394 EUPHORBIACER. [ Coelodiscus. 
soft-pubescent, the older branchlets compressed, slightly pubescent ; 
leaves opposite, variable, from. almost orbicular to obovate-ellipti- 
eal, rounded or rarely almost cordate at the 9- to 5-nerved base, on 
a pubescent glabrescent petiole 4-3 in. long, abruptly acute or 
slightly acuminate, 3-4 in. long and sometimes nearly as broad, 
membranous, while young pubescent beneath and, stellate-puberu- 
lous on the nerves and veins, more or less glabrescent, the nerva- 
tion thin ; flowers orange-yellow, on pubescent pedicels of 1 to 2 
and even more inches length, forming pubescent racemes arising 
from the base of the stem or from the axils of the leaves or from 
tomentose, 3-cleft, the segments 3-angular-ovate; stamens very 
numerous, glabrous; ovary muricate and stellately hispid, 3- or 2- 
celled ; stigmas 3 or 2, sessile, crimson-papillose ; capsules resting on 
the elongate 2-4 in. lon uncle, 3- and 2-coccous, minutely but 
densely tawny-stellate-hispid, shortly muricate, the cocci of the 
size of a pea; seeds almost spherical, dull-brown and opaque, with a 
white fleshy aril at the base. 
Has.— Frequent in the drier upper mixed, the Eng and dry forests, from Ava 
a ore down to Pegu.—Fl. Jan.-March ; Fr, March-Apr—l.—SS.= 
HYMENOCARDIA, Endl. 
Flowers dioecious, the males in eatkin-like spikes. Calyx 5- 
parted or rarely 5-7-toothed, persistent, valvate in bud. Petals — 
and disk wanting. Males: stamens 5 or numerous; filaments at 
the base united round an ovary-rudiment; anthers ovoid, 2-rimose. 
Females: ovary 2-celled, more or less compressed, with a solitary 
shrubs, the young parts more or less orange-gland-dotted, with sim- : 
ple leaves. Male flowers in densely bracted catkin-like spikes, the 
females solitary or in poor cymes or racemes. 
Leaves 1-23 in. long; mal : : ichii. 
Leaves 2 in long male face up to 6'Me logs stances 
numerous re A ‘ 2 z . A. plicata. 
1. H. Wallichii, Tul.—Ye-Zin.—A tree (15—25+3—64+1— 
3), often remaining a shrub of 6-10 ft, high, leafless in H:S., the 
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