Ostodes .] 
CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACEAS. 
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35, OSTODES, Bl. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate toothed or entire. Flowers 
in lax terminal and lateral panicled racemes, rarely in axillary 
fascicles. Males fascicled or cymose. Females in separate racemes 
or solitary in the male cymes. Male flowers; sepals 5, broad 
unequal imbricate. Petals longer, 5 or 6. Disc of 5 glands or 
none. Stamens 8 to 30 on a convex or columnar receptacle; 
anthers dorsifixed. No pistillode. Female flowers; perianth as 
in male. Ovary 3-celled. Styles short bifid. Capsule sub- 
globose 6-ribbed, almost bony, at length breaking up into 3 bivalved 
cocci. Seeds ovoid. Species 10, tropical Asia. 
Racemes axillary; petioles long. 
Male cymes or racemes short, few-flowered 
axillary. ( 1 ) 0. muricata 
Male panicles long short-branched terminal ; 
flowers numerous in clusters . . . . (2) 0. macrophylla 
Panicles long dense from the trunk . , (3) 0. appendiculata 
(i) O. muricata Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 401. 
Shrub or treelet 6 to 15 ft. tall, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous 
elliptic-oblong or lanceolate acuminate entire or broadly serrate; 
nerves slender, 10 to 12 pairs; 6 to 10 in. long, 3 to 4 in. wide; 
petioles 1*5 to 2-5 in. long. Male flowers -25 in. wide, white, pink 
or crimson in small axillary cymes; pedicels slender, -5 in. long. 
Bracts small ovate. Calyx-lobes round. Petals oblong. Stamens 
short 20 to 30. Female flowers solitary. Capsule 75 in. long; 
peduncles -5 to 1 in. long; valves black echinate thick. Seeds 
*3 in. long, ellipsoid brown. Hab. Hill jungle. Dindings, Pulau 
Sembilan; Lumut, Sungei Segari. Perak, Larut (Kunstler); 
Gunong Keledang. Penang, Waterfall (Ridley). 
var. minor Hook. fil. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 4 to 7 in. long, 
175 in. wide; petioles shorter, cymes shorter. Penang (Lobb, 
Kunstler, Curtis). 
{2) O. macrophylla Benth. Gen. Plan. iii. 299; Pax, Pfianzen- 
reich, l.c. 88. Tritaxis macrophylla Mull, Arg. Flora, xlvii. 482. 
(Fig. 153, p. 270.) 
Tree 30 to 40 ft. tall, 15 to 20 in. through. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous oblong or oblong-lanceolate serrate acuminate; nerves 
20 pairs; 12 in. long, 6 in. wide; petioles 4 in. long (leaves close 
to the inflorescence much smaller, 3 to 7 in. long, -2 to -5 in. wide); 
petioles 1 in. long or less, and scurfy. Panicles 1 ft. or more long, 
slender scurfy. Flowers pedicelled scurfy in compact distant 
clusters on short branches light yellow. Male flowers irregular. 
Sepals concave round scurfy. Petals oblong glabrous. Stamens 
12 to 15, outer ones free, the rest in a column. Disc urceolate lobed 
hairy. Female flowers larger. Ovary hairy. Stigmas 3, bifid 
half-way. Hab. Open woods, Singapore, Chua Chu Kang; Bukit 
Panjang. Malacca, Ayer Panas (Griffith); Merlimau (Derry, 
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