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CleistanthusJ] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 277 



8. C. laevis, Hook.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves 3-5 in. coriaceous ovate 

 or ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate base acute or rounded faintly reticulate 

 beneath, nerves 6-10 pair very slender, flowers solitary or few together 

 axillary or in slender axillary spikes quite glabrous, calyx-lobes ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, petals obovate truncately retuse, disk of male cupular lining the 

 calyx-tube, fruit (young) sessile hairy. 



SINGAPORE; jungle behind the Botanical Gardens, Murton. 



A small tree, 15-20 ft. ; branches smooth, woody, but slender, terete. Leaves 

 1^-2|- in. diam., pale grey above when dry, pale brown beneath, quite smooth ; 

 petio.e i-| in. Flowers very few seen ; bracts very small, ovate or rounded, slightly 

 ciliute. Calyx of male -| in. diam. Disk with a raised obscurely crenate border. 

 Staminal column slender ; pistillode short, stout, cylindric, truncate. Young fruit 

 deeply 3-lobed at the top, sparsely hairy. Better specimens of this very distinct 

 species are much wanted. 



9. C. malaccensis, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous except the flowering 

 shoots, leaves 3-6 in. coriaceous elliptic-oblong or lanceolate obtusely sub- 

 caudate acuminate, base acute, nerves 4-6 pair slender, flowers minute in small 

 villous axillary and paniculately spiked clusters glabrous, calyx-lobes of 

 male ovate of fern, lanceolate, petals of male spathulate of fern, rounded, 

 ovary with a few long erect caducous hairs, styles simple. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1373). 



Habit of C . chart aceus ; branches stout; bark pale. Leaves dark brown when 

 dry, paler beneath, very smooth on both surfaces, cross-nervules very faint, base 

 suddenly narrowed and shortly produced on the very short petiole. (Clusters ^^ in. 

 diam. ; spikes stout, often recurved, forming terminal panicles a foot long and less with 

 a leaf here and there; bracts rusty-villous. Calyx -% in. diam., fern, rather the largest, 

 with much narrower apparently deciduous lobes (they easily break away from the 

 flowers). Disk of male pulvinate, of fern, tubular. Filaments very short. Pistillode 

 conical. Ovary elongate ovoid; styles apparently not 2-tid. 



10. C. lancifolius, Hook. f. ; branches and leaves glabrous, leaves 

 4-5 in. elliptic-lanceolate very finely acuminate base acute, nerves 12-15 

 pair very slender, fern. fl. solitary or few together axillary clothed at the 

 base with pubescent bracts, calyx glabrous lobes lanceolate acuminate, 

 petals spathulate entire claw rather long, ovary hirsute. 



TENASSERJM, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 4875). 



Branches slender, terete; tips pubescent. Leaves spreading, f-lf in. diam., 

 thinly coriaceous, nerves slender, tapering point nearly 1 in. long; petiole in. 

 Flowers (unexpanded) ^ in. long. Petals nearly half as long as the calyx. Ovary 

 subglobose, enclosed in the disk ; styles 2-lobed at the tip. Can this be Kurz's C. 

 stenophyilus ? if so, the ovary of that plant is erroneously described as glabrous. 



11. C. gradHs, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, branches very slender, 

 leaves l|-2 in. elliptic-ovate obtusely caudate base acute, nerves 5-7 pair 

 very faint, flowers few in axillary clusters and spikes glabrous, calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate, petals of male very minute linear of fern, elliptic, ovary hirsute 

 enclosed in the membranous elongate 5-partite disk,, capsule sessile quite 

 glabrous. 



PERAK, Scortechini. QUEDAH ; King's Collector. 



A much-branched tree, 18-25 ft.; branchlets divaricate, ultimate almost filiform. 

 Leaves rather coriaceous, pale when dry, sometimes a little glaucous beneath, nerves 

 very obscure; petiole in., very slender; stipules short ovate. Flowers r \j in. diam., 

 male and fern, together; bracts minute, ciliate. Pistillode tomentose. Disk-loles 

 of fern, with truncate tips, together forming a membranous cone. Capsule about 

 | in. long. A very distinct species, allied to C. heterophyllus and patulus. 



