366 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J.D. Hooker) [Antidesma. 
A tree, 25 30 ft. Leaves chartaceous; petiole stout, minute, 4-4 in. Fruit 
faleately ovate, } in. long, compressed.—Description from Kurz, who likens the plant 
to A. puncticulatum, Miquel; I have seen no specimens. 
31. A. salicifolium, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 467? (not of 
Presl); branchlets slender finely pubescent, leaves 3-5 by 3-% in. shortly 
petioled linear-lanceolate acuminate quite glabrous, fruiting racemes slender 
axillary and in short terminal branches, bracts minute subulate, fruit j in. 
long ellipsoid hardly compressed rugose, style distinct short terminal, 
stigmas minute. 
PERAK; on the Pluss river, Wray.—DISTRIB. Sumatra. 
A small tree. Leaves thin, greenish when dry, base very acute, midrib pubescent 
above, nerves very slender; petiole 3 in.; stipules narrowly lanceolate. Fruiting 
spikes erect, 1-3 in.; bracts very minute, subulate; calyx very minute, lobes 5 mem- 
branous; disk thick, glabrous. Fruit shortly pedicelled.—' The Perak and Sumatran 
specimens are flowerless. This differs from the description of A. salicifolium in the 
Prodromus in the fruit being ellipsoid and straight, not subobliquely ovoid, and in the 
perfectly glabrous petioles and midribs. 
32. A. Wattii, Hook. f.; nearly glabrous, leaves subsessile 2-3 by 
i-i in. coriaceous narrowly linear-lanceolate acuminate glossy above 
margins recurved, racemes small slender axillary and in terminal panicles, 
male fl. minute pedicelled, calyx cupular unequally 4-lobed, stamens 3-4 
at the base of the small glabrous deeply lobed disk. 
Munirvr, Watt, 
Branches very stout, woody, densely leafy, bark dark ; branchlets and young parts 
pubescent. Leaves dull brown when dry, remarkably stiff, paler beneath, with very 
slender ascending distant nerves; petiole hardly any; stipules small, subulate. 
Racemes 4-1 in., numerous; bracts ovate or lanceolate, as long as the pedicels. 
Disk lobed to nearly the base; pistillode minute, glabrous.—Quite unlike any other 
species. In foliage it is almost identical with a Bornean species (Beccari No. 3831), 
which however differs in the flowers being quite sessile and their structure. 
24. SCORTECHINIA, ook. f. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire or subserrate, penninerved, 
petiole thickened at the apex. Flowers minute, dioecious, in lax axillary an 
subterminal panicles, shortly pedicelled, apetalous. MALE FL. Sepals 4-9, 
rounded, imbricate. Stamens 4-5, alternating with as many minute hairy 
disk-glands; filaments stout, free; anthers broad, cells diverging à little, 
adnate to the connective, dehiscence introrse. Pistillode short, 3-lobed, 
hairy. Fem. rr. Sepals 4, imbricate. Ovary 2-3-celled ?; stigmas 4, very 
minute ; ovules (? 1 or 2), pendulous from the top of the cells. Fruit a 
]-celled elliptic-oblong thinly erustaceous hoary-white capsule, dehiscing by 
4 free deciduous elliptie-lanceolate valves. Seed solitary, elliptic-oblong; 
compressed, pendulous, testa thin crustaceous, albumen rather scanty firm; 
cotyledons amygdaloid, oblong, rounded at both ends, compressed ; radicle 
minute, superior.— Species 3 or 4, Malayan and a Papuan. 
1. S. Kingii, Hook. f.; leaves eglandular at the base. 
Perak, King’s Collector. Matacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5030), Maingay 
(Kew Distrib. 1434).—Disrrip. Borneo (Beccari 1164). lous 
A tree 40-60 ft. high in Perak. Branchlets woody ; tips and leaf-buds puberu om: 
Leaves 4—7 in., dark chestnut-brown when dry, elliptic or cuneate-obovate, ob 
acute or cuspidately acuminate, base very acute, serratures obtuse glandular, rà 
