Aporusa. | CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 351 
slender, petiole j-1 in. Male spikes 1-14 in., rather stout; sepals 4; stamens 2. 
Ovary slender, narrowed at both ends ; styles rather slender. Fruit } in. long. 
21. A. aurea, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves long-petioled coriaceous 
elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate obtusely acuminate, base acute or obtuse golden- 
green or -yellow when dry, male spikes clustered. bracts glabrous, fem. fl. 
sessile, ovary flask-shaped glabrous, styles long 2-fid fringed, fruit globose 
glabrous, pericarp thick, cells glabrous within. A. microstachya, Kurz For. 
Fi. ii. 363 (not of Mueller). 
CHITTAGONG and Ava to TENASSERIM, ascending to 4000 ft., Kurz. PERAK, 
Herb. Hort. Calcutt. MAracoA, Grifith (Kew Distrib. 4959). 
An evergreen tree, 20-30 ft.; branches pale. Leaves 3-6 in, shining above, 
paler beneath ; nerves 5-6 pair, very slender; petiole 3-1 in., rather slender. Male 
spikes 3-13 in.; bracts membranous, glabrous; sepals rounded, glandular. Fruit 
2 in. diam., yellowish, crowned by the rather large thickly fringed stigmas, 2-valved 
at the base, 2-celled, 2-seeded. Seeds orbicular, plano-convex, grooved on the ventral 
face, as if formed of 2-connate seeds.—The fine golden hue of the dried leaves is 
characteristic of this species, which approaches 44. Wallichii, and is well likened by 
Kurz to the colour of a Symplocos. J have seen no fem. flowers, the characters of 
which are taken from Kurz’s description of his 4. microstachya, which is certainly 
this, and not that plant of Mueller; nor have I seen any Tenasserim, Avan or 
Chittagong specimens, and hence my identification of the Perak and Malaccan plant 
with that of Kurz may be erroneous, 
22. A. lanceolata, Thwaites Enum, 288; glabrous, leaves lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate caudate-acuminate base acute, male bracts glabrous 
ciliate, fem. fl. sessile, ovary glabrous, stigmas 2 very minute entire together 
forming a 2-lobed disk, fruit small ovoid obtuse or subspherical. Muell. 
Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 475 in part; Beddome Forester's Man. 199. 
Lepidostachys lanceolata, T'ulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. 253. 
CEYLON; very common. 
A smallevergreen tree, everywhere except the ciliate bracts glabrous. Leaves 
ìn., membranous, caudate tip very long, green or yellowish when dry, base acute ; 
nerves 5-6 pair, arched, cross-nervules reticulate; petiole j—3 in., slender. Male 
spikes 3-1 in.; bracts, clawed; sepals 4-5; stamens 4. Fem. spikes very short. 
Ovary ovoid. Fruit (from Thwaites’ description) the size of a pea. Seeds with a 
fleshy outer coat.—M neller describes the ovary as scabrid, the stamens as 2, and leaves 
às sometimes repand-denticulate, which makes me suspect that these characters are 
taken from a Bornean plant which he refers to this species. The plant of Helfer's 
referred here is A. Planchoniana (as is Kurz's A. lanceolata), the Malaccan (Griffith's 
4959) is 4. aurea. Ihave seen no ripe fruit of this, 
23. A. fusiformis, Thwaites Enum. 988; glabrous, leaves oblong or 
obovate-oblong or orbicular acute obtuse or retuse rarely acuminate, base 
cuneate or rounded, bracts glabrous ciliate, fem. fl. sessile, ovary glabrous, 
stigma 2-3-partite short recurved, fruit fusiform glabrous, pericarp thin, 
cells hairy within. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 471; Beddome 
Forester's Man. 199. A. Thwaitesii, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 645. 
epidostachys grandifolia, Planch. mss. 
CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 5000 ft., Walker, Thwaites. 
tree, branches stout. Leaves 4-8 in., very coriaceous, shining above, base 
sometimes cordate; nerves 5-7 pair, slender; petiole 4—3 in., usually stout, but some- 
times much lengthened. Male spikes 1-1} in., very stout. Fem. fl. crowded. Fruit 
in. long, beaked, base acute. Seed oblong, plano-convex.—Mueller has over- 
ooked Thwaites description of the ovary, and placed this species in a section in 
Which that organ is clothed. Thwaites says that it resembles 4, latifolia generally, 
differing in the form of the much less fleshy fruit. l 
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