408 EUPHORBIACER. [ Galearia, 
flowers minute, the males on about 4-1 lin. long puberulous pedi- 
cels, usually by 2-3 clustered and forming a slender, elongate, tawny 
or greyish puberulous raceme at the end of the branchlets; calyx 
tawny-pubescent ; petals concave, inside with a median prominent 
rib, glabrous; ovary-rudiment densely white-pubescent; drupes 
(according to Dr. Brandis) the size of a prune, blue and pruinous, 
broader than long, the stone unequally wrinkled. 
Haxs.—Tropical forests all over Tenasserim.—Fl. March.—s. 
MICRODESMIS, Planch. 
- Flowers dioecious. Calyx in both sexes 5-parted and imbricate 
in the bud. Petals in both sexes present. Disk none. Stamens 
minute, scarlet, pedicelled, in axillary clusters: 
_ CHETOCARPUS, Thv. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx of both sexes decussately 4-parted, 
column, pilose or villous; anthers 2-rimose, basifix. Ovary-rudi- — 
ment 2-3-cleft. Ovary 3-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell; 
with “pia pres a penninerved leaves. Stipules ine ia ! 
Flowers small, densely clustered on small, cushion-like, scaly-brac 
tubercles in the leaf-axile ose eincapain iE  < 
