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80. EUPHORBIACE^. 



[Homonoia* 



28. HOMONOIA, Lour. 



Rigid shrubs. L^^aves alternate; stipules deciduous. Flowers 

 dioecious, in spikes or racemes or the females solitary. Male 11. Calyx 

 globose, 3-partite and valvate. Petals and disk 0. Stamens numerous 

 in a dense globose head of branched filaments ; connective obscure. 

 Fern. fl. Sepals 5-8, narrow, unequal, imbricate. Ovary 3-4 -celled, 

 cells 1-ovuled ; styles 3-4, connate at the base, simple. Fruit, a 3-4- 

 celled capsule ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat. 



Leaves lanceolate. Spikes long, slender ... 1. S. riparia. 



Leaves obovate. Spikes short, stout ... ... 2. H.. retusa, 



1. H. riparia, Lour. Fl. Coch. 637 ; Fl. Br. L 5. 455; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 401 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 212. Adelia neriifoUa, Roth., Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 231 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 185. 



Rocky river banks. Sikkim Himalaya to Assam, southwards to 

 Burma, Deccan peninsula from the Konkan southwards. In the beds 

 of rivers and streams throughout the presidency, very common ia 

 Konkan and North Kanara rivers. Fl. Nov. -March. A shrub. Wood 

 grey or greyish brown, moderately hard, close-grained. (Gamble.) 



2. H. retusa, Muell. Arg. in Linnsea XXXIV. 20O ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 456 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 445. Adelia retusa^ Wight. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FK 

 231 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 212. 



Deccan peninsula from the Konkan to the Nilghiris. Throughout the 

 presidency in river beds, often associated with H. riparia^ common in 

 North Kanara rivers. Fl. Nov.-April. A small glabrous shrub with 

 tough woody branches. 



29. RICINUS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, peltate, palmately 7-many-lobed, 

 serrate. Flowers monoecious, apetalous, in terminal subpanicled 

 racemes. Calyx 5-divided, valvate in bud. Petals and disk wanting. 

 Stamens numerous ; filaments variously connate on a plano-convex 

 torus. Ovary 3-celled. Capsule dry, 3-coccous. Albumen oily. 



E. oommunis, Linn. Sp. PL 1007 ; Fl. Br. L 5. 457 ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 445 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 78. Erandi, Vern. ; Tirki, Guz. ; 

 Earalic^ K. Castor Oil Plant. 



Cultivated and naturalized near villages, throughout the presidency, 

 probably indigenous in Africa.. Fl. Fr. Feb.-March. 



30. SAPIUM, P. Br. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate^ entire or toothed ; petiole often 

 2-glau,dular at top. Flowers in terminal, simple or panicled spikes, 

 monoecious, apetalous ; males several in each bract ; females in the 

 lower part of the spike. Petals and disk 0. Male fl. Calyx 2-»S- 

 lobed, toothed or split to the base into 2-3^ valvate sepals. Stamens 

 2-3 ; anther-cells distinct. Fern. fl. Calyx 3-fid or partite. Ovary 



