Coelodiscus.| EUPHORBIACER. 393 
nearly so, in short (not an inch long), tawny-tomentose, dense 
spikes resting on a short naked peduncle arising from the axils of 
the leaves; bracts longer than the flowers, conform with the sti- 
pules and linear-subulate ; male sepals 5, valvate, tawny-tomentose ; 
stamens numerous; disk 
size of a cherry, pale tawny-tomentose and densely covered with 
long, pilose, soft, subulate prickles, 5-3-coccous. 
Has.—Ava, in the Irrawaddi valley. —Fr. Sept. 
3. C. hirsutulus, Kz.—A leaf-shedding, low, simple-stemmed 
shrub or undershrub 1-2 ft. high, the compressed young branchlets 
hispid ; leaves almost orbicular, opposite, about 5-6 in. long an 
nearly as broad, cordate and almost obscurely maculate at the 7- 
. linear, somewhat longer than the calyx; male calyx more 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier upper mixed and the dry forests of the 
A aga from Prome to the Irrawaddi zone of Pegu.—Fl. Feb.—l.—S8.—CaS. 
4. C. glabriusculus, Kz.—A_ leaf-shedding, small, more or 
less branched shrub, about 2-4 ft. high, the branchlets compressed, 
the young shoots puberulous ; leaves opposite, elliptically ovate to 
broadly elliptical, rounded to almost cordate at the 8- to 7-nerved 
but prominent; male flowers small, glabrous and orange- 
coloured inside, tawny-tomentose outside, sessile, in small globular 
or oblong spikes or clusters in the axils of the leaves and above the 
Scars of the fallen ones ; sepals 3, 3-angular-ovate, acute ; stamens 
numerous, glabrous. 
Has.—Frequent in ixed forests, especially the drier ones, along 
Pang chiefly. i the i sid cabin Mutated TS Jan.-March.—l,— 
SS=SiS, Metam, 
Kz.—A leaf-shedding low shrub, 1 to 2 ft. 
_ oC. longi 
_ high, with a ie thick root, the young shoots shortly and densely 
