Excecaría.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 478 
after flowering. Styles free nearly to the base. Seeds subglobose, smooth.— The 
variations in the size of the fruit and seeds are remarkable. 
2. E. acerifolia, F. Didrichs. Plant. Nonnull. Mus. Univ. Hafn. 
7; leaves alternate short-petioled elliptic oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate 
acuminate serrulate or crenulate, nerves strong beneath arched, spikes ter- 
minal and axillary bisexual, bracts broadly ovate acute entire 2-3-fld., male 
sepals lanceolate acuminate entire, fem. broadly ovate acute glandular at 
the base within. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1222; Brand. For. 
#1. 441. E. himalayensis, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 122. Stillingia 
himalayensis, Klotzsch in Bot. Reise Pr. Waldem. 116, t. 21.—Wall. Cat. 
WESTERN and CENTRAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal, Wallich, to Kumaon, alt. 
5-6000 ft., Edgeworth, Strachey & Winterbottom. Kuasta Mrs.; at Nunklow, 
alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. 
A small evergreen tree. Leaves 8-6 by 1-2 in., rather membranous, green when 
dry ; nerves 8-10 pairs; base acute or subacute; petiole 4—4 in., stout, eglandular. 
Spikes 1-2 in., slender; bracts rounded or acuminate ; male fl. sessile; fem. pedicelled. 
Style short, very stout. Capsule about % in. diam., tridymous, smooth. Seeds 
globosely ovoid, mottled.—The Khasian specimens have much narrower leaves than 
the Himalayan, and are referred by Mueller to a variety (E. himalayensis, var. B. 
cuspidata, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 122, and in DC. l. c.). 
3. E. holophylla, Kurz For. Fi. ii. 414; leaves alternate oblong to 
broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate obtusely acuminate quite entire, nerves 
arched very slender, spikes terminal slender, bracts short broad 1-3-fld. 
. female at the base, bracteoles 0, sepals of male very minute subulate. 
Forests of MARTABAN and UPPER TENASSERIM, Kurz; on Thoungun, Brandis. 
An evergreen tree. Leaves 3-6 in., thin, quite glabrous rather polished ; petiole 
-4 in., eglandular. Spike 2 in.; male flowers in scattered clusters, sessile ; bracts 
rounded.—I have seen only a small flowering specimen collected by Brandis and 
named by Kurz, in which the male flowers are as described. 
4. E. rectinervis, Kurz in Herb. Hort. Calcutt.; branchlets very. 
Stout, leaves 5-7 in. coriaceous obovate-oblong abruptly narrowed to an 
obtuse point, nerves numerous nearly horizontal, petiole stout 1-15 in. 
glandular. Actephila rectinervis, Kurz in Trimen’s Journ. Bot. xv. (1875) 
NicoBAR IsLanps; Katchall, Kurz. . h, dull 
Branchiets as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 3—4 in. broad, very smooth, du 
green and leathery when dry; base acute; nerves 12-15 pair, distinct beneath but 
pender, Fruiting raceme axillary, young fruit j in. diam. on a stout pedicel j in. 
g. 
** Leaves opposite. 
5. E. crenulata, Wight Ic. t. 1865; leaves shortly petioled from elliptic 
to lanceolate serrate or crenulate acuminate, spikes axillary and terminai 
unisexual, bracts 1-fld., male fl sessile, fem. pedicelled short few-fld., brac- 
oles subulate as long as the flower, male sepals oblong irregularly toothed, 
em. broadly ovate erose. E. cochinchinensis, Muell. Arg. 1n DC. Prodr. 
Xv. li. 1215; Beddome Forester's Man. 215. E. oppositifolia, Muell. Arg. in 
C. Prodr. xv. ii. 1219 (excl. syn.) (not of Jack) ; Beddomel.c. Salix gla- 
brata, Herb, Heyne. Microstachys, Wall. Cat. 7977 A. 
The Deccan PENINSULA; in woods on the Western Ghats from Coorg south- 
