Ostodes. | CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 401 
8-12 in.; bracts minute; flowers } in. diam., pedicelled. Sepals unequal, concave. 
Petals unequal, very shortly clawed. Disk-glands of male large; receptacle convex, 
villous. Stamens about 20, filaments villous at the base; anthers erect, introrse. 
Capsule 1} in. long, subglobose, 3-lobed, rather rough, valves thickly crustaceous or 
woody. Seeds globose, 1 in. diam., brown and mottled, smooth.—The leaves are 
distinctly triple-nerved at the base; the other nerves are very rarely hairy at the axils ; 
the petals are not hairy at the base. 
3. O. appendiculata, Hook. f.; leaves subsessile 1-2 ft. linear- 
oblong all penninerved glabrous quite entire, racemes from the lower part of 
the stem tomentose stout; petals broad villous at the back and furnished 
towards the base within with 2 waved transverse appendages. 
PERAK; at Larut, alt. 500-1000 ft., King’s Collector. u 
A leafy tree, 40-60 ft. Leaves coriaceous, 6 in. broad, green when dry, shining 
above, base acute; nerves 12-15 pair, arched, strong beneath; petiole } in., very 
stout. Racemes white-tomentose, branches stout, 6-8 in.; male fl. in short 3-5-fld. 
branches; bracts short, pedicels equalling the calyx or shorter. Male calys of 5 
broad rounded very coriaceous imbricate hoary sepals, glabrous within. Petals longer 
than the sepals, erect with recurved tips, thick; the long white hairs on the back 
occupy a broad round area below the middle; villous in front below the appendages. 
Disk 0. Stamens 8, in the centre of the flower; filaments free, clothed with long 
silky hairs; anthers broad, introrse. Fem. fl. and fruit unknown.—This may form a 
distinct genus when the fem. fl. and fruit are known. 
4. O. Helferi, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 215, and in DC. Prodr. 
xv. ji. 1115; leaves bifarious 8-9 in. glabrous oblong or obovate-lanceolate 
cuspidately acuminate quite entire, petiole very short, flowers very small 
fascicled in the axils. Kurz For. Fl. 404. 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmcin, Helfer. . 
Branches densely lenticellate. Leaves 3-4 in. broad, thin, base rounded, egla n- 
dular, midrib rough beneath ; nerves 10-14 pair, arched, rather slender ; petiole am., 
very stout. Male fl. on short stout pedicels shorter than the petiole and with many 
bracts at the base, ` Sepals and petals 5-6 each, externally finely pubescent, bot : 
concave and very coriaceous, 5}; in. long. Stamens in a hemispheric tO d 
numerous and densely packed ; anthers short, adnate to the broad filament, -C de . 
extrorse,.— The habit of this is entirely different from any of the preceding, and 18 
likened by Mueller to a Gelonium, but the leaves are much larger. The specimens 
seen by him are probably more advanced than the Kew ones, for he describes the 
receptacle as hairy, and the bracts as distichous. 
. O. muricata, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, leaves long-petioled, 
elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acuminate entire or serrate penninerved base 
acute, male fl. long-pedicelled in short cymes, calyx obtusely 5-lobed, petals 
oblong smooth within, stamens 20-30, fem. solitary, capsule trigonously 
globose on a stout woody peduncle echinate. 
PERAK; at Larut, King’s Collector. . 
A small tree, 10-20 «t. branchlets woody, bark pale. Leaves 6-10 by Stin, 
coriaceous; nerves 10-12 pair, basal pair inconspicuous, cross-nervules very aint 5 
Petiole 13-21 in., rather slender, 2-grooved above. Male cymes axillary and on the 
old wood, about 1 in. long; pedicels 1—1 in., slender, irregularly fascicled on, the 
short rachis; bracts small, ovate; flowers white, black when dry; calyx-lobes rounded ; 
Petals oblong ; stamens short, subequal, anthers introrse. Capsule about 4 in. diam. ; 
peduncle 2-2 in, long; pericarp of valves black, echinate, thin; cocci rather thick, 
Srey. Seeds upwards of 2 i . long, ellipsoid, smooth, brown. . 
Van. ? minors haves? smaller 4-7 "n. thinner more ovate-lanceolate re much 
