380 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ, (J.D. Hooker) [Galearia. 
acuminate, petiole short but slender, pedicels of male fl. shorter or longer 
than the flowers, petals and stamens glabrous. Bennettia Wallichii Muell. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1038. — Bennettia, Wall. Cat. 8585 E. 
TENASSERIM ; at Tavoy, Gomez, Helfer, Lobb.—St1NGAPORE, Hallett. 
A tree. Leaves 5-7 by 14-23 in., base usually acute (in our species 4j by 
21 with rounded base), nerves 6-7 pairs ; petiole ,—} in., much more slender than in 
the other species. Male racemes 6-12 in.; bracts O or minute, subulate ; flowers 
js—5 in. diam, Petals quite naked at the margin and tips. Pistillode short, 
tomentose, conic or with a dilated top.— Mueller describes the fruit as 4 in. broad and 
3i long and rugose, but as there are no fruits in Wallich's specimens and he does not 
allude to any others, those he described may belong to another species, Kurz’s Wal- 
lichii is G. Helferi, having tomentose branches, petioles and racemes. 
10. G. phlebocarpa, Br. in Bennett Fl. Jav. 251 (Bennettia) ; leaves 
elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate acuminate quite glabrous, male flowers very 
minute subsessile, petals narrow glabrous except the ciliate tips, filaments 
and anthers quite glabrous, fruit transversely oblong tessellately rugose. 
Bennettia phlebocarpa, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1038.—Bennettia, 
Wall. Cat. 8585 D. 
SINGAPORE, Wallich, ? TENASSERIM, Helfer. 
Branchlets glabrous, or with puberulous tips. Leaves 6-12 in., acute or obtuse; 
nerves 8-10 pairs, strong beneath; petiole 5 in., glabrous or puberulous. — Male 
racemes 6-12 in., pubescent or tomentose; bracts very minute, crowded, villous; 
flowers 434. in. diam. Petals narrower than usual in the genus, tips hispid with 
deciduous hairs. Stamens very short. Pistillode obconic, glabrous, with a truncate 
villous top. Fruit 3 in. diam., broadly wedge-shaped.—The Tenasserim specimen, à 
solitary one in flower only, has shorter broader leaves 44 by 2} in. with only 4 pairs 
of nerves, and a more tomentose rachis of the raceme and calyx; without fruit it 
cannot be identified.—I refrain from citing (after Mueller) the Sumatran G. suma- 
trana, elliptica and angustifolia, Miquel. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
BenNETTIA Finlaysoniana, Br. in Bennett Fl. Jav. 251; Muell. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 1039). Wallich’s specimens (No. 8585 B) have neither flower nor 
fruit, nor have they any locality assigned to them in Wallich’s printed Catalogue. 
In the Flora Javæ they are said to have been collected in Penang by Finlayson. lis 
described as having pubescent branchlets and glabrous petals and stamens. ueller 
suggests its being the Sumatran G. splendens. 
28. MICRODESMIS, Planch. 
Slender shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, penninerved. 
Flowers minute, in axillary clusters, dicecious; males numerous, fem. few. 
Mate FL. Sepals 5 (4—6 P), imbricate. Petals small, twisted and imbricate. 
Stamens 5, or 10 and 2-seriate, inserted on a fleshy receptacle, filaments free; 
anthers erect, cells subparallel. Pistillode columnar, ovoid or 9? h 
Fem. FL. Perianth of the male. Ovary fleshy, minutely 9-3.celled at t s 
base; styles short, 2-partite or lacerate; ovules 1 in each cell. p 
fleshy; putamen bony, rugged. Seeds broadly ovoid, testa membranous, 
albumen fleshy; cotyledons ovate, flat.—Species 2, tropical, an Asiatic a 
an African. 
M. caseariefolia, Planch. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 758; Jm 
elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate entire or obscurely toothed, stamet” 
10 in 2 series, ovary 2-celled. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1+ : 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 408.— Wall. Cat. 7987, 9077. : 
