468 OXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker) [Dalechampia. 
Niventri Hirrs, Wight, Gardner ; at Conoor, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. . 
An evergreen twiner; shoots pubescent. Leaves 2-4 in., base cordate 3-5-pli- 
nerved, segments lanceolate; petiole 1-2 in.  Peduncle spuriously axillary, 2-3 in., 
puberulous.—I do not venture to follow Mueller in regarding this plant, which is 
confined to considerable elevations in the Nilghiri Hills, as the same with the D. scan- 
dens, which is found nowhere out of South America. Specimens in fruit are wanted 
to confirm such an identification. 
3. D. Kurzii, Hook. f.; leaves 3-lobed to or below the middle sparsely 
pubescent beneath, lobes lanceolate subserrate lateral erect, peduncles 
equalling the leaves, involucral bracts 3-lobed entire, sepals of fem. 8-10 
filiform ‘hispid pinnatifid segments filiform. D. scandens, Kurz For. Fi. 
400 (not of Linn.). 
RANGOON; at Pegu, M‘Clelland, Kurz. TENASSERIM; at Moulmain, Lobb. 
Stems and petioles sparsely softly hairy. Leaves 4-5 in., base cordate, lobes 
acuminate ; petiole shorter than the blade; stipules oblong-lanceolate. Peduncles 
8-5 in. ; involucral bracts like the leaves, with narrow or broad lobes. Male sepals 
4; fem. 5-8. Ovary scabrid, style } in. long. Fruiting calyx 1 in. diam. Capsule 
of 4 globose cocci. Seeds globose, mottled, 
71. PIMELEODENDRON, Hassk. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, crowded at the ends of the 
branches, quite entire, coriaceous, penninerved; petioles very unequal, 
tumid at the top. Flowers in simple or branched lateral and very short 
axillary racemes, dicecious P, apetalous; pedicels rigid; bracts caducous. 
Mate FL. Calyx saucer-shaped, of 2 very short broad coriaceous compressed 
and appressed imbricating lobes. Disk O. Stamens 12-15, in oue series 
within the margin of the perianth, filaments short, fleshy ; anthers terminal, 
broad, truncate; cells adnate, widely diverging, extrorse. Pistillode 0 
Fe. FL. and fruit unknown.— Species 2 or 3, Malayan. 
P. Griffithianus, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 331; glabrous, leaves 
long-petioled elliptic-ovate .eaudate-acuminate sinuate-serrate, base acute. 
Stomatocalyx Griffithianus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1142 in part. 
MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1400). . 
Branches robust, woody. Leaves 3-5 in., dark brown when dry, nerves 4-5 pars 
arched ; petiole 4-2 in., very slender, terete, swollen at the top. Racemes solitary OF 
crowded, black when dry, 1—£ in., rachis and pedicels very stout; bracts, small, broad, 
obtuse, Perianth + in. diam., coriaceous or fleshy, lips very short. Stamens shorter 
than the calyx-lobes.—Bentham rightly points out that the Bornean plant of Barber 
(also Beccari, No. 293) is a different species; it has more obovate and more obtuse 
entire leaves with more nerves. ? 
71*. HOMALANTHUS, A. Juss. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, broad, entire, often glau- 
cous or hoary beneath, penninerved ; stipules deciduous. Flowers smal 
monccious, in terminal androgynous racemes, apetalous ; males many 12 
each bract; fem. at the base of the raceme, few or solitary in each pe 
or solitary at the ends of the branches. Disk 0. Mate rr. Calyt short, 
compressed, of two flat appressed sepals. Stamens 6-50, rarely fewer, 
filaments very short; anthers exserted, cells short divaricate 2-valv i t 
the top. Pistillode 0. Fem. rr. Calya terete, 2-3-fid. Ovary 2-3-cellec ; 
