Antidesma.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 365 
Male spikes 3-4 in.; flowers minute, scattered.— This resembles no other Indian 
Species. 
27. A. nigricans ? (p. 360); branches densely tomentose, leaves 
4-6 in. shortly petioled oblong obovate-oblong or -lanceolate or narrowly 
linear oblong abruptly acuminate or caudate midrib above pubescent, male 
fl. pedicelled, calyx 4-partite, disk glabrous tumid, fem. racemes terminal 
and axillary subsimple short stout, rachis pubescent, calyx deeply 4-lobed, 
fruit large gibbously suborbicular turgid top rounded, stigma sublateral. 
A. nigricans, in part, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Assam, Masters, Herb. Griffith (Kew Distrib., Nos. 4930, 4937, 4943). SILHET 
and KmasrA Mrs., alt. 0-3000 ft., J. D. H. d T. T. CACHAR, at Shapore, Keenan. 
A shrub. Leaves most variable, thin, the extreme forms are 3—4 by 12-2 in., 
broadly obovate-oblong, abruptly obtusely acuminate, and 6-8 by 1-1} in., with finely 
cordate tips, narrowly linear oblong (I have gathered both in Khasia) ; nerves 8-10 
pair, very slender; petiole zo in., tomentose; stipules not seen. Fruiting racemes 
l-l} in. long. Fruit about j in. diam.— Tbis has the large oblique fruit of 4. 
khasianum, from which it differs in the tomentose branches, foliage, and midrib 
tomentose above ; it is probably the fruiting state of A. nigricans, 
28. A. comptum, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 190; 
shoots puberulous, leaves 2-3 in. lanceolate long-acuminate base narrowed 
shining above, spikes short simple or branched, flowers sessile or very 
shortly pedicelled, bracts minute ovate acute, calyx 3-toothed rusty-tomen- 
tose, disk glabrous entire, ovary glabrous above below fulvous pubescent, 
pe globose, stigmas terminal Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 263. 
Deccan PENINSULA, on the Cottalam (Courtallam ?) Mts., Leschenault. 
The above description is taken from Tulasne, who says of it that it is a shrub 6- 
12 ft, high, with small narrow fulvous pubescent stipules not longer than the petioles, 
and a very minute calyx, and that Thwaites (Enum. 289) has wrongly united it with 
4. Bunius, I have seen no Indian species with the lower part of the ovary pubescent. 
The habitat is that of a flowerless specimen of Heyne in Herb. Rottler, and which I 
Suppose is 4. Menasu. 
29. A. oblongatum, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 254; branches 
obscurely pubescent, leaves 41-7 by 1-2 in. shortly petioled linear-lanceolate 
cuspidately acuminate rigidly membranous glabrous, petiole 3 in. rather 
shining, stipules lanceolate-subulate equalling the petioles, racemes very 
slender panicled with stipular bracts at their bases, bracts linear-lanceolate, 
male fl. minute long-pedicelled, calyx 3-4-lobed below the middle lobes 
orbicular-ovate, disk thick glabrous, stamens 4-5, pistillode subcylindric 
glabrous, frnit 2 by 7 in. ellipsoid obtuse at both ends with a lateral stigma- 
tiferous notch half-way between the middle and tip. 
Knasra Mrs., J. D. H. & T. T. ; 
. Cannot find any plant answering to this description amongst Thomson's and my 
Indian collections. In most characters it agrees with 4. acuminatum, but that of the 
h ‘gma being placed in a notch of the fruit half-way between the base and apex is one I 
‘ve not met with in any species of Antidesma. See also 22. A. khasianum. 
30. A. perserrula, Kurz in Trimen’s Journ. Bot. iv. (1875), 330; 
branchlets rusty-hirsute, leaves 6-10 in. from oblong-lanceolate to obovate- 
nong acuminate or mucronate, nerves beneath hirsute, spikes simple, male 
„minute sessile, sepals 3-5 acute, stamens 3-5, ovary yellow tomentose, 
à terminal. 
NicosAE Isuanps ; forests of Kamorta, Kurz. 
