406 EUPHORBIACER. [ Codiaeum, 
late, occasionally somewhat faleate, acuminate at the base, on 
a puberulous glabrescent petiole 2-3 lin. long, bluntish acuminate, 
chartaceous, glabrous, penninerved, yellowish in a dried state ; male 
flowers minute, on capillary 2-3 lin. long pedicels, umbelled from 
a globular pubescent-bracted head terminating the puberulous 3- 
din. long peduncle, arising solitary from the axils of the leaves or — 
from above their scars; calyx 3-parted, slightly imbricate in bud, 
the lobes ovate-lanceolate, about 4 lin. long, acute, shortly ap- 
pressed-hispid outside ; stamens about 8-12, inserted round asmooth 
yellow centre within a rather broad continuous (5-lobed?) disk; 
petals none; female flowers, etc., unknown. 
: igen bamboo jungles on Middle Andaman along Middle Straits.—Fl. 
pru. 
TRIGONOSTEMON, Bl. 
Flowers monoecious. Calyx 5-toothed or -parted, imbricate in 
bud. Petals present or suppressed. Stamens indefinite or definite, 
in 1 or more whorls on a central receptacle not elevated ; anthers 
2-rimose, Ovary-rudiment none. Ovary 3-celled, with a solitary 
ovule in each cell ; styles 8, connate at the base, once or twice dicho- 
tomously branched. Capsule 3-coccous, dry. Seeds without sper- 
maphore or arillus.—Trees or shrubs, with simple alternate leaves ; 
_ in pairs. Flowers minute, in axillary racemes, spikes or 
clusters. 
* Inflorescence appressed-tawny hirsute; leaves very shortly 
irsute ', ©. longifolium. 
. ° rm ° : vt latum, 
1. T. longifolium, Baill—An evergreen small tree or shrub, 
ingly pubescent while young, soon glabrescent above and more oF 
ess so beneath, or puberulous or pubescent along the nerves; 
flowers small, on short hirsute pedicels, forming a simple tawny 
appressed-hirsute raceme in the axils of the leaves; calyx-lobes 
about a line long, entire, appressed-hirsute ; petals obovate, glab- 
rous; ovary tawny-hirsute ; styles short, shortly 2-lobed. : 
.—Tenasserim, 
2. T. heteranthum, Wight.—A shrub, the leaf-buds and very 
young shoots pale tawny-pubescent ; leaves lanceolate to broad! = 
