Ricinus.| EUPHORBIACER. 401 
at the end of the branchlets ; capsules echinate or rarely unarmed, 
ovoid-globular, varying in size from that of a cherry to nearly an 
inch long, 3- rarely 4-coccous ; seeds oblong, smooth, variegated. 
HaB.—Generally cultivated all over Burma, and often like wild in rubbish 
_— round villages, in dese toungyas, and more especially along river 
anks.— Fl. Fr. C.8.—sx 0. 
_ Remarxs.—Yields a white resin. The castor-oil is derived from the seeds, 
which make also valuable oil-cakes ; they are also used by dyers for fixing 
colours. A sort of silkworm is fed upon its leaves. 
HOMONOYA, Lour. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx of males 3-parted and valvate, of 
females 5-parted and imbricate in the bud. Petals and disk none, 
Stamens very numerous, united into many botryomorph bundles 
1. H, riparia, Lour. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 212, t. 24, f. 1; Brand. 
For. Fl., 445.—Mo-ma-kha.—An evergreen branched shrub from a 
few to 6 ft. high, the young parts greyish pubescent; leaves linear 
to linear-oblong, acute at the base, on a puberulous peti i 
long, 3-6 in. long, more or less acuminate, minutely and obsoletely 
(often glandular-) serrulate-toothed, almost coriaceous, glabrescent 
or almost glabrous above, beneath densely and shortly greyish 
puberulous and glandular-scaly, or more usually almost glabrous and 
densely glandular-scaly ; flowers of both sexes sessile, in axillary 
Sreyish pubescent spikes; calyx of males indistinctly puberous or 
glabrous, of females greyish pubescent ; capsules 3-coccous, the 
an of a pepper-kernel, greyish velvety-tomentose ; seeds small, 
rown. 
HaB.—Very frequent in and along the rocky or pebbly beds of streams and 
streamlets in al Sseceta of Burma, ee Ava and Chittagong down to Tenas- 
serim.— Fl. C.S, ; Fr. H.S.—l.—SS.—=Metam. SiS., ete. 
MANTIHOT, Plum. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx in both sexes imbricate, the female 
One deciduous. Petals ‘ibe. Disk in both sexes developed and 
urceolate. Stamens 10, free, in 2 series, inserted on the flat 
receptacle round the disk; anthers 2-rimose. Ovary-rudiment 
Present or its place empty. Ovary usually surrounded by 10 
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