278 Cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cleistantlws. 
. C. decurrens, Hook. f.: glabrous except the tomentose flowering 
branchlets and bracts, " leaves Ax Sin. rather thin elliptic-oblong-obova® 
obtuse or obtusely acuminate quite glabrous base decurrent on 4 e peti Pa 
nerves 5-7 pair very slender, flowers few sessile in axillary clus ers us 
short lateral naked or small-leaved branchlets, fem. calyx quite g hirsute 
lobes lanceolate, disk very short shortly lobed, petals elliptic, ovary 
with erect hairs. 
AK, Scortechini ; Goping, King’s Collector. ` 
A email tree, 10-12 ft. (at. Goping), branches rather slender, pale, PAN 
branchlets rusty-tomentose. Leaves variable in size and shape, sometime ed os 
broad, greenish above, reddish beneath, base always very acute and narrow ^ on the 
decurrent on the petiole which is 4—4 in.; stipules minute; sma ue ts 1-9 in. 
flowering branchlets obtuse or acute, pubescent beneath. Flowering brane e : 3 Calya 
spreading and decurved ; bracts rusty woolly almost concealing the flower . 
about 4; in. diam., fem. alone seen. Styles 3, shortly 2-fid. Fruit not seen. 
19. C. macrophyllus, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves 8-12 im thinly 
coriaceous oblong-ovate obtusely cuspidate base narrowed into. e al x 
petiole, fem. fl. sessile in axillary clusters, bracts very minute cilia e, 3 "T 
glabrous lobes ovate, petals subquadrate crenate, disk crenulate w 
erect truncate tube enclosing the strigosely hispid ovary. 
PERAK, Scortechini, iddle to 
Branches rather stout. Leaves 3-5 in. diam., narrowed from above the Tb ied 
the acuminate base, smooth and rather shining on both surfaces, midri at 
above; nerves 7-8 pair, arched, cross-nervules reticulate; petiole + In., rather "lo 
Flowers exserted, buds subglobose; calyx 4 in. diam., thickly coriaceous ; 
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broad, tubular sheath of ovary truncate, toothed, at length 5-clett. Styles 8, 2-fid, 
arms flabelliform. 
14. ©. membranaceus, Hook. f.; branches slender flowering pabet 
cent, leaves 2-4 in. very membranous glabrous elliptic or oblong or o oi; 
lanceolate obtusely acuminate or caudate glaucous beneath, nerven essile 
pairs very slender, stipules long acicular persistent, flowers un 5 ma 
minute, calyx-lobes ovate male nearly glabrous fem. hirsute, capsule s 
sessile deeply 3-lobed hirsute. 
PERAK; Larut, King’s Collector. the base, 
A tree, 15-20 ft. Leaves very pale when dry, sometimes narrowed £o d s rigid, 
which is rounded or subacute, petiole ji, in., young tomentose; stipale at the 
sometimes j in. long. Calyx > in. diam., of fem. with a villous, Lu fem. à 
base of the capsule. Petals of male obcuneate, of fein. rhomboid. Disk o 
crenulate cup at the base of the ovary. Capsule } in. long; cocci oblong. 
tt Flowers more or less pubescent (see also C. membranaceus). 
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15. C. hirsutulus, Hook. f.; branches slender hirsutely tome 
with spreading hairs, leaves 4—7 in. membranous obovate-oblong os pair, 
caudate base rounded pubescent beneath and glaucous, nerves 11- villons 
flowers in axillary clusters subsessile minute, calyx of both sexe deeply 
lobes ovate, petals of male flabellate 2-partite crenate, capsule sessile 
3-lobed pubescent. 
Perak, Scortechini, King’s Collector. tole very 
A tree, 30-40 ft. Leaves greenish when dry, nerves strong beneath, petiole b of 
short, stout, and midrib beneath tomentose ; stipules in. Calyx yz "- sule $ in. 
fem. glabrous within under the capsule. Disk of male crenulate. Cap 
long, * waxy, red." — Allied to C. membranaceus, but a much larger species. 
