Cleistanthus.] cxxxv. EUPHOKBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 275 



Muell Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 509; Brand. For. Fl. 450; Gamble Man. 

 Ind. Timb. 358 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 203, t. 23, fig. 5. Cluytia collina, 

 Eoxb. Cor. PL ii. 37, t. 169, and Fl Ind. iii. 732 ; Wall. Cat. 7890. C. 

 retusa & patula, Herb. Wight. Andrachne orbiculata, Roth Nov. Sp. 364. 

 A. Cadishan, Roxb. mss. Emblica Palasis, Herb. Ham. 



Dry hills in various parts of INDIA from SIMLA to BEHAB, and southward to 

 Central India, and the DECCAN PENINSULA. CKJTLON j at Colonna Corle, rare, 

 Thwaites. 



A small tree with very hard wood and spreading rigid twiggy smooth or pustulate 

 branches. Leaves l|-4 by 1^-3 in., pale when dry, loosely reticulate, young mem- 

 branous and faintly pubescent beneath, old hard, base rounded or cordate; petiole 

 in., slender. Clusters 3-6-fld. ; bracts minute, villous. Calyx % in. diam. Petals 

 fleshy, always narrow, incurved. Disk of male pulvinate, of fern, conical with a 

 thick margin, Ovary globose ; styles thick, quite free ; stigmas fleshy, lobed. Cap- 

 sule in. diam., sessile, woody, rounded-3-gonous, top not lobed, dark brown shining 

 and wrinkled when dry. Seeds i in. diam., globose, chestnut-brown ; albumen 

 scanty. The genus Lebidieropsis should probably be restored ; the globose seeds 

 differ wholly from those of any other Cleistanthus. The fruit in Roxburgh's figure 

 is much too oblong. 



2. C. chart aceus, Muell Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 507 ; shoots and 

 flowering branches rusty-tomentose, leaves 5-8 in. coriaceous elliptic- 

 lanceolate obtusely acuminate subsilvery beneath base acute, nerves 8-10 

 pair slender, flowers few in small axillary and short spicate clusters sessile 

 glabrous, calyx-lobes ovate acute, petals cuneate lobed, ovary glabrous, 

 capsule stipitate. C. oblongifolius, Brand. For. Fl. 451 ; Muell. Arg. I. c. 

 (in part}. Amanoa chartacea, Baill. Etudes G-en. JEuphorb. 582. Bridelia 

 chartacea, Wall Cat. 7881. B. oblongifolia, Hook. 8f Arn. Bot. Seech. Voy. 

 202. Cluytia oblongifolia, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 730 ; Wall. Cat. 7887. 



SILHET, Roxburgh, Griffith, &c. ? Andaman Islands, Kurz. DISTEIB. ? Java. 



A small spreading tree, branches pale, glabrous except the shoots. Leaves 1^-3 in. 

 broad, reticulated above by the cross-nervules, beneath appressedly hairy, at length 

 glabrous, base narrowed into a short stout petiole |- in. long. Clusters 3-6 fld., 

 often in short decurved stout rusty-tomentose spikes; bracts short, obtuse, rusty 

 villous. Calyx -^ in. diam. Capsule % in. long and broad, stipitate, woody, 

 laterally 3-lobed, lobes somewhat compressed ; stipes in. long, clothed with the 

 disk, expanding under the cocci into the woody acutely 5-angled base of the columella 



tin. diam. Seeds oblong, 3-gonous, faces undulate. The Javan and the Andaman 

 land specimens resemble the Indian in foliage, but want flower and fruit. 



3. C. stenophyllus, Kurz For. Fl ii. 370 ; quite glabrous, leaves 

 chartaceous 3-4 in. linear-lanceolate long and thinly acuminate paler beneath, 

 base acute, petiole % in., flowers minute few sessile in small axillary clusters, 

 bracts ciliate, calyx slightly appressed hairy, ovary sessile glabrous. 



TENASSEEIM or ANDAMAN ISLANDS (Kurz). 



I know of this only by the above description taken from Kurz. It is probably a 

 plant of Heifer's, whose Andaman and Tenasserim collections were not separated ; 

 but for the hirsute ovary I should have referred my C. lanceolatus to this. 



4. C. myrianthus, Kurz For. Fl ii. 370 ; branches stout and leaves 

 beneath finely fulvous-tomentose, leaves 6-9 in. coriaceous narrowly linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate base acute, nerves 16-20 pairs arched, flowers many in 

 dense axillary clusters glabrous sessile, calyx-lobes ovate acute, petals 

 broadly flabellate crenate, ovary glabrous, capsule stipitate. Gamble Man. 

 Ind. Timb. 357. 



MALAY PENINSULA; from Pegu to Tenasserim and the Andamans, frequent 

 Kurz. DISTEIB. Java, Borneo, Philippines. 



