Aporosa.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 349 
within. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 473; Beddome Forester’s Man. 
99. 
TINNEVELLY, Beddome. CEYLON ; alt. 2-3000 ft., Thwaites. 
A small sparingly-branched tree, branches very slender and all parts but the bracts 
quite glabrous, Leaves 13-5 in., membranous, pale when dry, tip obtuse or acute, 
base tapering into the slender petiole 1—} in. long, margin obscurely undulate; nerves 
6-7 pair, arched, cross-nervules loosely reticulate. Male spikes } in.'; bracts ciliate; 
sepals 3; stamens 2. Fem. spikes usually 1-fld. Ovary 3-celled, silkily hairy, and 
fruit 3 in. long, usually 3-seeded.—In Beddome’s specimens the pericarp is much thinner 
than in the Ceylon ones. 
14. A. microstachya, Muell. Arg.in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 474; branches 
slender, shoots and young petioles pubescent, leaves shortly petioled ovate 
or lanceolate obtusely caudate-acuminate base acute, fem. fl. sessile sub- 
capitate, ovary densely rusty-villous, stigmas short broad plumose, fruit very 
small globosely ovoid glabrous, pericarp very thin, cells glabrous. A. Tulas- 
neana, Baill, Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 645. Scepa microstachya, Tulasne in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 9, xv. (1851) 255. ? S. stipulacea, Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot. 
Ed. 2, 441, Lepidostachys Griffithiana, Planch. mss.— Wall. Cat. 7985. 
Burma; at Amherst, Wallich. 'l'ENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. 
ranches smooth, black when dry. Leaves 5-7 in., membranous, dull green when 
drv; margin entire or subrepand ; nerves 8-10 pairs slender, nervules very faint ; 
petiole 4-l in. Fem. spikes in small clusters. Fruit }-} in. long, smooth.— Closely 
allied to 4. Maingayi, but the leaves are much broader and longer, nerves fewer and 
fainter, and the fruit is black when dry and much smaller. Kurz’s A. microstachys is 
4. aunea, having a glabrous ovary. 
15. A. glabrifolia, Kurz in Trimen’s Journ. Bot. N. S. iv. (1873) 330 ; 
branches very robust, shoots tomentose, leaves 3-5 in. coriaceous elliptic- 
ovate obtuse or subacute base aente smooth above sparsely hairy beneath 
and with minute hairy tufts at the base on each side, nerves 7-8 pairs, 
petiole 4 in., fem. fl. sessile, fruit % in. long ellipsoid subacute finely pubes- 
cent 4-valved at the base, stigmas 2 short stout recurved, pericarp thin, 
septum hairy. 
Nicopar Istanps; Kamorta, common in dry grassy places, Kurz. . 
Kurz (possibly by misprint) gives the size of the fruit as 13 in. The only speci- 
men of this which I have seen has stout woody branches, from which it appears as if 
the habit of the plant was scraggy, with short leafing shoots. Leaves greenish and 
reticulate above, glabrous and pale brown beneath; petiole 3 in., pubescent. 
ttt Leaves glabrous or nearly so. Fem. fl. pedicelled. 
16. A. Lindleyana, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 645; glabrous, 
leaves oblong ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, base acute rounded or sub- 
cordate, stipules large hairy, bracts glabrous ciliate, fem. fl. shortly pedi- 
celled, ovary silky-pubescent, stigmas short 2-3-partite arms hardly plumose, 
fruit pedicelled globose cuspidate or very broadly ellipsoid, pericarp thin, 
Septum villous. — Mel. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 473; Thwaites Enum. 
88; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. t. 986. A. affinis, Baill. l. e. A. sphiero- 
tarpa, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlvii. (1864) 529, and in DC. l. c. Scepa 
Indleyana, Wight Ic. t.361; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 236. 
The Deccan PENINSULA; from the Conean southwards. CEYLON, abundant. 
much-branched evergreen tree. Leaves 4-6 in., thin or coriaceous, smooth 
above ; nerves 8-10 pairs; petiole }-} in., rather stout. Male spikes 1 in. or less, 
Tather stout ; sepals 4-6, ciliate 3 stamens 2-3. Ovary fusiform, distinctly pedicelled, 
