EUPHORBIACEAB 291 



about 8, inserted in 2 rows. Ovary 3- or 4-celled. Fruit 5 to 6 cm in 

 diameter, subglobose, tardily dehiscing, usually 3-celled, 3-seeded. (Fl. 

 Filip. pi. 296.) 



Immature specimens, Cementerio del Norte, fl. in regions near Manila 

 Jan.-March; widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. 



12. CODIAEUM Jussieu 



Erect, branched, glabrous shrubs with alternate, entire or lobed, often 

 variegated leaves. Flowers monoecious, in unisexual, axillary racemes, 

 sometimes a female flower at the base of the male racemes, Male flowers 

 white, fascicled, pedicelled. Caljx^lobes 3 to 6, thin, imbricate. Petals 

 much smaller than the sepals, alternate with the disk-glands. Stamens 15 

 to 30, free. Fema le flowers solitary, the calyx 5-lobed. Petals none. 

 Ovary 3-celled, cells 1-ovuled; styles -slender, entire. Capsule globose, of 

 three 2-valved cocci. (From the Malayan name.) 



Species about 7 in Malaya, Australia, and Polynesia, 4 in the Philippines. 



* 1. C. VARIEGATUM (L.) Blume. San Francisco, Buenavista (Sp.-Fil.) ; 

 Saguilala (Tag.) ; Croton. 



An erect, branched, glabrous shrub 1 to 2 m high, the leaves exceedingly 

 variable in shape and color, linear to oblong, entire or sparingly lobed, 

 flat or variously crisped, undulate, of even spiral, sometimes interrupted, 

 8 to 25 cm long, 6 to 10 cm wide, pale-green, green to purple, some forms 

 spotted or mottled with yellow, others with the midrib and nerves red or 

 purple, etc. Racemes axillary, solitary, lax, 15 to 25 cm long, the pedicels 

 slender. Male flowers white, about 6 mm in diameter, the se£als reflexed. 

 (Fl. Filip.~pi.590.) 



Very common in cultivation but not spontaneous, fl. at intervals through- 

 out the year; in towns throughout the Philippines. Probably a native 

 of the Moluccas, now cultivated in most tropical countries. The leaves are 

 infinitely variable in form and color, in these respects by far the most 

 variable plant in the Archipelago. 



13. SUMBAVIA Baillon 



Shrubs or trees with pale, dense, stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, 

 broad, 3- or 5-nerved, entire or slightly toothed. Flowers monoecious, in 

 axillary, spike-like racemes, the males subsessile, ' clustered, the females 

 solitary, pedicelled, below the males. Male flowers: Calyx globose, thin, 

 splitting into valvate lobes. Petals 4 or 5, short. Stamens many, on a 

 convex, eglandular receptacle, filaments free. Rudimentary ovary, none. 

 Female flowers : Calyx 5- or 6-fid, the lobes narrow. Petals small or none. 

 Ovary 3-celled; styles recurved; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of two or 

 three 2-valved cocci. (From the Island of Sumbava.) 



Species 3, Burma to Malaya, 1 in the Philippines. 



1. S. rottleroides Baill. Quilap or Quirap (Tag.). 



A shrub 2 to 3 ni high, the young branches, petioles, inflorescence, and 

 lower surfaces oi the leaves densely white- or gray-stellate-pubescent. 

 Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular-ovate, 5 to 9 cm long, the upper surface 

 glabrous, base broad, rounded or truncate, 3- or 5-nerved, apex obtuse or 

 very broadly blunt-acuminate, margins slightly undulate or subentire. 

 Racemes in the upper axils, solitary, 5 to 7 cm long, the lower flowers 

 female, the upper ones male, both sexes densely stellate-tomentose. Fe- 

 male flowers with a 6-cleft calyx. Capsule depressed-globose, 3-sulcate, 



