Aporosa. | CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 347 
petiole stout, 2-4 in. Male catkins 1-2 in.; Jem. very short, with smaller narrower 
tomentose bracts. Sepals of male narrowly spathulate, of fem. oblong. Stamens 2. 
Ovary obovoid-oblong, rusty-tomentose. Fruit the size of a large pea, yellow, 2-celled, 
2-seeded.—The fruit is described from Kurz; the stigmas are undescribed. 
9. A. nigricans, Hook. f.; nearly glabrous except the tips of the 
Shoots, bark pale, leaves coriaceous oblong or elliptic-oblong acuminate base 
obtuse rounded or cordate brown when dry above, beneath blackish olive- 
green with a few hairs when young on the midrib, petiole } in. stout, fruit 
globose 4 in. diam. nearly glabrous yellow black when dry, epicarp very 
thick with 2 or 4 lines of dehiscence, stigmas 2 short depressed 2-partite, 
septum hairy. 
PERAK ; at Larut, King’s Collector. 
A small tree, 20-30 ft. Leaves 6-12 in., nerves 8-10 pair, very strong beneath, 
cross-nervules strong or slender. 
6. A. globifera, Hook. f.; branches slender and petioles and midrib 
above rusty-tomentose, leaves 3—4 in. thinly coriaceous elliptic-oblong or 
-oblanceolate obtusely acuminate base acute or rounded laxly tomentose 
beneath, nerves 6-8 pair very strong meeting in large loops, petiole 
i-i in, fem. fl. sessile axillary, fruit globose pubescent, stigmas small 
depressed 4-lobed ?, cells glabrous within. 
PERAK, Scortechini, King’s Collector. 
A small tree, 20-30 ft., crown spreading. eaves green when dry, pale beneath. 
Fruit 1 in. diam., yellow and red (red brown when dry), epicarp rather thick, endo- 
carp thin. Seed orbicular, plano-convex. 
7. A. villosula, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 362; glabrous except the shoots 
and spikes, leaves long-petioled oblong to obovate-oblong or -lanceolate 
Obtuse aeute or subacuminate base obtuse or acute, fem. fl. sessile, ovary 
globose densely villous, stigmas short shortly 2-fid., fruit globose or turgidly 
ovoid hirsute or glabrate apiculate, pericarp thin, cells hairy within. 
4951) 8. to TENASSERIM and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Griffith, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 
» AC. 
An evergreen tree, 25-30 ft. ; shoots appressed-pubescent, soon glabrous. Leaves 
in., shining, membranous; nerves 5-8 pairs, slender; petiole 1-17 in., thickened 
at the tip. Fem. spikes with crowded glabrous ciliate bracts. Fruit sometimes ellip- 
toid.— Near 4. Roxburghii, but the ovary is densely clothed, and the fruit globose. 
8. A. latifolia, Thwaites Enum. 288; glabrous, leaves thickly coria- 
cous obovate or broadly elliptic obtuse base rounded or subcordate, bracts 
ciliate, fem. fl. sessile, ovary hairy stigmas reflexed 2-fid, fruit large broadly 
ovoid subacute glabrous, pericarp very thick fleshy, cells villous within, 
stigmas depressed recurved 3-partite lobes 2-fid. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
XV. 11.470; Beddome Forester’s Man. 199. Agyneia latifolia, Moon Cat. 
Ceyl. Pl. 65, 
CEYLON ; south part of the island, Thwaites. . - 
4^4 medium-sized tree; branches stout. Leaves 5-6 by 3-4 in., shining above, 
midrib Stout ; nerves 5-8 pairs, slender; petiole }-1 in., very stout, Fruit 3-1 in. 
Ong, Pericarp as thick as the cavity, at length 4-valved at the base, —I have seen no 
flowers, 
88 Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid (see also A. villosula). 
b 9. A. Eoxburghii, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 645; nearly gla- 
‘ous except the inflorescence, leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate 
