Treida\ XCVIII. EUPHOEBIACEiE 591 



-Gamliar^ Khamara^ Hind. ; Pitall, Beng. ; Pdari^ Mar. ; Pamhara-Kumhil^ 

 Mai. ; Set-Kaclon^ Upper, Yehhmyotj Lower Burma. 



A middle-sized or large tree, young shoots, inflorescence and sometimes full 

 grown 1. beneath clothed with floccnlent cottony wool. L. ovate from a 

 cordate or rounded base, acuminate, blade 4-6, pet. 1-3 in. long. Female 

 fl. on long peduncles, solitary or 2-3 together, styles yellow, |-| in. long. 

 Er. globose 1-1^ in. diam., pericarp thick, almost woody. 



Subhimalayan tract, from tlie Jumna eastwards, ascending to 3,000 ft. Assam. 

 Kliasi hills. Bengal. Behar. Singbhum. Central India. Both Peninsulas. Chiefly 

 in moist places and on river banks, reproduces abundantly from root suckers. Fl. 

 Feb.- Apr. —Ceylon. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Closely allied and perhaps 

 not specifically distinct : 2. T. polycarpa, Benth. in Gen. PL iii. 318 (T. nudiflora, Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 281, Wight t. 1871), Western Peninsula, $ in many-fid. short racemes, 

 fr. J in. diam., pericarp crustaceous, thin. 



39. CCELODISCUS, BailL ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 425. 



Shrubs or small trees with stellate hairs, 1. opposite, dentate or sinuately 

 lobed, basal n. 3-7. El. dioecious, small, in axillary bracteate spikes or 

 racemes, $ clustered in the bracts, J solitary, disk 0. $ : sepals 3, valvate, 

 stamens 20-oo surrounding a naked central receptacle, filaments free, pistil- 

 lode 0. Capsule of 3 two-valved cocci, tomentose or clothed with soft prickles 

 .and separating from a central axis. Species 5 or 6, Indo-Malayan region. 



1. C. lappaceus, Kurz. Upper Burma. Yunnan. Branchlets, petioles, underside of 

 1. and inflorescence densely clothed with soft stellate tomentum, 1. ovate, often lobed, 

 Tipperside rough with raised dots and distant stellate hairs, blade 4-6, pet. 1-2^ in. 

 long, stipules subulate. Racemes short, bracts linear. Capsules crowded | in. diam., 

 <Iensely clothed with long soft hairy bristles. 2. C. loagipes, Kurz. Eng and dry 

 forests of Pegu and Martaban. A small deciduous undershrub, the annual (1. and fi. 

 bearing) stems on a thick woody rootstock, mature 1. nearly glabrous, orbicular, 3-5 in. 

 <liam., pet J-3 in. long. 9 racemes numerous, 5-7 in. long, arising mostly from the 

 head of the rootstock, capsules muricate, pedicel 2-4 in. long. Two deciduous small 

 shrubs or undershrubs, of which 6 fi. only are known. 3. C. Mrsutulus, Kurz. Pegu. 

 Pet. 4-12 in. and 4. C. glabriusculus, Kurz. Pegu Yoma and Martaban, near streams, 

 pet. 1-3 in. long. 



40. MACARANGA, Thouars: FL Brit. Ind. v. 445. 



Trees or shrubs of rapid growth but not long lived, wood soft spongy, 1. 

 alternate, often large and peltate, underside with numerous orbicular scales. 

 PL apetalous, usually dioecious, in axillary panicles, rarely racemose, bracts 

 often large, $ fl. numerous, clustered, minute, sepals 2-4, valvate, stamens 

 1-15, central, anthers almost peltate, 3-4--celled, the connective shorter than 

 the anther-cells, pistillode 0. $ : Calyx 2-4-lobed or toothed, ovary 

 1-3-celled, styles entire, 1 ovule in each cell. Capsule mostly didymous, often 

 globose, of one coccus only. Embryo small, cotyledons flat, in fleshy albumen. 

 Species 80-90. Tropics of the Old World. 



I. $ and 9 fl. in much-branched panicles, styles short, x^eeurved. 

 A. Bracts of $ panicles not enclosing the fl. clusters, 

 (a) L. peltate. 



1. M. denticulata, MuelL Arg. ; Kurz F. EL ii 387. Vern. Burna^ Beng. ; 

 Taimg pctwun^ Lower ; Petiming^ Upper Burma. 



A middle-sized or large evergreen tree. Young shoots and 1. rusty-tomen- 

 tose with long slender thin-walled hairs, branchlets and petioles glabrescent, 

 glaucous. L. broadly ovate, acuminate, denticulate while young, blade 6-10, 

 pet, 4-8 in, long, underside pale, densely covered with minute orbicular scales, 

 often pubescent, basal n. numerous, midrib with 10-12 pair sec. n., prominent 

 beneath, stipules small, fugacious, $ fl. : clusters pubescent, approximate, 



