Cleistanthus.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 215 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xy. ii. 509; Brand. For. Fl. 450; Gamble Man. 
Ind. Timb. 358 ; Beddome Forester’s Man. 203, t. 23, fig. 5. Cluytia collina, 
Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 37, t. 169, and Fl. Ind. iii. 732; Wall. Cat. 7890. C. 
retusa & patula, Herb. Wight. Andrachne orbiculata, Roth Nov. Sp. 364. 
A. Cadishan, Roxb. mss. Emblica Palasis, Herb. Ham. 
Dry hills in various parts of INDIA from Sra to BEHAR, and southward to 
Central India, and the DECCAN PENINSULA. CEYLON; at Colonna Corle, rare, 
Thwaites. 
A small tree with very hard wood and spreading rigid twiggy smooth or pustulate 
branches. Leaves 134-4 by 1}-3 in., pale when dry, loosely reticulate, young mem- 
branous and faintly pubescent beneath, old hard, base rounded or cordate; petiole 
$ in., slender. Clusters 3-6-fld.; bracts minute, villous. Calyx } in. diam. Petals 
fleshy, always narrow, incurved. Disk of male pulvinate, of fem. conical with a 
thick margin, Ovary globose; styles thick, quite free; stigmas fleshy, lobed. Cap- 
sule $ in. diam., sessile, woody, rounded-3-gonous, top not lobed, dark brown shining 
and wrinkled when dry. Seeds i in. diam., globose, chestnut-brown; albumen 
scanty.—The genus Lebidieropsis should probably be restored ; the globose seeds 
differ wholly from those of any other Cleistanthus. The fruit in Roxburgh’s figure 
18 much too oblong. 
2. ©. chartaceus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 507 ; shoots and 
flowering branches rusty-tomentose, leaves 5-8 in. coriaceous elliptic- 
lanceolate obtusely acuminate subsilvery beneath base acute, nerves 8-10 
pair slender, flowers few in small axillary and short spicate clusters sessile 
glabrous, calyx-lobes ovate acute, petals cuneate lobed, ovary glabrous, 
capsule stipitate. : C. oblongifolius, Brand. For. Fl. 451; Muell. Arg. l. c. 
(in part), Amanoa chartacea, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 582. Bridelia 
chartacea, Wall. Cat. 7881. B. oblongifolia, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 
Cluytia oblongifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 730 ; Wall. Cat. 7887. 
SILHET, Roxburgh, Griffith, &c. ? Andaman Islands, Kurz.—DISTRIB. ? Java. 
A small spreading tree, branches pale, glabrous except the shoots. Leaves 13-3 in. 
road, reticulated above by the cross-nervules, beneath appressedly hairy, at length 
glabrous, base narrowed into a short stout petiole 1-3 in. long. Clusters 3-6 fid., 
often in short decurved stout rusty-tomentose spikes; bracts short, obtuse, rusty 
Villous, Calyx 4, in. diam. Capsule 4 in. long and broad, stipitate, woody, 
laterally 3-lobed, lobes somewhat compressed; stipes d in. long, clothed with the 
isk, expanding under the cocci into the woody acutely 5-angled base of the colume a 
è in. diam, Seeds oblong, 3-gonous, faces undulate.—The Javan and the Andaman 
sland specimens resemble the Indian in foliage, but want flower and fruit. 
3. C. stenophyllus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 370; quite glabrous, leaves 
chartaceous 3-4 n. Iiear-lanceolate long and thinly acuminate paler beneath, 
ase acute, petiole 4 in., lowers minute few sessile in small axillary clusters, 
bracts ciliate, calyx slightly appressed hairy, ovary sessile glabrous. 
TENASSERIM or ANDAMAN ISLANDS (Kurz). . . 
know of this only by the above deleription taken from Kurz. It is probably, a 
Plant of Helfer’s, whose Andaman and Tenasserim collections were not separated ; 
but for the hirsute ovary I should have referred my C. lanceolatus to this. 
4. C. myrianthus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 370; branches stout and leaves 
beneath finely falvoue tomentose leaves 6-9 in. coriaceous narrowly linear- 
anceolate acuminate base acute, nerves 16-20 pairs arched, flowers many m 
dense axillary clusters glabrous sessile, calyx-lobes ovate acuto, Pora 8 
broadly flabellate crenate, ovary glabrous, capsule stipitate. Gamble Man. 
Ind. Timb. 357, 
Matay PENINSULA; from Pegu to Tenasserim and the Andamans, frequent 
Kurz.—Disrzip. Java, Borneo, Philippines. 
