Microdesmis.] oxxxv. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 381 
TENAssERIM, Helfer, &c. PERAK, King's Collector. PENANG, Wallich, &c. 
Mataooa, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1424, 1454).—DISTRIB. Borneo, South 
ina, r 
A small evergreen tree; branchlets and youngest leaves puberulous. eaves 
2-6 in., often subfalcate, glabrous, glossy, base very acute, minutely pellucid-punc- 
tate ; petiole 2 in. Flowers very shortly pedicelled, puberulous. Sepals elliptic- 
ovate. Petals orbicular, concave. Stamens alternately shorter, counective apicu- 
late. Styles reflexed. Fruit l-4 in. diam., globose, 2-celled, bright red.—Wallich’s 
No. 7987 is stated to be from Silhet, but this is no doubt an error. 
29. PLATYSTIGMA, Brown. 
A tree P? with rust -pubescent shoots and inflorescence. Leaves alternate, 
coriaceous, quite entire, penninerved ; stipules? Flowers in short axillary 
panicles, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, dicecious. Disk 0. Mark FL. 
racteate and 2-bracteolate. Sepals 4-5, unequal, imbricate. Petals 4-5, 
ovate, acute, valvate. Stamens 4-5, filaments very short; anthers large, 
cells oblong parallel, slits subextrorse. Pistillode 0. Fem. ru. 1-bracteate. 
Sepals 5, broadly ovate, imbricate, 2 interior. Ovary cylindric, pubescent, 
l-celled ; stigma very broad, sessile, disciform, quite entire; ovule 1, pen- 
dulous from the top of the cell, linear, without an obturator. 
P. myristiceum, Brown in Wall. Cat. 7523 (fem. plant); Hook. Ic. 
PI. t. 1707.—Myristicea, Wall. Cat. 9017 (male plant). 
Stuer, W, Gomez. . M 
Branches woody, terete, black when dry, hoary. Leaves 9-7 by 2-3} in., elliptic 
or elliptic oblong, acute or acuminate, base acute or obtuse, glabrous above, beneath 
rary pale brown; nerves 10-12 pairs, slender, nervules obscure; petiole }-1 in. 
Male panicles 1-3 in., sessile, rachis and branches stout; buds globose; flowers t in. 
am., crowded on the tomentose branches; sepals hispidly pubescent, much shorter 
an the corolla; petals glabrous or with a few very minute stellate hairs ; anthers 
.PPosite the petals and nearly as large. Fem. panicles much shorter and fewer-fid. 
than the male; flowers on very stout pedicels, which are 1-bracteate at the base ; 
pals 4 in. long ; ovary rusty-tomentose with very thick walls and a narrow central 
cell; stigma broader than the body of the ovary, black when dry; ovule linear.—I 
$m not certain that this is an Euphorbiaceous plant. Bentham, who has noted that it 
as 2 ovules but one sometimes abortive (I find but one in the many specimens 
examined), has suggested (Gen. Plant. iii. 283) that it may be a Baccaurea, from 
Which the 1-celled ovary, linear ovule, stigma, and absence of a thickening or joint at 
© apex of the petiole at once distinguish it. I find no trace of stipules. 
30. ELATERIOSPERMUM, Blume. 
A handsome glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, jointed on to the 2-glan- 
dular long petiole, quite entire, penninerved, reticulate. Flowers mn di- 
trichotomous panicled cymes, moncecious, apetalous, central of each cyme a 
Sessile female, Marg FL, Sepals 4-6, broad, imbricate. Stamens 10-20 or 
more, on a villous receptacle, filaments very short, free; anthers linear 
Oblong, erect, cells adnate, parallel, connective gland-tipped. Pis ul ode 
minute or 0, Ferm. FL. Sepals 6, imbricate, caducous. Disk elevated, 
pubescent, Staminodes many, within the disk. Ovary ovoid, tapering into 
1 Short thick style, 2-4-celled ; stigmas 3, dilated, crescent-shaped ; ov ules 
5» each cell, obturator large. Capsule large, of 2 2-valved cocci with a 
in fleshy exocarp, and bony endocarp. Seeds large, oblong, testa crus- 
taceous shining, a basen Pt in iL cotyledons plano-convex, fleshy, 
Tadicle very short. 
