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Ccelodefias.] CxxViiI. EuphoRbiace^e. 
imbricate. Ovary 3-celled; ovules 1 in a cell. Styles 2- to multi¬ 
fid, lobes toothed or lacerate, fimbriate. Capsule of 3 bivalved 
cocci stellate-pubescent. Seeds sub-globose. Species 6, Indo- 
Malayan. 
Leaves serrate, some nearly entire. 
Branchlets glabrous; leaves 6 to 9 in. long. , . 
Female sepals not glandular . . . . (1) C. Wallichianum 
Female sepals glandular . . . . (2) C. glanduligerum 
Branchlets tomentose; leaves serrate, 6 in. long . (3) C. longifolium 
Branchlets tomentose; leaves entire, 3 to 4 in. 
long.(4) C. femigmeum 
(1) C. Wallichianum Benlh. Hook. Ic. PL i. 1288; Hook. fil. 
F.B.I. v, 419. C. subcordatum Gage , Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. l.c. 239. 
Tree, wood very hard, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, broad 
oblong-lanceolate serrate or nearly entire, acuminate, base round ; 
nerves 9 pairs; 6 to 10 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. wide; petioles -2 in. 
long. Spikes tomentose short, 1 in. long. Male flowers minute 
in distant clusters, -i in. wide. Sepals ovate. Stamens 6; fila¬ 
ments oblanceolate suddenly contracted at the tip with a small 
anthers. Pistillode thick, truncate. Female calyx tomentose 
shortly lobed. Styles thick multifid, lobes papillosely fringed. 
Hab. Woods, Dindings, Pangkor (Curtis). Penang (Porter); Penara 
Bukit (Curtis). 
I fail to see any difference between C. Wallichianum and Gage’s C. sub¬ 
cordatum. The Wallichian specimens (Porter’s) have quite entire leaves, 
and those of Curtis, also from Penang, are more or less serrate, but this occurs 
also in C. glanduligerum. 
(2) C. glanduligerum Pax , Pflanzenreich, iv. 147, p. 270. 
Small tree about 15 to 20 ft. tall; young parts red-tomentose. 
Leaves coriaceous oblong cuspidate, bluntly serrate, base round; 
nerves 12 pairs slender conspicuous on both sides, elevate beneath 
with conspicuous transverse nervules; 6 to 9 in. long, 3 in. wide; 
petioles scurfy, -25 in. long, thick. Spikes orange-colour slender 
grey-tomentose, 6 in. long. Male flowers few together, very 
minute, sessile in distant clusters. Sepals 4, ovate, stellate-hairy. 
Stamens 6; filaments very short triangular much smaller than the 
anthers. Pistillode columnar conic. Female flowers pedicelled, 
5 or 6 together. Stigmas deeply and finely cut up, laciniate. 
Capsule trilobed orange-colour, -5 in. through, cocci rather woody, 
tomentose on a stout pedicel -5 in. long; axis stout strongly angled. 
Seed globose light brown smooth, *25 in. long. Hab. Lowland 
woods, Singapore, Garden Jungle; Bukit Timah; Kranji (Ridley). 
Malacca (Griffith). Native name: Santai Paya. 
This tree has often the inflorescence modified into a mass of buds and 
branches 6 in. long and orange coloured. 
(3) C. longifolium Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 420. 
Tree 20 to 30 ft. tall, stem 2 to 3 in. wide, branchlets tomentose. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate sub-serrate, base rounded; 
