412 EUPHORBIACER. [ Carumbium., 
1. C. sebiferum (Lecoecaria sebifera, Muell. Arg.; Brand. For, 
Fl., 441).—A tree (830—40+12—20+3—4), shedding leaves in 
Has.—Rarely cultivated in Burma. 
EMARKS.—This is the Chinese tallow-tree, of which the white pulp round 
the seeds is used as tallow, ete. 
2. C. insigne (Excoecaria insignis, Muell. Arg. ; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr., 214, t. 22, f.5; Brand. For. FI., 442).—A tree (40—50+20— 
25-+4—6), leafless during H.S., all parts glabrous ; leaves elliptically 
lanceolate, acute at the base, on a4-14 in. long petiole 2-glanded at 
the apex, acuminate, 3-6 in. long, chartaceous, crenate-toothed, 
glabrous, penninerved ; flowers small, sessile, the sexes on different 
robust, terminal, glabrous spikes ; bracts minute, the male ones seve- 
ral-, the female ones 1-flowered ; ovary glabrous, 2-3-celled on the 
same or on different plants ; styles 2-3, simple, thick, free to the 
base; drupes didymous or almost globular, 1-3-coccous, yellow, 
sappy, the size of a cherry-stone, smooth ; seeds enclosed in a crus- 
taceous 2-valved pyrene, the testa membranous ; albumen plenty 
and very oily. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests and along choungs of the 
se — forests of the Pegu Yomah and ‘Chittagong—Fr. March.—l.— 
- C. baccatum (Lecoecaria baceata, Muell. Arg.).—Le-lun-pen. 
—An evergreen tree (30—4.0-+12—20 + 3—5), all parts glabrous, 
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racemes, Which are simple, axillary or collected into terminal 
panicles ; bracts broadly ovate, acute, bearing a large gland at each 
side, the male ones usually 3-flowered ; male flowers usually diam- 
