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EUPHORBIA CEJE . 
[ Claoxylon . 
depresso-globose, £ in. broad, with deep round lobes, clothed with 
whitish brown tomentum. Seeds globose, pitted, with a thin white 
arillus. Acalypha grandifolia, Poir. Encyc. vi. 204. Claoxylon crassi- 
folium, Baill. Adans. i. 279. 
Mauritius, on the hill-woods, Sieber , 184! Also Bourbon, Carmichael ! 
2. C. parviflorum, A. Juss.; Mull. Ary. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 785. 
A shrub, with glabrous branchlets. Leaves subcoriaceous, more or less 
tinged with vinose purple, oblanceolate, obtuse, broadly crenulate, 2-4 
in. long, narrowed from the middle to a slightly rounded base ; petiole 
i- i in. long. Racemes lax-flowered, subsessile, little longer than the 
petioles. Male flowers 3-5-nate. Stamens about 15. Female pedi- 
cels as long as the perianth. Bracts and perianth-segments deltoid. 
Capsule tomentose, ^ in. thick. Seeds white, slightly pitted. 
Rodriguez, Balfour ! Included in Dupont’s Mauritian catalogue, but I have 
not seen specimens. Also Bourbon. 
3. C. linostachys, Baill. ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 786. A 
shrub, 6 to 10 feet high, with terete glabrous branchlets. Leaves oblan- 
ceolate-oblong, coriaceous, scabrous on both surfaces, deltoid or obtuse 
at the tip, cuneate at the base, 4-8 in. long, obscurely crenulate ; petiole 
■£— i in. long. Flowers in lax racemes 4-6 in. long, on 2-3 inch axillary 
peduncles. Male flowers 1-3-nate ; bracts deltoid, glabrous, very 
minute. Male pedicels as long as the buds. Stamens 15-30. Cap- 
sule glabrous, under J in. broad, deeply 3-lobed. Seeds rugose, purple. 
C. scabrum, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 285. 
Mauritius, in dense woods of the Pouce range [and about Savanne and Bassin 
blanc. Endemic. 
4. C, Neraudianum, Baill.; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 788. 
A shrub, with glabrous branchlets. Leaves obovate- oblong, obtuse, 
cuneate at the base, 3 inches long by half as broad, entire, scabrous, 
subcoriaceous, tinged with purple ; petiole f-1 in. long. Female 
racemes slender, with the rachis and short pedicels puberulous. 
Flowers always solitary. Male flowers unknown. Hypogynous glands 
round, petaloid, connate at the base. Ovary pubescent ; styles plu- 
mose. 
Mauritius. Described by M. Baillon from a specimen in the Delessert herbarium 
gathered by Neraud. Endemic. 
# C. indicum , Hassk. ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 782 (C. macro- 
phyllum, Bojer , Sort. Maur , 284), a native of China and the Malay 
isles, is planted and casually subspontaneous in Mauritius, (Sieber, 324, 
etc.). It is a shrub, with pilose branchlets, long-petioled large oblong 
membranous dentate leaves acute cuneate at the base green and glabrous 
above thinly pubescent beneath, flowers of both sexes in clusters on 
long racemes, short pedicels, minute deltoid tomentose perianth-seg- 
