1. Ovary pubescent, styles red. 2. H. retusa, 

 Muell. Arg. (Adelia relusa, Wight Ic. 1869). River beds, Western Peninsula, from the 

 Chande district south wards. Glabrous, 1. obovate oroblanceolate, dentate, rarely entire, 

 1-2 in., narrowed into very -Port petiole, underside with a few scattered shining scales, 

 spikes short, bracts subulate. 



Lasiococca symphyllisefolia, Hook. f. in Ic. Plant, t. 15S7. Damp forests of the lower 

 Darjeeling lulls, a middle-sized evergreen tree, stem fluted, wood close-grained. L. 

 glabrous, alternate, quite entire, sometimes in false whorls of 3, lanceolate, narrowed 

 into a broad cordate base, blade 3-0, p<et. J-j in. Fl. apetalous, monoecious, 6 in 

 axillary spikes, stamens x. in a dense glob. we head of branched filaments, anther-cells 

 divaricate, connective arching over top and side- of the cells. ? solitary, pedunCled, 

 in then], per leaf-axils, se].als.>-7. unequal, imbricate, persistent and enlarged in fruit. 

 styles 8 filiform, combined into a column below. Capsule densely clothed with rigid 

 multitid paleip. 



Sphjranthera capitellata, Hook. f. Ic. t. L702. — Syn. Codiosum lutescens, Kurz. Middle 



Audauiau in Bamboo forest. .\ large ever gi n shrub, probably dioecious, branchlets 



minutely pubescent. I ll. minute, crowded in small umbel- on a slender axillary 

 peduncle, supported by numerous minute pubescent imbricate bracts, sepals 1 valvate, 

 pubescent without, petals much -mailer than sepals, stamen- about 20. central, fila- 

 ments filiform, free, anther-cell- globose, distinct, ope at each end of the broad connec- 

 tive, i ll. and fr. unknown. 



Ordeb KCIX. ULMACEjE. Engl, in Engl. u. Prnntl iii. 1. 59. 



Urticacece, tribes 1. Ulmece, II. Celtidew. Gen. PI. III. 343. 



Trees or shrubs, sap watery, 1. undivided, distichous, stipulate. Fl. bisexual 

 or unisexual. Perianth alike in all ll., 4-9-lobed, stamens opposite to perianth- 

 lobes, rarely twice their number, anther-cells contiguous, parallel. Ovary of 

 2 carpels, usually L-celled, ovule 1. pendulous. Seeds without albumen. 



