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stems 1-2 feet long, the branchlets acutely quadrangular. Leaves 
oblong, sessile, coriaceous-succulent, £• in. long, rounded at both ends; 
stipules minute, spreading, lanceolate, persistent. Flowers placed in 
the axils of the upper leaves, males and females in different axils ; 
pedicels as long as the perianth, subtended by minute lanceolate 
acuminate bracts. Perianth jV - " 3 V * n - l° n g> persistent. Capsule glabrous, 
the size of a pea. A., impubes, Vent. Sort. Cels , t. 23 ; Bojer , Sort. 
Maur. 280, not Linn. 
Mauritius, on the seashore near Port Louis, Bojer, Dr Ayres ! Also Tropical 
Asia, Bourbon, and Madagascar, not continental Africa. 
# JExccecaria sebiferci , Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 1210 (Croton 
sebiferus, Linn. ; Stillingfleetia sebifera, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 282), a 
native of China and . Japan, now widely cultivated, is occasionally 
subspontaneous in Mauritius. It is a tree, glabrous in all its parts, 
with middle-sized entire round-cuspidate leaves witb a pair of glands 
at the top of the long petiole, monochlamydeous monoicous flowers in 
dense cylindrical spike-like racemes consisting of one or two females 
at tbe base and the very numerous males in fascicles, a minute plate- 
shaped perianth with usually 3 deltoid lobes, male flower with 2 
stamens, disk absent^ capsule globose cuspidate smooth black 3- 
valved with three roundish hard seeds with a white waxy coat. 
Arbre d, suif. 
7. STILLINGIA, Garden. 
Flowers monoicous. Disk 0. Perianth in each sex with 2-3 obtuse 
broad imbricated lobes. Stamens as many as the perianth-lobes ; anthers 
2-celled. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; styles simple, 
subulate, united below. Fruit a 3-coccous capsule. Seeds carunculate. 
— Milky glabrous shrubs, witb stipulate alternate leaves and flowers in 
spikes with the females below the males. Distrib. Warmer regions 
of both hemispheres. Species 10-12. 
1. S. lineata, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 1157. A milky 
shrub, 5-6 feet high, glabrous in all its parts, with stout terete branch- 
lets. Leaves glossy, coriaceous, oblanceolate, bright green, 3-5 inches 
long, f-1 in. broad two-thirds of the way up, narrowed to a subobtuse 
point and very gradually to the base, entire, the distinct contiguous 
parallel erecto-patent veins anastomosing in arches a space within the 
border ; petiole flattened, in. long. Flowers in lax short-peduncled 
terminal spikes 2-3 in. long, 1-5 solitary females at the bottom, 
the rest males, 5-6 flowers together in little pockets formed by the 
amplexicaul truncate bract, which has a couple of large adnate oblong 
glands at its base. Male perianth short-stalked, Jg- in. long, with 2 
roundedlobes. Anthers minute, globose, just exserted. Capsule glabrous, 
A in. broad and long, with three obtuse lobes. Sapium lineatum and 
lsevigatum, Lam. ; Bojer , Hort. Maur. 283-4. 
