274 cxxxv. EUPHORBiACE^}. (J. D. Hooker.) \JBridelia. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



B. ALNIFOLIA, Griff. Notul. iv. 481; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 502; 

 branches rusty pubescent, leaves oblong obovate obtuse base subcordate pubescent, 

 flowers monoecious in the same clusters, calyx green with blood-red spots, petal* 

 repand-sinuate. Tenasserim, at Mergui, in wet places, Griffith. Possibly B. stipularis 

 (\vhichthespottedflowersresemble), but Griffith does not say whether the calyx of 

 alnifolia is glabrous or pubescent. 



B. OVATA, Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 484 ; shoots and all parts glabrous, leaves 

 petioled coriaceous oblong or elliptic-oblong obtuse mucronate or apiculate base acute 

 or obtuse pale beneath, nerves 10-20 pairs, flowers minute in dense axillary clusters 

 glabrous, males shortly pedicelled, fern, sessile, disk cup-shaped, fruit globose seated on 

 the unaltered calyx. Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 364. B. ovata, . acutifolia, and 

 7. genuina, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 495. Burma, at Melloon, Wallich. 

 Malacca, Herb. DC. Tenasserim and Andaman Islands, Heifer (No 4884), all accord- 

 ing to Mueller. I fail to identify this amongst Heifer's or Wallich's plants. Kurz's 

 B. ovata is a different plant (B. Grffithii, p. 272). Dr. King has sent me a speci- 

 men of B. ovata, Dene., procured by Kurz from the Bintenzorg Botanical Gardens, 

 which agrees with the above description, except in having only 6-9 pair of nerves. 

 Dr. King further informs me that there is no Andaman specimen of it in the Calcutta 

 herbarium, where Kurz has given that name (B. ovata, Dene.) to Griffith's and 

 Maingay's specimens of B. pustulata. 



B. SINICA, Orah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 179, described as capsular, is probably Cleis- 

 tanthus malabaricus. 



B. UETICOIDES, Griff. Notul. iv. 481; Muell. Arg. 1. c.\ branches warted, leaves 

 lanceolate acuminate subentire dark green and shining above subglaucous and verv 

 shortly pubescent beneath, stipules linear membranous brown caducous, clusters axil- 

 lary, or inflorescence naked, flowers numerous minute monoecious in the same cluster 

 odour of Heliotrope, calyx pubescent outside, petals ovate entire or toothed. Tenas- 

 serim ; shores of Madama Island, Griffith. Probably B. tomentosa. 



5. CLEISTANTHUS, HooJc.f. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, bifarious, quite entire. Flowers 

 or minute, in axillary clusters and spikes, monoecious, sessile or the 

 females pedicelled. Calyx 5(4-6)-cleft ; lobes valvate. Petals as many, 

 minute. Disk of the male flat or pulvinate ; of the female conical or tur- 

 binate, more or less enclosing the young ovary. Stamens 5, filaments 

 united in a column in the centre of the disk, and bearing a pyramidal or 

 3-lobed pistillode, free above and spreading ; anther-cells parallel. Ovary 

 3-celled, usually clothed with long hairs ; styles 3, free, bifid ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Capsule sessile or stipitate, subglobose or depressed, of 3 2- 

 valved cocci. Seeds without aril or caruncle ; albumen copious or scanty ; 

 cotyledons thin or fleshy, often folded. Species about 30, Tropical Indian, 

 Malayan and African. 



* Ovary quite glabrous. 



1. C. collinus, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 268 ; leaves coriaceous 

 orbicular broadly obovate or elliptic tip rounded or retuse glaucous beneath, 

 nerves 5-8 pair spreading very slender, flowers in small axillary and shortly 

 spicate clusters silkily villous, calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, petals narrow, 

 ovary glabrous, styles free clavellate, capsule large obscurely 3-lolx'd. 

 Bridelia collina, Hook. $ Arn. Bot. Seech. Voy. 211 ; Wall. Cat. 7877. 

 Amanoa collina, Baill. Etudes Gen. EupUorb. 582 ; Thwaites JEnum. 280. 

 Lebidieropsis collina, Muell. Ary. in Linnaa xxxii. 80. L. orbicularis, 



