402 EUPHORBIACEAE, [ Antidesma. 
8 var. — Leaves broadly oblong or suborbicular, 6—15" X 4—8", 
obtuse or rounded at both ends, often emarginate at the base. — Var. 8, 
1, 8, Muell. 1. ¢. 
Oahu! Kauai! 
+2. P. Niruri, L. — DC. Prod. l. c. p. 406. — A glabrous annual, mo- 
noecious, about 1 ft. high, erect or decumbent, the seed angular in the 
upper portion. Leaves distichous, oblong or lanceolate, 4—5" 1—1!/2"', 
on petioles of less than !/2, somewhat acute or pertain obtuse. Stipules 
linear-lanceolate, 1/2. Male fl. at the base and the end of a branch, 2—4 
in a cluster on very short pedicels. Calyx 1’ in diameter, parted into 
6 obovate unequal segments, wiih with a green costule. Disk of 6 distinct 
glands. Stamens 3, united. Fem. fl. at the middle or the base of a branch. 
Disk annular, Cepaais ee depressed, smooth, 1”. Styles very 
short, slightly bifid. Seeds minutely striate at the Sack lengthwise. — 
8, 2B Muell. |. ¢ 
arden weed of late raison probably from China. It is found in many parts 
of eee Asia, Africa and Am 
7. ANTIDESMA, L. 
Flowers dioecious, the male in catkins, the female in racemes or 
spikes. Male fl. Calyx of 3—8 segments or lobes, imbricate in the bud. 
Petals wanting or rarely rudimentary. Stamens as many as calycine lobes 
and opposite to them, the anthers 2-celled, with the cells pendulous at 
last and diverging. Disk annular or Seas Ovary rudimentary. 
Fem. fl. Calyx as here. Petals wanting. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 pen 
dulous ovules, surrounded by an annular disk. vatyle short, 3-partite, 
its branches ai iverging, slightly bifid. Fruit a drupe with a bony putamen, 
flattened and oblique. “iy generally solitary, albuminous; cotyledons 
broadly ovate, flat; radicle terete. — Trees or anrahs, with alternate, 
rents epbedantts leaves. 
Nati f the tropical pit of the Old World, chiefly of Malaysia, and extending 
into peeonda: about 66 
Leaves ovate or obovate, eee 1. A. platyphyllum. 
Leaves te or retuse at the base, with a patch of hairs in the 
angle between rib and nf ! 2. A, pulvinatum. 
. A. platyphyllum, Mann, Enum. no. 444. — A tree, 20—30 ft. high. 
tae ovate or obovate, 3—5' X 2—8', on petioles of 11/:—3”, shortly 
long as the calyx or longer. Calyx less than 1”, puberulous, urceolate, 
