192 



(2) B. MONTiuNUM. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 1125. 



Syn. Jatropha montana, Willd. — Croton polyandrum, Boxb. 

 flor. Ind. III. p. 682. — B. baliospermum axillare, Bl. lidjr. p. 604. 

 — p. polyandrum, It. WigM. — B. Indicum, Decaisne in Jacg. voy. 

 p. 154. — B. Moritziamim, Baill. Etud. gin. Hvph. p. 395. 



Ungrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1885. — Decaisne 1. c. 1. 155. — Bryn. 

 Centur. p. 118. t. 54. 



Spec. Chae. TJiidershrub or perennial: stems numerous, 

 subherbaeeous : upper leaves lanceolate, acute at the base, lower 

 ones broader, ovate and often cordate at the base, sinuabely 

 toothed or deeply 3-lobed, marked with long scattered hairs; 

 inflorescences commonly bisexual, sometimes unisexual in the 

 branches : males more lax than the females, and longer peduncled, 

 all shorter than the petioles : fructigerous pedicels deflexed : 

 sterile bracteoles numerous : segments of male calyx orbicular- 

 ovate, of female lanceolate-ovate or lanceolate : stigmas oblong- 

 obovate: urceolus of either sex 5 — 6-lobed: ovary silky-hairy: 

 capsules subglobose, tridymous, puberulous : seeds smooth, at 

 length marbled. 



Hills in Bengal. Northern parts of the Peninsula. Malabar. 



(3) B. CALTciNrM. {Muller.) 



Ident. Mull Arg. in Flora Eatisb. p. 470. — Dec. 1. c. 

 p. 1126. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : branchlets rusty -tomentose, afterwards 

 powdery : leaves lanceolate, ovate or obovate, acuminate, sub- 

 acute and bistipellate at the base, repand-serrated : inflorescences 

 very long, males abounding in flowers, at length exceeding the 

 leaves, branches ascending, branchlets subdivaricate : sterile 

 bracteoles none : hypogynous disc urceolar, extrastaminal, 1 — 5- 

 glandular : ovary pubescent : capsules globose, deeply tridymous : 

 seeds smooth, marbled. 



(4) B. MICEANTHTJM. {Muller.) 



Ident. Mull Arg. in Linnaea vol. 34. p. 215. — Dec. 1. e. p. 

 1126. 



Spec. Chab. Perennial: leaves elUptic or ovate-lanceolate, 

 sharply acuminate, subacute at the base, repand-toothed or entire, 

 membranaceous, pale : panicles slender and long-peduncled, long 

 or very long, many -flowered : fructigerous pedicels erect : stigmas 

 slender : glands of the male disc free : ovary minutely puberu- 

 lous : capsules depresso-globose, deeply furrowed, tridymous, 

 glabrate. 



Khasia. Silhet. 



