856 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Antidesma. 
Fruiting racemes as long as the leaves, strict, as thick as a crow-quill; fruits $pread- 
ing, pedicel 4; in. ; calyx small, acutely 6-lobed, nearly glabrous; disk glabrous. 
3. A. pendulum, Hook. f.; glabrous, branches stout, leaves 10-14 in. 
membranous oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate cuspidately acuminate or 
caudate base acute, nerves 10-14 pairs very slender, petiole very stout, 
spikes solitary simple very slender, fruiting pendulous equalling the leaves, 
flowers of both sexes sessile, sepals 4—6 orbicular hairy, disk glabrous 5-lobed, 
ovary gibbously decurved glabrous, stigmas very short, fruit j in. shortly 
pedicelled broadly ovoid compressed rugose tip rounded stigmas terminal. 
PERAK, Seortechini. 
A shrub, 6-12 ft.; branches as thick as a swan's quill, bark whitish. Leaves 
brown beneath when dry ; petiole}-%in. Male fl. rather scattered ; stamens 5, stout; 
pistillode clavate, lobulate at the top. Fem. fl. 44 in.; sepals very short; disk 
glabrous. Fruiting racemes as long as the leaves; pedicels slender, ṣọ in.; calyx 
obtusely 6-lobed. Fruit with acute margins, quite glabrous.—Closely allied to a 
Bornean species (Beccari No. 1300), which has a glabrous shortly lobed fem. calyx, 
and a few bristles on the fem. disk. 
4. A. Kingii, Hook. f.; branchlets petioles nerves beneath and spikes 
densely rusty-tomentose, leaves 10-12 in. subsessile oblong or broadly 
obovate-oblong cuspidately acuminate base rounded or cordate, nerves 16-20 
pair strong beneath, male spikes subpanicled, peduncle bracteate, flowers 
sessile, fem. spikes short stout erect, flowers subsessile, ovary densely tomen- 
tose, fruiting spikes very stout, fruit } in. subsessile falcately ovoid deeply 
reticulate pubescent styles terminal. 
PERAK ; at Goping and Larut, King’s Collector. : 
A stout shrub or small tree, 25 ft.; branches very stout. Leaves rather coria- 
ceous, 3-6 in. broad, more or less rusty-pubescent all over beneath ; nerves spreading, 
close-set; petiole very stout, }-} in. ; stipules 4-1 in., rigid, lanceolate. Male spikes 
erect, 4-6 in., with lanceolate stipular bracts at the base of the common peduncle ; 
floral bracts very minute; sepals 5, free, hairy ; stamens 5, rather short ; disk tumid, 
glabrous; pistillode short. Fem. spikes 4-6 ïn., erect in flower, decurved in fruit; 
bracts obscure ; sepals about 4, ovate, acute; disk with a few bristles. 
Series II. Leaves 2-10 in. long, rarely more. Fruit 4-1 in. long. 
* Ovary tomentose or pubescent (sometimes glabrate in A. alatum & 
leucocladon). 
5. A. velutinosum, Blume Bijd. 1125; densely tomentose, leaves 
5-8 in. oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, petiole very short, male f. 
sessile or very shortly pedicelled, bracts linear or lanceolate, calyx villous 
9-8-partite, stamens 5-8, ovary obliquely globose tomentose, style sublateral 
stigmas long recurved forked, fruit pedicelled obliquely globose } in. diam. 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 248; Kurz For. FÌ. ii. 359 ; Miquel FI. 
Ind. Bat.i.ii. 428, A. tomentosum, Blume ex Miquel l. c. 427, t. 26. A. 
attenuatum, Wall. Cat. 7286; Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 
235. A. molle, Wall. Cat. 7287; Muell. Arg. l. c—Antidesmea, Wall. Cat. 
8582, 8577 in part. 
Prou to TENASSERIM, and Burma, Wallich, Griffith, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 
2946, 4947), &c. PENANG, Porter, Curtis. SINGAPORE, Hullett.—D18TRIP. 
ava. 
An evergreen tree, 25-30 ft. Leaves hardly coriaceous, variable in amount f 
Tr rt base narrowed or obtuse, rarely cordate, nerves 10-15 pairs; peto 
~} in.; stipules from ovate to linear-lanceolate. Spikes or racemes subsolitary; 
