404 ,  EUPHORBIACER. { Ostodes. 
glands alternating with the petals. Stamens more or less numer- 
ous, free, on a central convex receptacle; anthers 2-rimose. Ovary- 
rudiment none. Ovary usually 3-celled, with a solitary ovule in 
each cell; stigmas 3, sessile, simple. Capsule woody, 3- or 2-coc- 
cous. Seeds without arillus or spermaphore.—Trees, with alter- 
nate, simple, penninerved leaves. Flowers usually in axillary 
panicles. 
Leaves not distichous ; flowers panicled : eos . O. paniculata. 
Leaves distichous; flowers in axillary clusters O, Helferi. 
1. O. panic , Bl.—An evergreen tree (50—60+15—25+4 
—6), all parts glabrous; bark 4 in. thick, brown, tubercled; cut 
pale-coloured ; leaves elliptically ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse at 
the 3-nerved base, on a slender petiole 14 in. to nearly a foot long, 
acuminate, callose-repand-toothed, membranous, glabrous, some- 
what pale-coloured beneath ; flowers yellowish white, rather small, 
-on jointed 1-2 lin. long pedicels, forming more or less ample 
minutely pubescent or almost glabrous panicles arising singly or 
usually by pairs from the axils of the leaves or from above the 
sears of the fallen ones; calyx smooth; petals orbicular, pubes- 
cent at the base inside; ovary silky-pubescent ; capsules depressed- 
globular, about an inch in diameter, 3-coccous, woody, with a some- 
what fleshy epicarp, glabrous ; seeds large, glossy, obsoletely keeled 
on the back. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the damp hill forests and the tropical forests of 
Martaban east of Tounghoo, at 2,000 to 3,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. March. 
—s.—SS.=Metam. 
REMARKS.—Wood rather heavy, of an unequal fibre, but close-grained, white, 
turning yellowish, rather soft. 
2. O. Helferi, Muell. Arg.—Branchlets densely verrucose-lenti- 
cellate, glabrous or the extremities and the very young leaves 
appressed-pubescent, but soon turning glabrous; leaves obovate- 
lanceolate, on a 14-3 in. long petiole, obtuse at the base, 7-10 
in. long, shortly cuspidate-acuminate, entire, coriaceous, membran- 
ous, glabrous, the veination thin; flowers small, on short pedicels 
distichously bracted at the base, by 6-10, forming fascicles shorter 
or hardly longer than the petiole; male calyx usually 6- rarely 5- 
parted, nearly 14 lin. in diameter, the lobes ovate, acute ; petals m 
males rigid, pubescent; male receptacle rather densely crisped- 
pilose ; female flowers and fruit unknown.— (After Muell. Arg:) 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim. 
CODIAEUM, Rumph. 
Flowers monoecious. Calyx usually 5- rarely 3-parted, in both 
sexes imbricate in the bud. Disk developed, outside the stamens. 
