362 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J.D. Hooker) [Antidesma. 
times only 4 in. broad. The only male Ceylon specimen of diandrum that I have seen 
is uniformly triandrous. Walker’s specimens of this in Herb. Hook. are accompanies 
with detached fruits of a much larger size than those of 4. diandrum, and which 
suspect belong to A. Aleaiteria. 
20. A. pyrifolium, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 68, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 265; nearly glabrous, leaves 2-4 in. long-petioled elliptic- 
oblong or -lanceolate caudate-acuminate shining above base acute, racema 
slender simple or branched puberulous, male fl. shortly pedicelled scatteret , 
bracts short broad, calyx cup-shaped 4—5-lobed, stamens 9-5 seated on the 
tumid glabrous disk, fruit subspherical, stigmas minute terminal. Beddome 
Forester’s Man. 200. A. montanum, Thwaites Enum. 288. 
CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3-6000 ft., Walker, &c. 
Habit of A. Alewiteria, but larger, and at once distinguishable by the longer 
rather slender petioles, 4—4 in. long, and larger fruit. The flowers are always pedicell " 
enough to place it in this group. The tumid disk of the male fl. often rises hig 
above the calyx, and the pistillode is minute and glabrous. 
21. A. Moritzii, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 67, and in De. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 252; branchlets petioles midrib above and spikes finely 
tomentose, leaves 5-10 iu. oblong elliptic- or obovate-lanceolate acuminate 
base acute or rounded, spikes very slender panicled glabrous, male " 
minute pedicelled, calyx 4—5-lobed, stamens 4-5, disk pubescent, fem. i. 
pedicelled, ovary glabrous, fruit 1-1 in. pedicelled subglobose acute, stigmas 
very short terminal. A. pubescens, Moritzi in Zoll. Verzeichn. 73; Mique 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 426, not of Roxb. A. pubescens, var. Moritzii, Tulasne al 
Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 9, xv. (1851) 215. A. minus, Blume?, Wall. Cat. 7288. 
A. leptocladum, B. genuinum, Muell. Arg. l. c, 253. A. leptocladum, Tulasne 
l. c. 199. A. Alexiteria, Presl Epimel. 234 (not of Gertn.). 
TENASSERIM; at Mergui, Grifith and Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4926). PER 
Porter, PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. Maxacoa, Griffith (Kew D istrib. 
4935).— DrsTRIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippine Islands. . n 
A tree, 12-20 ft., bark of branches grey, lenticellate. Leaves very variable, usually 
broadest above the middle, largest 8 by 4 in., smaller 5 by 2 in., membranous, pale grec 
beneath rather shining and glabrous or faintly pubescent on the 8-10 pairs of rais 
nerves; petiole 1-2 in.; stipules small, subulate or lanceolate. Male spikes 3-6 ad 
forming effuse panicles; rachis very slender; flowers nearly glabrous, scatter , 
bracts very minute; pistillode globose. Fem. racemes fewer, shorter; fruiting very 
slender; pedicels j,—i in. Fruiting panicles widely spreading.—1 am very A 
puzzled with this plant, which is, I suspect, one of the commonest Malayan Antidesmas, 
and is variously named in Herbaria. Tulasne and Mueller reter Wallich’s “ 7288 the 
(there is no A in Herb. Wallich) to 4. coriaceum, which from the description An all 
other number cited, 8584 (misprinted 8548), is 4. fallax. In habit, foliage, and Sis- 
fruit A. Moritzii resembles A. cuspidatum, from which its short petioles at once u- 
tinguish it, and A. oblongifolium, which differs in the tomentose panicle, and 14 
minatum, which has longer pedicelled male fl. and the midrib tomentose above, um 
Menasu, which has much larger flowers, a deeply lobed calyx and acute ' 
sepals. 
22. A. khasianum, Hook. .; nearly glabrous, leaves subsessile 
3-6 in. from elliptic lanceolate to narrowly oblong-lanceolate acuminate or 
caudate midrib above glabrous, male racemes short slender solitary 4 
panicled, male fl. pedicelled, calyx cupular shortly 3—4-lobed, stamens, ^. 
inserted on the tumid glabrous entire or lobed disk, ovary glabrous, sub- 
3 1. long gibbously orbicular or elliptic acute, stigmas terminal or Cat. 
terminal. A. lanceolatum, Herb. H. f. d T,~Antidesma, all. 
8570 ? B and 8573. | 
