Pseudolachnostylis.| XX. EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON), 671 
28. PSEUDOLACHNOSTYLIS, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 
XxXvili. 19. 
Flowers dicecious. Petals absent. Male flower: Sepals 5, imbricate. 
Disk annular, glabrous. Stamens 5; filaments connate into a column for 
about half their length; anther-cells parallel, slightly unequal, introrse, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary in the middle of the 
staminal column, often divided. Female flower: Calyx as in the male. 
Disk annular, closely embracing the base of the ovary, often irregularly 
toothed. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3, diverging, very slightly connate at 
the base, bilobed ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule globose or depressed- 
globose, entire, tardily septicidal; endocarp thick and bony. Seed 
solitary in each cell, ellipsoid, strophiolate ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 
flat and broad.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple. 
Male flowers in axillary few-flowered pedunculate cymes surrounded 
by membranous bracts. Female flowers axillary, solitary or subsolitary. 
Species 4, endemic. 
Fruits ellipsoid or ovoid; young shoots and leaves 
glabrous, the latter glaucous below. ‘ . Ll. P. glauca. 
Fruits more or less globose or depressed-globose; young 
shoots and leaves more or less hairy (glabrous in 
2, P. Bussei). 
Leaves glabrous on both surfaces; young shoots 
glabrous; pedicels glabrous (at least when in 
fruit) . : : ; : é : . 2. P. Bussei. 
Leaves hairy on both surfaces or only on the mid- 
rib; young shoots and inflorescence hairy. 
Leaves hairy only on the midrib below : . 3. P. maprouneefolia. 
Leaves hairy over all the lower surface : . 4, P. Dekindtii. 
1. P, glauca, Hutchinson. A tree 12-60 ft. high; trunk straight, 
about 2 ft. in diam., bare of branches for a long distance below; head 
Widely spreading, leafy ; branches subterete, very slightly angular, 
with grey bark; branchlets spreading or suberect, rather slender, 
obtusely angular, suleate, leafy. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 
rounded, emarginate or obtusely pointed at the apex, unequal and 
slightly narrowed or rounded at the base, 1-3} in. long, 1-1} in. broad, 
Corlaceous, very deep green above, highly glaucous beneath, glabrous 
on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, very slender and 
inconspicuous ; petiole rather slender, 3-6 lin. long, glabrous ; stipules 
anceolate, about 1 lin. long, slightly pubescent towards the apex, 
caducous. Male flowers in axillary pedunculate cymes on short lateral 
eafy branchlets ; peduncle }-4 in. long, swollen towards the apex, 
glabrous ; flowers in each cyme subsessile or very shortly pedicellate ; 
Tacts acuminate from a broad base, 1} lin. long, shortly ciliate, other- 
wise glabrous. Sepals 5, ovate, very obtuse or rounded at the apex, 
in. long, 3-1 lin. broad, entire, slightly coriaceous, glabrous. Disk 
‘shy, annular, wrinkled or a little cut up, glabrous. Staminal 
column glabrous, about $ lin. long; filaments free at the top; anthers. 
lin, long, glabrous. Rudimentary ovary small, subentire or slightly 
