4'2 Euphorbiacece. [Antidesmcu 



This genus is considered by some botanists the type of a distinct 

 natural order. 



I>. g-laucescens, Bl. Bijd. 1153 (1826). 



Goui:;hia* ncilgherrensis, Wight, Ic. v. 2, 22. D. 7ieilghcrretise, Thw. 

 Enum. 290. C. P. 491. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 353 {D. s^laiicescens, Bl.). Wight, Ic. tt. 1878, 9. Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 288 {D. Roxhurghii, Baill.). 



A small tree ; branchlets stout, prominently marked with 

 scars of the petioles; young parts glabrous; 1. numerous, 

 closely placed near end of year's growth, 2^-4 in., obovate- 

 oblong, tapering to base, rounded at apex, glabrous, usually 

 glaucous beneath, venation reticulate; petiole long, f-i] in. ; 

 il. on longish ped., in short racemes from axils of lower I.; 

 sep. obtuse; fil. very short, anth. erect, blunt, apiculate, very 

 much larger than the sep.; fr. about \ in., ovoid, glabrous, 

 tipped with style-base. 



Forests of montane zone, 4-7000 ft. ; rather common. Maturata ; 

 Pedurutalagala ; Hakgala ; Galagama ; Ambagamuwa. Fl. July; 

 yellowish. 



Also in S. India, Java, and China. 



Habit of a lauraceous plant ; young leaves often pale pink. 



18. ANTZDSSniA,! Z. 



Trees or shrubs; 1. entire, stipulate; fl. very small, dioecious, 

 in lax spikes ; male fl. : — cal. of 3-7 imbricate segm, ; disk 

 entire or lobed ; stam. 3-5, inserted on disk, fil. inflexed in 

 bark, anth. -cells often distant ; pistillode generally minute ; 

 fern. fl. : — cal. as in male; disk annular or pulvinate; ov. usually 

 I -celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; stigmas 2-4; fruit small, 

 drupaceous, more or less compressed, juicy ; cotyledons flat, 

 endosperm fleshy. — Sp. about 60; 32 in Fl. B. Ind. 



* Commemorates George Gough, B. C. S., who in 1842 explored the 

 Nilgiris with Genl. Munro. 



t Name bestowed by Burmann on A. zeylanicum, on the supposition 

 that it was the 'Noeli-tali' of Rheede, Hort. Mai. iv, 115 (really A. 

 Bunius), which is said to cure the bite of the cobra. 



