4.00 EUPHORBIACER. [Dalechampia. 
parted, imbricate in bud. Petals none. Disk none, or rarely 
rudimentary in the females. Stamens numerous, or rarely few, 
situated on an elevated central receptacle, the filaments united in 
the summit. Capsule 3-4-coccous, dry. Seeds without sperma- 
phore. Cotyledons ovate, complanate-—Shrubs, usually scandent or 
twining, with alternate penni- or palmati-nerved, simple-lobed or 
igitate leaves. Stipules paired. Flowers clustered within the 
leafy involucre, terminating a longer or shorter axillary peduncle. © 
_ 1. D, scandens, L.—An evergreen large twining shrub, the 
younger parts more or less pubescent; leaves deeply 3-lobed, 5- 
nerved at the cordate base, on a pubescent petiole 1-2 in. long, 
chartaceous, 2-4 in. long, the lobes more or less lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, usually obsoletely serrate ; flowers sessile, bracted, in a large 
leafy involucre at the end of a 2-3 in. long, puberulous, spuriously 
axillary peduncle ; involucre-leaflets cordate-ovate, 3-lobed almost 
to the middle, serrulate ; bracts of female flowers entire ; calyx-lobes 
of females pinnatifid-cut, hirsute; ovary shortly tomentose; capsules 
the size of a pea, 3-coccous, smooth, crustaceous-woody. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests of 
the southern parts of the Pegu Yomah; entering also the toungyas.—Fr. Jan. 
—s : 1—SS.=SiS. . 
RICINUS, L. 
Flowers monoecious. Calyx 5-parted, both sexes valvate in bud. 
Petals and disk wanting. Stamens very numerous, united into many 
botryomorph bundles arranged on a plano-convex receptacle; anthers 
2-celled, globular-didymous, dorsifix. Ovary-rudiment none. Ovary 
3-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell ; styles 3, connate below, 
2-parted, papillose. Capsule dry, 3-coccous. Seeds with a sperma- 
phore. Albumen copious, oily. Cotyledons large, the radicle 
short.—Trees or shrubs, with alternate, palmati-lobed, peltate leaves. 
Flowers rather small, in racemes or contracted panicles bearing the 
females at the lower part. Bracts membranous, subulate, s 
1. R. communis, L.; Brand. For. Fl.,445.—Kyek-su-pen.—AD 
evergreen shrub or treelet (15—20 + 8—12 + 1—14), flowermg 
already in the first year of growth while still herbaceous, all parts 
glabrous, the softer branchlets pruinous ; leaves peltate and palmati- 
lobed, on a } to a foot long petiole, membranous, about } to 2 ft. mM 
diameter, glabrous, the lobes oblong-lanceolate or narrower, acute r 
acuminate, usually doubled-gland-serrate ; flowers pedicelled, rather 
large, forming a simple or more usually panicled pruinous raceme : 
