St toa 
396 : EUPHORBIACER. [ Claoaylon. 
Flowers small, forming axillary simple or branched racemes or 
spikes. 
* Capsule minutely or conspicuously puberulous or velvety, 
rarely glabrous 
Capsules peduncled, contracted in a short stalk, greyish puberu- 
lous. : : : : : . . : : - C. longifolium. 
* %* Capsule densely covered with soft pubescent or hirsute 
Leaves penninerved, scabrous, but not hairy re ; : 
Leaves ample, 3- or almost 5-nerved at base and strongly veined, 
hispid-rough above, stellate-pubescent beneath  . : : 
C. longipetiolatum. 
C. leucocarpum. 
1. C, longifolium, Baill.—An evergreen shrub or small tree, 
4 to 10 ft. high and higher, with hollow stem, the young shoots 
appressed silky puberulous and roughish; leaves oblong-lanceo- 
late to lanceolate, on a rough petiole }-14-2 in. long, penni- 
nerved, acuminate or acute at the base, 24 to 6 in. long, abruptly 
acuminate, repand-toothed or crenate-serrate, rough, thick-mem- 
branous, more or less minutely puberulous beneath; flowers small, 
greyish pubescent, the males forming axillary, longer, slender, 
the pedicelled females shorter, greyish pubescent racemes in the 
axils of the leaves; capsules 3-coccous, narrowly contracted at 
the base, on a 1-2 lin. long peduncle, the size of a large pea, 
densely and minutely greyish puberulous. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the 
pices also frequent on the Andamans,—FI., Apr.-May.—s.—SS.=Si8. 
2. ©, longipetiolatum, Kz.—An evergreen meagre shrub or 
small tree 8 to 15 ft. high, with a fistulose stem, the young shoots 
appressed-pubescent ; leaves elliptical to ovate-oblong, acute, obtuse, 
or rarely almost cordate at the base, on a 3 to 5 in. long petiole, 
abruptly and shortly but finely acuminate, 4-8 in. long, thick-mem- 
branous, waved-crenate or slightly crenate-toothed, penninerved, 
rough on both sides, slightly appressed-pubescent on the nerves 
beneath ; flowers small, the males in nodding appressed greyish his- ~ 
pid racemes; capsules deeply 3-lobed, covered with soft hirsute 
prickles, crowned by the simple papillose-fimbriate styles, 3-coc- 
cous, the cocci of the size of a pea. 
Has.—Frequent in clearings an i in 
= topical forest of the Par Yoon Lae, Mataben FL hee Mage ae 
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3. C. leucoc Kz.—An evergreen, meagre, low shrub, 
Bt. ft, high, vith a. bello nici, the pouig, shocte ial 
pubescent ; leaves ample, broadly ovate, rounded or almost cordate 
at the strongly 3- or almost 5-nerved base, on a shortly pubescent 
slabrescent petiole 3 to 8 in. long, about a foot long and — 
as broad, shortly and rather bluntish acuminate, repand-toothe . 
