Cleidion] XCVIII. EUPHOEBIAOEiE 593 



Java. A glabrous evergreen middle-sized tree, 1. alternate, coriaceous, usually sinuate 

 toothed, blade 4-10, pet. 1-4 in Fl. 6 in long axillary racemes, cal. globose, splitting 

 into 3-4 valvate segments, stamens od, on a conical receptacle, filaments free, anthers 

 4-celled, pistillode 0. $ one or two on a long axillary peduncle, sepals 8-5 usually 

 deciduous, styles 2 or 3 united below, each with 2 or 3 long filiform arms. Capsule 

 didymous 1-1^ in. diam , peduncle 2-4 in. long. 2 C. nitidum, Thwaites. Andamans 

 (Kurz). Ceylon. Petiole under J in. 



Ricinus communis, Linn. The Castor Oil plant. Yarn. Are?zd, Erandi, Hind, j 

 Bherenda, Beng. ; Bindl, Kol ; Haralu^ Kan. ] Amidam, Tel.; Kyetsu^ Burm. Probably 

 indigenous in Africa, cultivated and run wild in India. A soft-wooded tree, often 

 cultivated as an annual, L. peltate, palmately lobed, fl. monoecious, the 9 as a rule in 

 the upper, the $ in the lower portion of erect racemiform panicles. Capsule as a rule 

 prickly, consisting of 3 nearly cylindrical lobes, rounded at the ends. 



41. HOMONOIA, Lour.; M. Brit. Ind. v. 455. 



Eigid shrubs, 1, alternate. PL apetalous, usually dicecious, in axillary 

 spikes, disk 0. J : Calyx globose splitting into 3 valvate segments, stamens 8, 

 filaments connate, branched, anther-cells nearly distinct, connective minute. 

 Pistillode 0. $ : Sepals 5-8, imbricate, narrow, unequal, caducous. Ovary 3- 

 celled, styles entire papillose, spreading, cells 1-ovuled. Capsule locu.licidally 

 3-valved. Species 3 or 4, Indo-Malayan. 



1. H. riparia, Lour.; Bedd. Manual t. xxiv. f. 1. — Syn. Adella neriifoHa, E,oth; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1868. Yern. Sheran, Sher^ii^ Mar. ; Taniki. Tel. ; KuUur, Vangi, Mai. ; 

 Mo7naka, Yetagyi, Lower, Ye7ie, Upper Burma. Booky and stony river beds. Sikkim 

 (Banjit and Tista). Assam, Khasi hills. Upper and Lower Burma. Behar. Sing- 

 bhum. Bundelkhand. Central Provinces. "Western Peninsula. — Ceylon. Malay 

 Penins. and Archip. China. An evergreen gregarious shrub, resembling a willow, 

 branchlets, young leaves and inflorescence hairy. L. usually entire, linear-lanceolate, 

 underside with scattered hairs and minute orbicular scales, blade 4-10, pet. J-J in. 

 PI. in axillary bracteate spikes, shorter than 1. Ovary pubescent, styles red. 2. H. retusa, 

 Muell. Arg. (Adelia retusa, Wight Ic. 1869), Biver beds. Western Peninsula, from the 

 Chanda district southwards. Glabrous, 1. obovate or oblanceolate, dentate, rarely entire, 

 1-2 in., narrowed into very short petiole, underside with a few scattered shining scales, 

 spikes short, bracts subulate. 



Lasiococca sympliyUisefolia, Hook. f. in Ic. Plant, t. 1587. Damp forests of the lower 

 Darjeeling hills. A middle-sized evergreen tree, stem fluted, wood close-grained. L. 

 glabrous, alternate, quite entire, sometimes in false whorls of 3, lanceolate, narrowed 

 into a broad cordate base, blade 3-6, pet. ^-J in. PL apetalous, monoecious, 6 in 

 axillary spikes, stamens od, in a dense globose head of branched filaments, anther-cells 

 divaricate, connective arching over top and sides of the cells. 9 solitary, peduncled^ 

 in the upper leaf-axils, sepals 5-7, unequal, imbricate, persistent and enlarged in fruit, 

 styles 3 filiform, combined into a column below. Capsule densely clothed with rigid 

 multifid palese. 



Sphyxantliera capitellata, Hook. f. Ic. t. 1702. — Syn. Codmum lutescens, Kurz. Middle 

 Andaman in Bamboo forest. A large evergreen shrub, probably dioecious, branchlets 

 minutely pubescent. 6 fl. minute, crowded in small umbels on a slender axillary 

 peduncle, supported by numerous minute pubescent imbricate bracts, sepals 4 valvate, 

 pubescent without, petals much smaller than sepals. Stamens about 20, central, fila- 

 ments filiform, free, anther-cells globose, distinct, one at each end of the broad connec- 

 tive. ? fl. and fr. unknown. 



0mm XOIX. ULMACE^. Engl, in BngL u. Prantl iii. 1. 59. 



{Urticacece^ tribes I. UhnecBj II. Celtidece. Gen. PL III. 348.) 



Trees or shrubs, sap watery, L undivided, disticlious, stipulate. PL bisexual 

 or unisexual. Periantb alike in all fl., 4-9-lob6d, stamens opposite to perianth- 

 lobes, rarely twice their number, anther-cells contiguous, parallel. Ovary of 

 -2 carpels, usually 1-celled, ovule 1, pendulous. Seeds without albumen. 



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