332 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Breynia. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
B. PANICULATA, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 93; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 442, 
a plant with 5 glandular-crisped stigmas, cannot be of this genus. The only locality 
given is Mountains of India. . 
Melanthesopsis fruticosa, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 349, cannot well be Mueller's plant of 
this name, which has terete branches, and has not been found elsewhere in India. 
Kurz’s plant grows in dry hill forests of Martaban at 2500-4000 ft. elevation. 
Breynia sp. ? from Bamo in Burma, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4818), a fragment ofa 
plant resembling a B. reclinata with 6 erect conical styles ? surrounding the truncate 
top of the ovary. A somewhat similar plant from the Calcutta Bot. Garden has 3 
erect bifid styles from the truncate top of the ovary; it is a mere fragment. The 
leaves resemble those of B. coronata. 
14. SAUROPUS, Blume. 
Small shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, distichous, mem- 
branous, quite entire ; stipules minute. Flowers minute, axillary, monoecious, 
apetalous, solitary or clustered. Mae FL. Calyx disciform, urceolate or 
turbinate, 6-lobed or -cleft, mouth very small, with superficial thickenings that 
meet around the stamens. Stamens 3, filaments combined in a very short 
truncate 3-gonous column, anthers sessile on the angles of the column; 
cells linear or subglobose, parallel, extrorse. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Calyz 
6-cleft, persistent, accrescent. Ovary ovoid or globose, top rounded or con- 
cave, 3-celled; styles 3, sessile, depressed, spreading, with 3 recurved or 
incurved arms; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit globose or depressed, epicarp 
fleshy or coriaceous, 6-valved or rupturing irregularly, containing 6 inde- 
hiscent 3-gonous crüstaceous or bony cocci. Albumen fleshy; cotyledons 
broad, flat.—Species about 20, Indian and Malayan. 
Sect. I. Eusaurorus, Muell. Arg. Styles apical or subapical. Leaves 
1}-4 in. long. 
* Leaves penninerved. 
1. S.albicans, Blume Bijd. 596; quite glabrous, branchlets angular, 
leaves very shortly petioled ovate-oblong obtuse or acute penninerved, male 
calyx disciform 6-lobed, lobes broad, fruit sessile white 2 in. diam., epicarp 
fleshy bursting irregularly, cocci with a broad ventral hollow. Muell. Arg. 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 240; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 635, t. 27, f. 19,20; 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 349; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 366; Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 
ed. 2,49. S. indicus, Wight Ic. t. 1952; Miquel l. c.; Hassk. l. c. 91. 
Gardnerianus, Wight Ic. t. 1951; Thwaites Enum. 984. S. zeylanicus, 
Wight Ic. t. 1952. Agyneia ovata, Miquel l. c. 367. Phyllanthus strictus, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 670; Wall. Cat. 7933. Cluytia androgyna, Linn. Manuss. 
128. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; hot valleys, J. D. H. SILHET and the KHASIA HIt1s and 
Burma, Wallich, &c., to TENASSERIM, Matacca and PENANG, TRAVANCORE, 
Wight. C&vLoN; Central Province, ascending to 4000 ft.—DrsTRIB. Java, 
Philippines. t 
An erect undershrub, with often a slender simple stem umbellately branched s 
the top; stem and branches terete, green. Leaves 14-3 in., glaucous benea th; 
petiole 35 in., slender; stipules persistent. Flowers small, males 3-3 ìn- dam 
greenish red; pedicels capillary. Calyx-lobes of fem. broad, obtuse, emargina™ 
or 2-lobed, rather enlarged in fruit. Fruit with a fleshy epicarp ; cocci ] in. Pro 
Odour of the whole dried plant like celery. Mueller describes the fruit as stipitas 
but it is quite sessile; possibly he took S. stipitatus for the same species. ie 
hardly recognize Mueller's two varieties (Linnea xxii. 72, and DC. l. c.), Gardneriana 
