Antidesma.] ^ cxxxv. EuPHOonblACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 368 
Assam, Hamilton, &c. ; on the Duphla Hills, Booth. Kuasta MTS., Wallich, &c., 
Grifith (Kew Distrib. 4929); common at 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T. 
Branches with whitish bark; branchlets sparingly pubescent. ^ Leaves very 
variable, smaller 2-3 in. and elliptic, larger 5-7 in. and lanceolate or linear oblong, 
greenish when dry, base acute; nerves arched, slender; petiole 1-4 in. ; stipules 
narrow, lanceolate. Racemes much shorter and with shorter pedicels than in 4. 
acuminatum ; peduncle with lanceolate stipular bracts; floral bracts ovate. Male fl. 
glabrous. Disk sometimes exserted, and hardly lobed ; pistillode small. Fruit large, 
tipped by the 2-3 rigid bases of the stigmas.—The glabrous midrib of the upper sur- 
face of the leaf, short racemes and pedicels, and cupular shortly lobed calyx distin- 
guish this from 4. acuminatum, and the narrow leaves and not tomentose branches 
and terminal stigmas fiom A. assamicum, of which it has the simple female racemes 
and large oblique fruit. Can this be Mueller’s A. oblongatum ? (see p. 365,) which he 
describes from a specimen in the Berlin Herbarium as having the fruit ellipsoid obtuse 
at both ends with a stigmatiferous notch half-way between the base and apex. 
HHH Male fl. pedicelled. Calyx 3-4-partite. 
23. A. acuminatum, Wail. mss. in Wight Ic. t. 1991; branchlets 
finely pubescent, leaves 3-12 in. shortly petioled obovate-oblong or -elliptic 
or lanceolate caudate or acuminate above shining with the midrib tomen- 
tose, male racemes long and very slender in branched pubescent panicles, 
owers minute long-pedicelled, sepals 4 broadly ovate, stamens 3-4 inserted 
tween the lobes of the glabrous disk, ovary glabrous, fruit in large wide 
spreading panicles } in. long ellipsoid acuminate with a distinct terminal 
Style. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ij. 268; Beddome Forester s Man. 
201. A. refractum and A. Menasu (in part), Muell. Arg. l. c. 257. A. 
simile, Muell. Arg. l. c. 259. A. pubescens, Tul. ?, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $T. 
- Bunius, Wall. Cat. 7282 B (the right-hand specimen) A. zeylanicum 
Ham. in Wall. Cat. 8572. P A. Menasu, Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 350. A. 
macrophyllum, Wall. mss. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, ascending to 2000 ft., common, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4931), 
P AssAM, Masters. KHaslA Mrs., and SiLHET, ascending to 4000 ft., Wallich, 
A large shrub. Leaves rather thin, often very large and 4 in. broad ; base acute 
or rounded; nerves 8-15 pair, very slender; petiole 4-4 in.; stipules much longer, 
mear or lanceolate. Racemes often several inches long, with wide spreading 
branches ; bracts lanceolate; pedicels many times longer than the calyx. Disk 
Variable, usually lobed, but sometimes hemispheric; pistillode columnar or short and 
2-3 lobed, or developed into an imperfect ovary. Fruit tipped witha very short slender 
style and minute stigmas.—Habit and foliage of A. Menasu, and possibly not speci- 
cally different, but the racemes are much more slender, the branches not so tomen- 
tose, and the pedicels much Jonger. The fruit is similar but smaller, with a more 
distinct style. I have restored Wallich’s name as authority for this, a specimen in the 
Kew Herbarium from the Calcutta Garden being labelled acuminatum. Wight’s figure 
ìs taken from cultivated specimens in which the flowers appear to be occasionally 
frmaphrodite, A Sikkim fruiting specimen of this or an allied species from Clarke 
as densely tomentose branches and racemes. 
24. A. martabanicum, Pres! Epimel. 232 ; branches petioles nerves 
of leaves beneath and panicles tomentose, leaves 4-11 in. shortly petioled 
near-oblong acuminate, stipules large oblong-lanceolate, racemes panicled, 
nale - pedicelled, calyx 3-4-partite, stamens 3-4, disk glabrous, ovary 
S'abrous, fruiting racemes in open panicles, fruit j-j in. long globose or 
elipsoj n : : i inal. Muell. Arg. in DC. 
Psoid top rounded, stigmas minute sessile terminal. - g. n DC 
rodr. xv. ìi. 961; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 358. A. oblongifolium, var. Wallichii, 
asne in Ann, Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 221; Muell. Arg. l c. 264, A. 
