474 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEEK. (J. D. Hooker)  [Excacaria. 
wards, ascending to 7000 ft. CEYLON, common in the Central Province, alt. 
4—6000 ft. . 
A small evergreen tree or shrub, branchlets slender, sometimes 4-gonous. Learta 
2-6 in., rather coriaceous, rarely somewhat obovate, base very acute, nerves 10- 1 
pairs, faint, spreading or subhorizontal; petiole 1-3 in. Spikes usually terminal, 
males 1-2 in.; fem. very short, always axillary, sometimes 1-fld.; bracts ero 
bracteoles subulate, erose, conspicuous beyond the bracts. „Sepals 3, of male quie 
free, inserted by a narrow base ; of fem. tl. ovate, acute, with a large gland at tmo 
base within. Styles very short, and stigmas persistent. Capsule $—5 m. ehis? 
deeply 3-lobed, especially at the top; cocci thinly crustaceous, twisted after dehi t 
cence. Seeds broadly ovoid, mottled.—In the absence of authentic specimens o 
E. cochinchinensis, Lour., to which this is referred by Mueller, I hesitate to fol ow 
him, for the subulate bracteoles distinguish it from all the more eastern species that à 
have examined. Some specimens with shorter more coriaceous highly reticulated 
leaves with fewer very prominent nerves look different, but I find no floral character 
whereby to distingnish them. Mueller describes this under the name of E. opposi! " 
folia, Jack in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist., by error for Griffith, l. c. (Jack has no species 
of that name), and he omits Griffith’s Silhet habitat. In fact Griffith’s plant is very 
different from the Deccan one (see No. 8). 
6. E. robusta, Hook. f.; branches very stout, leaves opposite linear- 
oblong acuminate coriaceous entire or sinuate-subserrate, spikes axillary 
unisexual very robust, bracts 1-fld., bracteoles broadly ovate erose, sepals a 
male orbicular irregularly toothed. E. oppositifolia, Muell. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 1219 (not of Lour.).— Wall. Cat. 7968. 
The Concan, Stocks; Mts. of Kurg, Herb. G. Thomson, Wight (in Herb. 
Wall.). ; 
Branches as thick as a goose-quill, Leaves 5-8 by 134-2] in., base acute; nery le 
15-20 pair, very spreading, slender; petiole 4-2 in., very stout, eglandular. Ma e 
spikes solitary, sessile, 4-5 in. ; rachis very stout; bracts small, broad, fleshy ; pid 
teoles large, embracing the unexpanded flower. Male sepals 3, membranous, 2t 
broad cordate, point of insertion small. Fem, fl. not seen. Fruit immature, 3 m. 
diam., on a very short axillary raceme, shortly stoutly pedicelled, 3-lobed, top t! the 
cate, style short persistent.—The robust habit, stout long male spikes and form of th 
, bracteoles and sepals distinguish this at once from E. crenulata. 
7. B. quadrangularis, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. n. 1218; 
branchlets slender 4-gonous, leaves opposite elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceo- 
late acuminate, spikes axillary slender bisexual, bracts 1-fld. serrulate, brag: 
teoles lanceolate erose, sepals of male oblong irregularly spinulose-toothe , 
of fem. ovate acute spinulose-serrate with many subulate processes at the 
base within.—Microstachys, Wall. Cat. 7977 B. 
PENANG and SINGAPORE, Wallich. h 
A shrub or tree with the habit and lanceolate leaves of Æ. crenulata, but 10 
branchlets are more distinctly 4-angled, the leaves more membranous, with only 5d 
pair of more arched nerves, the bracteoles and male sepals are spinously toothed, at 
. M . ies O 
the fem. sepals have a row of fleshy sete at the base within, as in some species 
Sapium. 
8. E. oppositifolia, Griffith in Calcutt. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1v. 986; 
branchlets terete, leaves opposite linear-oblong acuminate entire Or "rire 
serrate, spikes unisexual ? males terminal very slender 1-fld., bracts °K urz 
1-fld., bracteoles 0, sepals broadly oblong toothed. ? E. oppositifolia, 
For. Fl. ii. 414 (excl. syn. Bedd.).— Wall. Cat. 8028, Gnetum. 
B 
SILRET, Wallich, and Hort. Bot. Cale, (Kew Distrib. 4707). ? UpPE 
TENASSERIM, K'urz.—DISTRIB. ? 
