EUPHORBIACEiE. 365 



lengthening with the developing fruit and at length 

 y^ inch : sepals oblong 112 inch: style stout slightly 

 longer, cylindrical, truncate. Capsule depressed- 

 globose, of five to six rounded bilobed segments each 

 with two red seeds. Wight Ic. t. 1907/2. 



Nilgiris : near Ootacamund and Lovedale. Pulneys : at 

 lower levels, e.g., Shembaganur 5,500 feet. Fyson ^i2>^ hot,. 

 Bourne 132. 



Gerh Dist. The species was founded by Wight on a Nilgiri specimen. 

 If the other sheets at Kew are correctly placed (in 1914), the species ranges 

 from Nepal, Sikkim and Khasi hills to Canara and Mysore. But in some 

 of these the leaves are larger, thinner and less hairy. 



DAPHNIPHYLLUM. f.b.i. 135 xxii. 



Trees with alternate entire leathery feather-veined 

 leaves and lax axillary racemes of flowers with three to 

 eight sepals but no petals : the male with large almost 

 sessile anthers ; the female with a two-celled ovary with 

 two ovules in each cell, pendulous with ventral raphe, and 

 ripening to an olive-like drupe with one seed, containing 

 much endosperm. Embryo small with narrow cotyledons. 



Species 10 in tropical Asia, and Malay archipelago, 

 tropical Africa. 



Daphniphyllum glaucesccns Blume ; F.B.I. v 353, 

 XXII 3. Tree with oblong rounded outline, and pecu- 

 liarly erect leaves with recurved margins, their backs 

 showing outwards. Branches striated and rough with 

 numerous broadly heart-shaped leaf-scars and circular 

 bud-scars. Leaf-stalks J^ to 2 inches, pink : blades 2 to 5 

 by ^ to 2 inches elliptic, obtuse, acute at the base, with 

 recurved margins, quite glabrous, usually tufted at the 

 ends of the branchlets, erect and showing to the outside 

 the bluey-green undersurface with its very clear network 

 of veins. Flowers in racemes in the axils of the upper 

 leaves. Male pedicel % inch ; perianth small, green : 



