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392 EUPHORBIACER. [ Coelodiscus. 
COELODISCUS, Baill. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx valvate, in the males 4-5-parted, in 
the females 3-5-cleft. Petals none. Hypogynous disk none or de- 
veloped. Stamens numerous, on a depressed-concave receptacle or 
round a central disk, free or variously and shortly polyadelphous; 
anthers 2-rimose, the connective not produced. Ovary-rudiment 
none. Ovary 5-3-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell; styles 
as many as ovary-cells, simple, papillose. Capsule 5-2-coccous, dry. 
Seeds almost globular, shortly arillate-—Shrubs, with alternate or 
opposite simple leaves 3- to 7-nerved at the base. Flowers small, 
in axillary clusters, short spikes or racemes, the flower-buds always 
apiculate. 
Flowers pedicelled or sessile, in elongate racemes or spikes. 
Flowers sessile, in elongate interrupted spikes . : é . C. eriocarpoides. 
Flowers on long pedicels, in racemes. ; . ‘ “ - C. longipes. 
* > Flowers sessile, in clusters or very dense short 
spikes. 
O Leaves pubescent on both sides. 
Capsules the size of a cherry, densely and softly muricate, the soft 
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pubescent prickles about 3 lin. | a > : . &. lappaceus. 
eaves glabrescent or almost glabrous. 
Petiole 1-3 in. long; branched shrub, : ; ‘ : - C. glabriusculus. 
Petiole 4 to 12 in. long; simple-stemmed low shrub ‘ . . C. hirsutulus, 
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1. C. eriocarpoides, 
tawny puberulous ; leaves obovate to ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse 
cuously 3-nerved base (the 2 lateral basal nerves almost marginal), 
on a puberulous petiole $ to nearly 14 in. long, acuminate, 3 to 6 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim. 
la eer Kz.—An evergreen shrub, all softer parts 
2. C. lap 
densely and s ortly stellate-pubescent ; leaves opposite or nearly so, 
elliptically oblong fa ovate-elliptical, rounded or obtuse at the 5 or 
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anous, 2 in. 
rough above, beneath shortly and densely stellate-pubescent an 
strongly nerved and transversely veined ; flowers small, sessile or 
