350 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aporosa. 
2-3-celled. Fruit }-} in. diam., quite globose, smooth, abruptly tipped by a very 
short style; pedicel half its diameter in length, tomentose. 
17. A. nervosa, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, leaves 4~7 in. coriaceous 
oblong obtuse or obtusely acuminate base rounded or cuneate with 6-8 pair 
of very strong nerves and strong reticulating cross-nervules, petiole ł-1 in. 
stout, male spikes 3-3 in. clustered, fruit shortly pedicelled globose puberu- 
lous, stigmas depressed each 4-partite, pericarp thick, cells glabrous within. 
Maracca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1365). 
Branches rather stout, black when dry. Leaves variable, 2—4 in. in breadth, pale 
greenish when dry and smooth above, pale brown beneath. Sepals of male 4, ovate, 
tomentose; filaments short. Fruit 3 in. diam. 
** Ovary glabrous. Fruit sessile on the spike. 
T Fruit globose. 
18. A. microsphera, Hook. f.; glabrous, leaves coriaceous lanceo- 
late caudate-acuminate shining above with the midrib raised, reticulate 
beneath with 6-8 pairs of very slender arched nerves, fem. fl. sessile, ovary 
glabrous, fruit 1-j in. diam. spherical smooth glabrous, stigmas 2 very short 
2-cleft, pericarp thick, septum hairy. 
PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. 
A shrub 10-15 ft. or tree 30—40 ft. ; branches rather slender, bark pale. Leaves 
4-6 in., greenish or yellowish when dry, grey beneath ; petiole —3 in. Fem. spikes 
often clustered, very short, -5—4 in.; rachis tomentose, bracts crowded. Fruit yellow 
(black when dry), indehiscent. Seed orbicular, compressed, plano-convex, “ with a thin 
fleshy pale-red coat ” (Kunstler). 
Tt Fruit ellipsoid or ovoid. 
19. &. Planchoniana, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb.645 (Planchiana); 
glabrous, or the shoots puberulous, leaves small shortly petioled lanceolate 
caudate-acuminate base rounded or acute, nerves very obscure, bracts and 
sepals glabrous, fem. fl. sessile, ovary fusiform glabrous, fruit small ellip- 
soid beaked by the 2-fid styles glabrous, pericarp very thin, septum hairy. 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 475. A. lanceolata, Kurz For. FI. ii. 363 
(not of Thwaites). Lepidostachys parviflora, Planch. mss. 
c TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4956). PERAK, King’s 
ollector. 
A small evergreen tree. Leaves 2-3 in., hardly coriaceous, pale yellowish green 
when dry on both surfaces; nerves 6-8 pairs, extremely slender; petiole 4—4 in. very 
slender. Male spikes 1 in. and less; sepals orbicular ; stamens 2. Fem. spike very 
short indeed. Fruit }—} in. long. 
20. A. Wallichii, Hook.f; quite glabrous, leaves oblong lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate obtusely acuminate base acute or rounded, male bracts 
and sepals tomentose, fem. fl. sessile, ovary fusiform glabrous, fruit ellipso! 
beaked by the base of the rather long plumose 2-partite stigmas, pericarp 
thick, cells very hairy within. Lepidostachys Roxburghii, Herb. Ind. Or» 
H. f. & T.—Wall. Cat. 8019. 
SILHET and the KHasrA HILLS, Wallich, &. CHITTAGONG; at Seetakoond, 
J. D. H. T. T. Movtmern, on Thyong Guyung, Lobb. 
A large tree; branches rather stout. Leaves 3-8 in., rather coriaceous, 
green and rather shining when dry, base rarely cordate; nerves 5-7 pall 
pale 
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