Antidesma.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 361 
beneath and spikes villously tomentose, leaves 1-1} in. subsessile obovate- 
oblong or -lanceolate obtuse acuminate or obtusely mucronate, spikes short 
solitary or panicled, male fl. sessile, sepals 4 rounded subacute tomentose, 
stamens 2~3 inserted at the base of the hemispheric glabrous disk, ovary 
glabrous, fruit 1-3 in. long, obliquely ovoid, stigmas terminal simple. 
Prev; in the sandy soil of tidal forests near the station, Kurz. 
, A small branched shrub, 2-4 ft. Leaves small, yellow brown when dry, some- 
times retuse; base acute ; petiole } in.; stipules subulate. Flowers minute; bracts 
minute, ovate-lanceolate. Pistillode globose, glabrous.—I have seen only young 
specimens with male flower. 
, 18. A. velutinum, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 223 
(in part) ; branches very short petioles leaves beneath and spikes tomen- 
tose, leaves 3-5 in. elliptic oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, spikes 
solitary or panicled, male fl. sessile, sepals 3-4 orbicular villous, stamens 
inserted within the glabrous lobed disk, ovary glabrous, stigmas short 
terminal. Muell. Arg. im DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 258; Kurz For. Fl. ii, 359. 
Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 8577 in part. 
Prov, Tenasserim and Burma, Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4927), Helfer 
(Kew Distrib. 6945), &c. 
An evergreen tree, 25-30 ft. Leaves more or less pubescent on both surfaces or 
glabrous above, dark brown when dry; stipules lanceolate. Disk of male sometimes 
Süpitate; pistillode columnar, hairy. Very young fruits, which are shortly pedicelled, 
only seen.—Tulasne’s A. velutinum is a mixture of this and velutinosum, which 
occur on the same sheet of Wallich’s herbarium. The character which Kurz gives of 
Ovary pubescent is, I think, an error. The number of Wallich 1701, cited by Tulasne, 
15 not that of Wallich’s Catalogue, where 1701 is a Polygonum. 
"mu Male flowers pedicelled. Calyx 3-4-lobed above the middle or 
ed. 
19. A. diandrum, Roth Nov. Sp. 369; glabrous or the shoots pubes- 
cent, leaves obovate-oblong -elliptic or -lanceolate very shortly petioled not 
Shed, racemes very slender usually branched quite glabrous, flowers all 
Pedicelled, calyx spreading obtusely 4-lobed or -toothed, stamens 2 rarely 3 
atthe base of the small glabrous lobed disk, fruit — in. long ovoid acute, 
stigmas minute terminal. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 266; Brand. 
Por. Fl. 447; Kurz For. Fl, 360; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 350 ; Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 237; Beddome Foresters Man. 200. A. sylvestre, Wall. 
Cat. 7281. A, lanceolarium, Wall. Cat. 7284; Wight Ic. t. 766; Thwaites 
num, 989. À. lanceolatum, a. Walkeri, Tulasne in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 3, 
Ww. (1851) 195; Muell. Arg. l. c. 266; Beddome Foresters Man. 201. A. 
h allichianum, Presl Epimel. 235. A. parviflorum, Herb. Ham. Stilago 
podra, Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. t. 166, and Fl. Ind. iii. 759. S. lanceolaria, 
orb. Fl. Ind. iii, 760.—Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 7285, 8579. 
an jieorican HIMALAYA, from Garwhal eastwards, and southwards to TRAVANCORE 
A LRASSERIM, CEYLON, ascending to 1500 ft. 
obtuse ush or small tree, shoots glabrous or rusty- 
, cute or acuminate, the longest 5 by lin, t ni 1 
Ys in, thin in texture, rarely slightly pubescent beneath, yellowish green when 
a Always acute, nerves faint; petiole 44-1] in.; stipules slender. Ltacemes 
P lowe quite glabrous ; bracts short, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, lowest often the longest. 
(deg, ers minute, a few here and there sessile. Disk lobed and quite gla rons 
rela as appressed pubescent by authors).—The varieties proposed by mE rith 
an hed by Mueller (ovata, genuina, lanceolata and parvifolia) are untena e wit 
Y approach to definiteness. Thwaites mentions a Cingalese form with leaves at 
pubescent. Leaves very variable, 
he largest 5 by 2 in., the smallest 
