EUPHORBIAOEM. 195 



nerved ; flowers in compound terminal cymiferous racemes, [India 

 or Zeylania '). 



34. BaliospennmnBL.^ — Flower (nearly of Codicewm) monoecious 

 apetalous ; receptacle shortly convex. Sepals 5 (or more rarely 4,6), 

 imbricated. Glands same ia number or unequally connate, exterior 

 to androceum. Stamens oo, central ; filaments free or connate at 

 base, at apex dilated in basifixed connective ; anther cells lateral or 

 first extrorse, 2-rimose, adnate to connective at margin. Disk in 

 female flower shortly urceolate, unequally or subequally crenate. Gor- 

 men 3-4-locular ; cells 1-ovulate; style afterwards divided in 3, 4 

 branches, rather thick patulous recurved, 2-lobed above. Fruit 

 capsular, 3-4-cocco\is ; seeds smooth ; exostome thickly arillate. — 

 Shrubs or herbs lignesoent at base subglabrous or glabrous ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate glandular 2 -stipulate repando- dentate or subentire 

 penninerved ; flowers in axillary racemes, more or less ramified 

 cymiferous; sexes mixed or female below; fruit-bearing pedicels 

 recurved.^ {Australia and Trop. and Suh-Trop. Oceania.^) 



35. Sumbavia H. Bn.^ — Flowers (nearly of Givotia or Balio- 

 spermum), monoecious, 5-merous; male calyx valvate. Petale 6, often 

 small, imbricate. Stamens oo, inserted round convex receptacle, 

 thickened into rudimentary disk outside ; filaments free erect ; an- 

 thers subbasifixed erect; cells adnate introrsely rimose. Female 

 calyx 6-partite ; folioles valvate or slightly imbricated ; petals 6, 

 much shorter than in the male flower. Germen 3-locular; style 

 erect, afterwards 3-fld ; branches circiaate-revolute, inwardly at apex 

 stigmatiferous. " Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds arillate." — Trees ^ un- 

 armed or subspinose; indumentum subfloccose stellate; leaves al- 

 ternate petiolate penninerved, 3-plinerved at base, entire or repando- 

 dentate ; flowers in terminal racemes ; female few (1-3) inferior or ; 

 bracts 1 -floral. (East India, Ind. Arch., Java J) 



• Spec. 1. 0. rottleriformis Gkifp. he. eit. — Voy. t. 155.— Wioht, Icon. t. 1886.— Wall. 

 Wight. loon. t. 1889. — Thw. Emrni. PI. Zeijl. Cat. n. 7727 {Sicinus). — Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 682. 

 278. — Govania nivea Wall. he. cit. {Groton). — Wall. Cat. n. 7727 A. {Ricinus), 



2 Bijch: 603.— Bndl. &en. n. 6823.— H. Bn- 7827 (Oroton). 



Enphorh. 394.— M. Abg. Prodr. 1126. = Ewphorh. 390.— M. Ako. Frodv. 121.— Do- 



' A genua differing much from Sitregada by ryxlyon Zoll. in Linntea, xxix. 469 (1859). 



inflorescence and aril. ° Hal)it,etc.,of^(!Aj;n«»,irom which it scarcely 



* Spec. 4, 5. W. Spec. iv. 563 {Jatropha). — differs by petals being present. 



GstSEL. Crot. Monogr. 74 (Croio»).— Spbeng. ' Spec. 2. M. Arg, in Flora (1864), 482. 



■Syat. ii. 546 (Sedi/carya). — Decnb. in Jacjitem, 



