282 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cleistanthus. 
diam.; lobes 4-5, very thick; pistillode glabrous, Capsule about j in. long,on 4 
stout pedicel 4-4 in. long. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN AND EXOLUDED SPECIES. 
C. OBLONGIFOLIUS, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 506, is a mixture. Of its two 
varieties, a, scaber consists of Bridelia pubescens, Kurz (the Sikkim plant), and B. 
assamica, H. f. (Griffith’s 4890). 8. genuina is Cleistanthus chartaceus, Muell. 
C. STIPULARIS, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 508 ; shoots pubescent, leaves ovate 
or ovate-oblong base obtuse or subcordate glabrous above grey-tomentose beneath, 
stipules long lanceolate acuminate, male fl. pedicelled in small axillary clusters, calyx- 
lobes ovate pubescent, peta!s clawed obovate plaited puberulous, disk low crenate, male 
f. and fruit unknown. Beddome Forester’s Mam. 203. Lebidiera stipularis, Muell 
Arg. in. Linnea xxxii. 81. Bridelia stipularis, Hook. g Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 21 
(not of Linn.).—Nilghiri Mts., Hohenacker (n. 1551).—1 know nothing of this plant 
and I do not understand how it is identified with the B. stipularis of Hook. and Arn. 
Watt. Car. 8006, from Penang, in leaf only is probably a Cleistanthus ; it has 
slender tomentose branches, and short broadly elliptic leaves 3-4 by 4-2 in., wit 
cuspidate tips. 
6. ACTEPHILA, Blume. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, usually large, quite en tire; gtipules 
deciduous. Flowers in axillary clusters, mono- or di-cecious, petaliferous oF 
not. MALE rr. Sepals 5-6, subequal or the inner larger, imbricate. Peta 
as many. much smaller, inserted under the 5-lobed disk, or 0. Stamen 
3-6, on the disk, filaments free or nearly so ; anther-cells parallel. Pis 
lode 3-cleft. Fea. rt. Perianth of the male. Ovary sessile on the 5-lobe 
disk, 3-celled; styles short, free or connate at the base, entire or 477 
ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule hard, loculicidal or of 3 9.valved pers 
Seeds usually solitary in the cocci, large, 3-gonous, aril or caruncle 0, tes : 
brittle, very thin, albumen scanty or 0; cotyledons fleshy, folded 9 
crumpled together.—Reputed species about 10, Malayan and Australian 
Mueller's sections * Monocious" and ** Diccious” are annulled by Kurz's observi; 
tion, that puberula is either ; and the distinctions drawn from the form of the sep 
and petals are not reliable. The glands at the base of the fem. sepals are proba y 
present in all the species. 
1. A. excelsa, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 78, and in DC. Prof 
xv. ii. 222; glabrous or with the shoots and young leaves beneath min? "i 
puberulous, leaves 3-8 in. long- or short-petioled linear-oblong to elip als 
lanceolate or -obovate acute acuminate or cuspidate, base acute, sepi 
oblong, petals narrow. Beddome Forester’s Man. 189, t. 23, f. 3. Hook. 
gherrensis, Wight Ic. t. 1910. Anomospermum excelsum, Dalz. 1? ton 
Kew Journ. Bot. ii. (1851) 228; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 233. CF 
lævigatum, Wall. Cat. 7749 (not 7735). 
Upper Assam; Mishmi Hills, @rigith (Kew Distrib. 4892). Sram i 
Kuasia Mts. and CHITTAGONG. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. DROCAN Pan YL0N, 
on the Western Ghats, from the Concan to Travancore, ascending to 5500 ft. CE 
ascending to 2000 ft.—-DISTRIB. Java. i 
A small evergreen shrub, 4-8 feet, or a tree. Leaves hardly coriaceous, gr in. 
yellowish when dry, nerves 6-12 pairs arched, surfaces subsimilar, petiole r i 
Flowers male and fem. in the same cluster or not ; males several, shortly ped 
