Dimorphocalyx.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 405 
long; pedicels as long, thickened and angular above. Fruiting sepals l-nerved, 
larger oblong-lanceolate. Capsule i in. diam., hoary, cocci globose smooth thinly 
crustaceous. Seeds subglobose, polished, mottled. 
9. D. Kunstleri, King mss.; leaves 2-3 in. elliptic-oblong obtuse 
quite entire whitish beneath base acute, male cymes subterminal short, 
stamens about 13. 
Pgnana, King’s Collector. 
A shrub, 10-15 ft., quite glabrous, much branched, branches slender. Leaves 
1-1 in. broad, thin, brown above when dry, nerves many very slender; petiole 4 in.; 
stipules triangular-ovate. Cymes of male fl. 1 in., 6-8-fld., quite glabrous, leafy 
towards the base; bracts minute; pedicels 4,—1 in. Flowers campanulate, white, 
3 in. broad ; calyx cupular, broadly 5-toothed; petals oblong ; glands large; stamens 
5 at the base of the column, and 8 at the top. 
4l. ERISMANTHUS, Wall. 
Subscandent shrubs. Leaves subsessile, opposite, bifarious, oblong, base 
on one side cordate, penninerved ; stipules rigid. Flowers axillary, monce- 
cious, males on long capillary pedicels arising from the bracts of a short 
subsessile axillary cone, petaliferous, females solitary in separate axils long 
pedicelled, apetalous. Disk 0. Matz rr. Sepals 4-5, oblong, reflexed, 
imbricate P Petals half the size, narrower. Stamens about 12, inserted on 
à conical hairy receptacle, that terminates in a very long capillary pistil- 
lode ; filaments very short; anthers large, broadly didymous, compressed ; 
cells dehiscing along the top and margins. Ferm. FL. Sepals 5, elliptic- 
oblong, large, unequal, foliaceous, enlarging in fruit. Ovary 3-lobed, 
3-celled, hispid; styles very long, united below, 2-partite, arms filiform 
hispid; ovule 1 in each cell. Capsule of 3 crustaceous subglobose hispid 
cocci. Seeds globose.—Species 2, the following and a Chinese one. 
E. obliqua, Wall. Cat. 8011; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
1138; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 669. 
an "oi Wallich, Prerak, King's Collector.— DtsTRIB. Borneo (Beccari No. 769 
A sparsely hairy shrub; branches slender, terete, woody. Leaves 5-7 in., thinly 
coriaceous, green when dry, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 10-12-nerved, obscurely 
crenate, lower base rounded, upper very narrow; petiole y in., often bright red ; 
stipules $} in., lanceolate, green, persistent. Cones of bracts of male fl. i-i in., 
usually reflexed, and concealed under the leaf-bases; bracts subulate, most densely 
imbricate, hispid; male fl. 1 in. diam., very numerous, forming a tangled mass ot 
ary capillary pedicels iin. long; sepals and petals membranous ; pistillode } in., 
as slender as the pedicels, sparsely hairy, terminated by two narrow lamellie. £F em. 
Pedicel 2-6 in., stiff, strigose, with a few minute bracts; perianth 3-1 in. diam. ; 
repals rigid, 1-nerved, mucronate, obscurely serrate. Ovary minute, styles 4 in. 
„0ng; ovule with a 2-fid obturator. Capsule about } in. diam., epicarp not separat- 
ing. Seed mottled.—I am indebted to Dr. King for notes and materials enabling 
me to complete the description of this curious genus, of which a Chinese species 1s 
red in the * Icones Plantarum ” (t. 1578). 
42. AGROSTISTACHYS, Dalz. 
Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, usually very long, often 
subsessile, entire, serrate or sinuate. Flowers in axillary or supra-axillary 
