378 EUPHORBIACER. [ Aleurites. 
coriaceous, while young covered with a brownish or whitish minute 
stellate tomentum, soon glabrous and opaque ; flowers rather small, 
in diameter, fleshy, athe globose, ua smooth, * olive-coloured, 
containing 2 orsometimes a single, hard, 1-seeded, irregularly fur-, 
rowed nut; seeds very oily. 
= gt "agai cultivated in villages of Pegu and Tenasserim.—Fl. 
Spa -Hirudes gum, especially from the fruits. Seeds produce about 
50 per cent. of a lamp-oil called Kekuna in Hindustan, and plenty oil-cake, 
SYMPHYLLIA, Baill. 
Flowers monoecious. Calyx 3- to 5-parted, the male valvate, 
“ a imbricate in bud. Petals and disk wanting in both 
amens free, alternating with the sepals, inserted round a 
ochaniats ovary-rudiment ; anthers erect, 2-rimose. Ovary 3- or 
rarely 2-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell ; ; styles as many 
as ovary-cells, united in a a column, divaricately spreading, 
densely papillose-fimbriate—Shrubs, with simple penninerved leaves 
crowded at the end of the branchlets. Stipules minute. Flowers 
sessile or ay so, spiked, forming terminal poor panicles. 
Baill—An evergreen shrub, the young shoots 
more or less stellate-puberulous; leaves from spatulate- to oblong- 
lanceolate, on a strong, shortly paren glabrescent — 1-2 
lin. long, rounded or cordate at the narrowed base, from 3 to 8 in. 
long, acuminate, chartaceous, ais sails young sprinkled 
minute te hairs, soon glabrous ; flowers small, greenish white, 
sessile, clustered, in short greyish-tomentose spikes forming a ter- 
minal rather short panicle; male calyx glabrous or sprinkled with 
stellate hairs, the — one seach! larger, whitish stellate-pubes- 
cent, the lobes broad-oval, acute. 
Var. 1, Silhetana ae flowers soon glabrescent. 
Var. 2, trichantha, Muell. Arg: flowers densely greyish stel- 
late-pubescent. 
Has.— Var. 2: in Tenasserim. 
TREWIA, L. | 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx 3-4-parted, in the males valvate, in the 
females imbricate in bud. Petals aa disk in both sexes wanting. 
Stamens very numerous, free, on a central depressed-hemispherical — 
