Givofia] 



XCVIII. EUPHORBIACE.E 



579 



Stamens 13-25 on a woolly receptacle, filaments connate at base, hairy below, 

 pistillode 0. § : Disk cupular, OTary stellately hairy, 2-3-celled, ovule 1 in 

 each cell. Fruit a subglobose drupe, |-1 in. diam. Seed 1, cotyledons fiat, 

 broad, in^a fleshy albumen. 



Fig. 182. — Givotia rottleriformis. Griff. ^. 



Dry forests on the Western Ghats and on tlie hills of the Deccan. Mysore and 

 Karnatik. Fl. H. S.— Ceylon, dry region, 



Platystigma myristiceum, Eob. Brown; Hook. Ic. PL t, 1707. Silhet. Branches 

 woody, branchlets minutely rusty-pubescent, 1. alternate, coriaceous quite entire, 

 blade 5-7, pet. |-1 in. Fl. dioecious, sessile or shortly peclicelled, in sliort axillary 

 bracteate panicles. <? : sep. 4-5, imbricate, pet. 4-5 ovate, valvate, stamens 4-5, oppo- 

 site to petals, jaiaments very sliort, anthers parallel, ? : on stout pedicels, sepals 5 

 broadly ovate, imbricate, pet. 0, ovary rusty-tomentose, 1-celled, ovule 1, stigma sessile 

 thick, broader than ovary. 



Microdesmis casearisefolia, Planchon. Tenasserim.— Malay Penins. and Arch ip. China. 

 A small evergreen tree, branchlets and young 1, minutely pubescent, 1. alternate, 

 distichous, broadly lanceolate, blade 4-5, pet. J in. Fl. dioecious, uiinute, in axillary 

 clusters, sepals 5 small, pet. 5, twisted and imbricate. S : stamens 10, alternately 

 shorter, connective apiculate, pistillode columnar. 9 : ovary glabrous, 2-celled, fr. 

 bright red, globose J-| in. diam. 



23. TRIGONOSTEMON, Blume ; M. Brit, Ind. v. 395. 



Evergreen shrubs or small trees, 1. alternate, penninerved. PL monoecious, 

 in racemes or panicles, as a rule lateral or axillary. Sepals 5, imbricate, 

 petals 5, sometimes more in $ , disk of 5 glands, often united in a lobed cup. 



