978 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker) [Galearia. 
Glabrous ; branchlets rather stout. Leaves 6-8 in., coriaceous, dark brown when 
dry, base rounded or broadly cuneate; nerves 10-14 pairs, very spreading, slender ; 
petiole 4—4} in. Racemes 6-8 in.; bracts 0; pedicels j3,—j in.; flowers longer than 
in the other species. Pistillode columnar, truncate, tomentose. Fruit immature, 
“ fleshy, capsular, rugose, pale green with 3 longitudinal alge extending from. e 
apex to the base, 2-3.locular," Maingay mss.—Possibly generically distinct from 
Galearia. 
** Anther-cells hispid, filaments glabrous or pubescent. 
2. G. fulva, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 205, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 
ii. 1037 (Bennettza) ; branchlets and racemes rusty-tomentose,leaves elliptie- 
lanceolate acuminate sparsely pubescent at length glabrous beneath, oars 
flowers shortly pedicelled, margins of petals ciliate, anthers hispid, filamen 
glabrous. Cremostachys fulva, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (18 ) 
262.—Bennettia, Wall. Cat. 8585 O (in part). 
PENANG, Wallich, Phillips, &c. . th 
Shoots densely rusty tomentose. Leaves 4-8 in., yellowish especially bene? le 
when dry, base acute, rarely elliptic with a rounded base, nerves 7—10 pairs; petio t 
4 in. pubescent. Racemes a foot long and less, slender; bracts minute, or the lowe 
subulate ; male fl. subglobose, 3; in. diam. ; pedicels rather longer. Petals orbicu »" 
Pistillode short, subclavate, with a rounded hispid top. Ovary densely fulvous to- 
mentose. Young fruit transversely oblong, velvety with pale tomentum. 
3. G. pedicellata, Br. in Bennett Fl. Jav. 251 (Bennettia) ; branch- 
lets and racemes puberulous, leaves elliptic or obovate-oblong or narrow y 
oblong or lanceolate acuminate glabrous or puberulous beneath, male 
pedicels much longer than the flowers, petals very broad glabrous margins 
ciliate, filaments and anthers hispid. Bennettia pedicellata, Muell. Arg. ™ 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1039.—Bennettia, Wall. Cat. 8585 (in part). 
PzNaxG, Wallich, Phillips. . 1 
A small tree, 10 ft. Leaves 6-12 in., and petioles very much as in G. fulva. 
Male racemes 12-16 in., slender; bracts minute, subulate; pedicels j5- ign 
flowers 5—4 in. diam., depressed. 
4. G. Helferi, Hook. f.; branchlets and racemes finely tomentose, 
leaves narrowly oblong or elliptic or oblanceolate acuminate glabrons 
beneath, flowers subsessile minute, petals wholly glabrous, anther-ce!s 
hispidly ciliate filaments glabrous. G. Wallichii, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 407. 
TENASSERIM, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4968), Kurs. e 
Branchiets and racemes, when dry, almost black with very fine pubescence. 
Leaves 8-12 by 23-353 in., rather membranous, narrower than in other Indian specien 
with fewer (6-8 pairs) nerves for their length; petiole longer, $ in., and m 
beneath dark and pubescent, Male racemes 12 in. ; bracts 0 or obscure; flowers 2 ais 
subglobose. Filaments very short, glabrous. Pistillode conical, glabrous. |” 
from his description is evidently Kurz’s Wallichii ; he describes the fruit as (accor 
ing to Brandis) “ the size of a prune, blue and pruinous, broader than long; the stone 
unequally wrinkled,” 
5. G. Jackiana, Br. in Bennett Fl. Jav. 251 ( Bennettia) ; branchlets 
and racemes finely pubescent, leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceo" 
acuminate glabrous or puberulous beneath, flowers subsessile very 285 A. 
margins of petals ciliate, anthers hispid,—Bennettia, Wall. Cat. 8 
Limonia leptostachya, Jack mss. 
PENANG, Jack. , 
This has the foliage of G. fulva, and the minute flowers of G. Helfert. 
