360 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [Amtidesma. 
Tulasne in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 9, xv. (1851) 204.—Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 
8584, 9101. 
PENANG, Porter, &c. MALACOA, Maingay. PERAK, Wray, King's Collector. 
SINGAPORE, at Johore, Cantley. 
A tree?, 30-70 ft. in Perak; branches pale, tips alone rusty-pubescent. Leaves 
rarely ovate, base acute or rounded, nerves 8-10 pair; petiole 1-3 in., quite glabrous 
inage. Spikes 1-21 in., bracts minute, oblong, Sepals rounded or oblong, villous. 
Filaments rather short. Pistillode clavate. Ovary and Disk glabrous or very 
minutely puberulous; stigmas very short, thick, suberect. Fruiting racemes stout. 
—Very near A. Bunius, if not a form of it. Under A. Moritzii I have indicated 
Mueller’s erroneous citations of Wallich’s numbers cited under his A. coriacewm. 
15. A. nigricans, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 224; 
branches petioles and spikes densely tomentose, leaves shortly petioled 
4-7 in. elliptic oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate glabrous except on tke 
midrib above and beneath, spikes or racemes short simple or panicled, 
flowers sessile or shortly pedicelled, calyx 4-partite, stamens 4 inserted on 
the large hemispheric glabrous disk, ovary glabrous on a large glabrous 
disk, stigmas rather long recurved terminal. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
xvi. ii. 258. A. flexuosum, Tulasne l. c.; Muell. Arg. l.c.263. A. Bunius, 
Wall. Cat. 7282 A (the upper specimen).—Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 8575. 
ASSAM, Jenkins, S1iuEt, Wallich, J. D. H. & T. T. 
Leaves greyish brown when dry, sometimes caudate-acuminate, base acute or 
obtuse; nerves 6-12 pair, strong beneath and forming strong intra-marginal arches ; 
petiole 1-3 in., shorter than the stipules. Bracts minute. Sepals glabrous or 
sparsely villous, broadly ovate, spreading. Séamens inserted on the rounded sides of 
the disk. Pistillode conical, glabrous, but sometimes large and 2-fid like a minute 
ovary.—Tulasne’s A. nigricans and flexuosum are the same, and Wallich's No. 8575 
is quoted for both ; the large hemispheric male disk is very characteristic. My own 
Silhet specimens have longer leaves than Wallich’s; Mueller refers Willdenow $ 
A. Alexiteria to this. See No. 27, p. 365. 
16. A. cuspidatum, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 67, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 252; shoots petioles and spikes finely pubescent, leaves long- 
petioled 5-7 in. oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate glabrous shining 02 
both surfaces, petiole 1-3 in., spikes racemose, male fl. sessile, bracts as long 
as the flowers, calyx 4-5-partite, disk pubescent, stamens 3, fem. fl. sub- 
sessile, disk villous, ovary glabrous, stigmas conical erect, fruit 4 1n. obliquely 
orbicular compressed, stigmas minute sublateral. ? A. rotatum, Muell. n 
DC. l. c. 256. . 
Maracca; at Ching, Grififh (A. pubescens, Kew Distrib., No. 4823), Maingay 
(Kew Distrib., No. 1341). SINGAPORE, Cantley, King’s Collector. P TENASSERIM, 
Grifit (Kew Distrib. 4927), Helfer. baee 
A tree, branches glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, dark above when dry; jane 
rounded or acute ; nerves 8-10 pairs, prominent beneath, arched ; stipules ovate lan 
ceolate, caducous. Spikes slender, 11-3 in., with stipular bracts at their base an M 
the pedicels, bracts narrow. Sepals villous, of males rounded, of fem. ovate acuti . 
Disk of male lobed, pistillode subglobose, of fem. cupular. Fruiting racemes very 
slender, pedicels } in., slender.—The long petioles and villous fem. disk are gr 
characters for separating this species from its allies. From Mueller’s description im 
locality of A. rotatum, I think his plant must be conspecific with A. cuspida tor, 
There are in the Calcutta Herbarium from Perak (Scortechini and King’s Collec iag 
Nos, 2314 and 3464) male specimens of a species precisely resembling this in pus 
long petiole, leaves and panicled spikes, but the flowers are smaller and the 
glabrous. 
17. A. fruticulosum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 359; branchlets leaves 
