Alehornea.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 421 
Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. vi. (1854) 8. Rottlera mollissima, Wall. Cat. 
7825. Sapium cordifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 693. 
CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA, in hot valleys; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, 
Clarke. Assam, Masters. The Crroars, Roxburgh. 
A small tree; branches woody ; branchlets petioles leaves beneath and racemes 
finely pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 4-6 in. diam., with usually large glands at 
the base above ; petioles stout, 2-6 in., terete; stipules small, subulate; stipelle 
tin. Male racemes 4-6 in., very slender, pubescent ; buds ji, in. diam., globose, 
glabrous, grooved between the anthers; calyx membranous, glabrous, usually bursting 
irregularly. Fem. racemes 4-6 in., bracts small; base of calyx eglandular; sepals 
èin., lanceolate, pubescent; ovary tomentose, styles free nearly to the base. Cap- 
sules } in, diam.—I have seen no specimens from the Circars, and have no means of 
Verifying the citation of Roxburgh’s Sapium cordifolium. 
. 2 A. villosa, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 168, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 
4. 902; pubescent or tomentose, leaves short-petioled ovate acuminate 
serrulate pellucidly dotted, base rounded cuneate or cordate, bracts and 
sepals narrowly lanceolate hispidly hairy all over, styles twice as long or 
more than the pubescent ovary, capsules globose faintly 3-lobed rather 
rough or smooth glabrous or puberulous, seeds nearly as broad as long 
dorsally compressed tubercled. A. Zollingeri, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. Ed. ii. 
37. Stipellaria villosa, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. vi. (1854) 4. Aparisth- 
mium sumatranum, Zécichb. f. et Zoll. in Retzia 37. Bleekeria Zollinger, 
Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 407. 
Matacca, Cuming, Griffith, &e, (Kew Distrib. 4749), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 
1379) PERAK, Scortechini, Wray, &c. — DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. . . 
Branchlets and racemes pubescent, tomentose, or villous with spreading hairs. 
aves 4-6 in. broad, with or without basal glands; petiole 1-2 in.; stipelle 4 m, 
Male racemes slender, pubescent ; buds ;; in. diam., subglobose, hispid; flowers very 
minute; sepals 2-3, stamens 8. Fem. fl. including the capillary styles }-} in.; 
sepals and bracts together about 12, very unequal; ovary glabrous. Capsule size of 
pea. 
Var. glabrata; leaves glabrous beneath.— Penang, Curtis. 
Var. ? latisepala ; leaves pubescent on the nerves beneath only, sepals and bracts 
ovate obtuse or acute coarsely ciliate closely imbricate, styles shorter stouter.— 
Tenasserim, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4752).— Probably a different species. 
3. A. discolor, Hook. f; branchlets petioles and racemes finely 
pubescent, leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate serrate nearly glabrous not 
pellucidly dotted red-purple beneath, ovary sparsely pubescent, styles unite 
form 3 their length.— Wall. Cat. 7777. 
Penana, Wallich, Walker; on Gool Hill, Curtis. boy 
, ranches woody. Leaves 4-6 in., base narrowed, green and glabrous a ove 
With usually basa] glands, beneath a fine vinous purple; nerves 6-7 pairs above ‘les 
‘sal, slender, pubescent, cross-vervules raised ; petiole 2-5 in., very slender ; ae id. 
liform ; stipelle narrow. Male racemes 2—4 in., slender; buds j; in. diam., PM 
am. racemes slender; bracts subulate; calyx-base glandular ; sepals o, e one 
Subulate, unequal ; ovary glabrous with the style Lin. long. —Wallich’s specimens have 
icker opaque leaves, in which I do not see the pellucid glands. 
P 4. A. tiliæfolia, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxi. 168, and in DC. 
rodr. xv, ii, 903; branches petioles and racemes finely pubescent, leaves 
Ong petioled from broadly ovate to orbicular cuspidately acuminate or 
c udate dentate or serrate most minutely pellucidly dotted, ovary pubescent, 
211.58 equalling the oblong or subglobose tubercled capsules, seeds obovoid- 
oblong nearly smooth. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 386. Stipellaria tilizefolia, Benth 
