Antidesma.] CXXXV. EvPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 357 
stout for the genus, peduncle bracteate; lower floral bracts frequently exserted and 
recurved. Sepals lanceolate, villous, very unequal. Disk of male minute, tumid, 
lobed ; pistillode clavate, hairy; of fem. cupular, slightly hairy. Style distinct.— 
Wallich’s A. attenuatum and A. molle are the two sexes of this species; his Penang 
Specimens (Porter’s) are more densely tomentose, beneath especially, than the 
others, 
VAR. lancifolia; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate.—Penang, Curtis, 
VAR. orthogyne; ovary ellipsoid quite straight, stigmas terminal.—Malacca, 
Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4928). 
6. A. Helferi, Hook. f.; branches and leaves glabrous, leaves 4-7 in. 
elliptic or elliptic-oblong obtuse base acute nerves slender, fem. spike stout 
pubescent, flowers sessile, bracts subulate, calyx 5-partite, ovary obliquely 
globose tomentose, stigmas 2 stout 2-lobed or partite terminal. 
TENASSERIM (or Andaman Islands), Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4942). . . 
Leaves coriaceous, perfectly glabrous on both surfaces; nerves 8-10 pair, arching ; 
petiole 4 in., very stout, and the linear stipules ‘glabrous. Spike terminal, li in. ; 
rachis stout. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse. Disk of fem. cupular, hairy.—I have 
seen only one specimen of: this very distinct-looking species. The leaves may hence 
be found to vary a good deal from the above diagnosis. A Perak species (Herb. Cal- 
cutt., No. 4056) in fruit only may be the same; its spike is 2-3 in., rather stout, 
quite simple, the fruit shortly pedicelled 4 in. long broadly ellipsoid turgid top 
rounded with very minute subterminal stigmas. 
7. A. Ghaesembilla, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 189, t. 39; tomentose or gla- 
brous, leaves orbicular obovate or oblong obtuse, spikes panicled, flowers 
Sessile, calyx 5-7-partite, disk 5-partite pubescent, stamens 4-7, ovary 
pubescent, fruit din. subglobose, stigmas terminal minute recurved. Muell. 
Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 251; Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 
38; Brand. For. Fl. 446; Kurz For. Fl. 358; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 186; 
alz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 236; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 349; Beddome 
Forester’s Man. 200. A. paniculatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 770; Ham. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 246; Wight le. t. 820; Dalz. 4 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 
237 ; Tulasne l.c. 228; Wall. Cat. 7280. A. pubescens, Roxb. Cor. Pl. 
n. 35, t. 167, and F7. Ind. iii. 770; Wight Ic.&. 821; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pi. 186 ; 
Dalz. & Gibs. 1. c. ; Wall. Cat. 8567; Blume Bijd. 1193; Miquel Fl. Ind. 
Bat. i. i. 496. A. acidum, Retz Obs. v. 30 (ew Herb. Rottler). A. sylvestre, 
seme. Dict. i. 207 (ew Willd. mss. in Herb. Rottler).—Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 
TRoPrcAT, HIMALAYA; from Simla to Bhotan and southward to CEYLON, SINGA- 
PORE, PERAK and PENANG.—DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China, Australia ?, Africa. 
A small tree ; branches, spikes, petioles, and often the leaves beneath rusty-tomen- 
ose. Leaves 2-3 in., rarely more or less, base rounded or cordate, tip rounded, 
pately subacute or retuse, nerves 5-6 pairs; petiole J-} in. Spikes rather slender; 
“acts minute; male fl. clustered. Fruit subglobose (when fresh). 
8. A. Roxburghii, Wall. Cat. 7283; villously tomentose, leaves 
6-10 in, subsessile obovate-oblong caudate-acuminate, spikes very long and 
Stout subsimple, bracts minute, flowers of both sexes sessile, calyx 3—4- 
Partite, stamens 3-4, fem. disk hairy, ovary straight tomentose, stigmas 
Very short terminal, fruit } in. long subsessile ovoid or ellipsoid subcom- 
Pressed, stigmas minute sublateral. Tulasne in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. 
gen 234; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 261. Stilago tomentosa, 
orb. Fl. Ind. ii, 757 ; Wight Ic. t. 767, 768. 
SiH»T, Wallich. Assam, Griffith. 
