Agrostistachys.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 407 
oblanceolate acuminate many-nerved entire or denticulate, stipules very 
long, fem. racemes 1-2 ft., pedicels solitary long, fruit subbaccate. Sarco- 
clinium Hookeri, Thwaites Enum. 279; Baill, Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 310, 
th f. 17,18; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 727; Beddome Forester’s 
an. 206. 
CEYLON; in the Ratnapoora district, T'waites. . 
A moderate-sized tree; branchlets as thick as the middle finger. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, 2-3 ft. by 5-8 in.; base narrowed almost to the insertion; nerves 40-50 
pair, spreading, nearly straight; petiole very stout, }-} in.; stipules 1-33 in., 
subulate from a base 3 in. broad, rigid, striate, brown. Fem. racemes slender, quite 
glabrous, flow ers distant ; pedicels 4-1 in., jointed about the middle; sepals minute, 
triangular; petals? ; ovary obtusely 3-gonous, minutely tomentose; style short, 
thick, 3-fid from the middle, branches emarginate. Capsule 1 in. diam., glabrous; 
cocci rounded. Seeds 4 in. diam.—Male fl. unknown. 
9. A. longifolia, Benth. in Gen. Pl. iii. 303; leaves very coriaceons 
Subsessile from cuneate-obovate to narrowly oblanceolate obtuse or obtusely 
acuminate quite entire, racemes much shorter than the leaves and flowers 
quite glabrous, bracts many-fld., pedicels of fem. fl. very short, ovary POO. 
cent. Sarcoclinium longifolium, Wight Ic. t. 1887-8; Muell. Arg. in . 
f oa xv. ii. 727; Thwaites Enum. 979; Beddome Foresters Man. 205, 
° » i. 1. 
Canara, NILGHIRI and TRAVANCORE HILLS; in mountain woods facing the 
West, Wight, &c. CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft., M. acrae, pe ver 
large shrub; branchlets very stout. Leaves, smaller 3-7 by 1-3$ in. from 
12-16 by 2-3 in., nerves 10-18 pair, not reticulate; stipules $-§ in., subulate set 
a broad base, Male racemes stout ; fem. slender, rarely minutely puberulous ; racts 
broadly ovate, minutely gland-toothed. Sepals of male 2-3, membranous, gta 5-3 o 
of fem, 5, ovate, acute. Petals 5, rounded. Disk-glands very large. Stamens : 
Pistillode 2-3-cleft. Capsule }-} in. diam., very shortly pedicelled, tridymous ; 
cocci globose, smooth, crustaceous. berulous.— 
AR. malayana ; racemes as long as the leaves, rachis and flowers puberulo e 
Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4739), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1407). Singapore 
and Penang, Wallich (No. 7717 in Herb. Benth.), &c.—A Bornean plant ( iti : 
No. 817) is, I think, the same as this; it has, however, broader leaves and straighter 
es, 
Var. latifolia ; leaves 12-18 by 8-6 in., nerves fewer ‘more horizontal, racemes 
much shorter than the leaves quite glabrous.—Perak, Scortechini and King 
ollector. 
^ i anous oblan- 
ceolatens * filipendula, Hook. f; leaves petioled membrano 
e acuminate quite entire, male racemes filiform, bracts distant 5 6-fld. 
m. fl, lon g-pedicelled, ovary glabrous. 
PERAK ; at Larut King’s Collector. SINGAPORE, Hullett. : i 
A tree, 40-60 ft. (in Perak), branches stout. Leaves 12-20 by MERE 
ikam and glossy on both surfaces; nerves 15-20 pair, arched; pe tiae almost 
ten Winged. Male racemes 6-10 in., quite glabrous; bracts i ill oye flowers 
a ed when spread out, smooth ; pedicels exceeding the bracts, capillary scold s 
tante Sepals obovate-oblong; petals hyaline; disk-glands 4-5, d at the base : 
i tillod 8-9, filaments very long and slender, the alternate ones dilate xil 4-6 in. 
ode Q, em. racemes numerous, often fascicled above the leaf-axi p m. 
monety slender ; bracts oblong, obtuse, 1-fld.; pedicels 4-1 in. ; obed, styles 
nons; orange, thick, crenulate; staminodes filiform. Ovary 3- Si j Sty I 
"Though the male specimens are from Perak and the fem. from Singapore, 
