Cleidion.| ° EUPHORBIACER. 391 
tary in the axils of the leaves ; ovary slightly puberulous, the styles 
and their branches unusually long; capsules ona 3 to 4 in. long 
peduncle, usually 3- or 2-coccous, about an inch in diameter, glab- 
rous; seeds almost spherical, smooth, white-variegated, the size of 
a large pea, opaque. 
Ha uent in the tropical forests, from Chittagong and Martaban 
down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. Feb.-March; Fr. May-June.—s. 
—8S.—Metam. SiS. 
REMARKS.— Wood uniformly white or yellowish, rather heavy, fibrous, but 
close-grained, soft, takes good polish, but is perishable. 
2. O. nitidum, Thw.—An evergreen small tree, all parts quite 
glabrous ; leaves broadly to elliptically lanceolate, on a strong 2-3 
lin. long petiole, acuminate at both ends, repand-toothed from 
globular in bud. 
i Has.—Rather rare in the tropical forests of South Andaman.—Fl. Apr.- 
ay.—s. : 
BLUMEODENDRON, Kz. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx of the males valvate, 3-parted. Petals 
none. Disk in the males gland-like. Stamens numerous, free, on an 
elevated central receptacle. Ovary-rudiment none. Ovary 3-celled, 
with a solitary ovule in each cell. Capsule large, fibrous-woody, 
1. B, Tokbrai, 
6), all parts glabrous; leaves obovate to obovate-oblong, on a 1- 
Pp 
rather small, glabrous, pedicelled, in short racemes; hypogynous 
lands minute, thick, orbicular-ovate ; filaments free ; capsules 
almost, globose, 2- or 3-coccous, divided by an elevated line, about 
1-14 in. across, fibrous-woody, brown, glossy ; seeds purple, covered 
Haz.— 
March-Apr.—s.—88,=Si 
