Briedelia.] EUPHORBIACER. 367 
minous. _Cotyledons broad, complanate, the radicle very short.— 
ees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, with simple alternate leaves. 
Flowers minute, bracted, in spikes or clusters. - 
* . segs Ripe fruits more or less 
oO KX ~ Sebo and shoots pubescent or ‘tomentose. 
+ Flow ers sessile, 
Leaves small, glau —_ pose ier and emma: — beneath ; 
flowers glabrous or nearly so . B, tomentosa. 
Tissier, pedicelled. 
Leaves thin-chartaceous, one-coloured, pubescent beneath ; flowers 
ary, —_, tomentose . B. pubescens. 
Leaves thin-c us, glauces cent and minutely puber erulous be- 
He Np icscly net-veined ; flowers cee the clusters in 
axillary, simple or panicled racemes . B. retusa, 
OO Ali . 
Leaves blunt or rounded; bracts of flower-clusters glabrou 
flowers -oradian the females Pee so shortly —_ elled ie: amena 
Leaves abruptly and shortly acuminate or apiculate; bracts of 
ower-clusters ersich pubescent flowers glabrous, the females 
almost sessile . . B. ovata. 
* * seats scandent or very rarely erect. Ripe Fruits 
Tass elliptical. 
Leaves bluntish ; ‘calyx labrous or slightly pubescent, enlarging 
un — the fruit ig 3 emale flowers shortly pedicelled; disk 
ooth . B. stipularis. 
Eien ch hortly acuminate ; calyx densely pubescent; flowers ses- 
sile; disk round the fruit pilose . B. dasycalyz. 
. B. tomentosa, BI. — evergreen tree - gee +emall-+ 
leaves ; cal Pe glabra: the lobes 3-angular, acute, about ri a line 
long ; yer he rotundate, toothed ; disk orbicular, slightly lobed ; 
aig globular, the size of a pepper-kernel, sappy, smooth, bluish 
HaB.—Frequent all over Burma from Arracan and Prome down to Tenas- 
serim, in the open dry and upper mixed baa: rarely entering the drier savannah 
Inngles, up to 2,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. B.S.; Fr. D.S.—s+1L.—SS.=o CaS. 
ReMarxKs.—Wood pale greyish brown, heavy, close-grained, soft. 
2. B. pubescens, Kz.—Kyek-ta-yau.—An evergreen tree (2 
—30 +8—12 +2—3) - all softer pare pubescent ; leaves elliptically 
obovate-oblong, rounded or obtuse at the base, on a pubescent 
SS about 2 lin. long, shortly and abruptly acuminate or apicu- 
oa one-eoloured, entire, above glabrous or almost 
