278 CXXXY. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Cleistantlms. 



12. C- decurrens, Hook.f. : glabrous except the tomentose flowering 

 branchlets and l)racts, leaves 3-7 in. rather thin elliptic-oblong-obovate 

 obtuse or obtusely acuminate quite glabrous base decurrent on the petiole, 

 nerves 5-7 pair very slender, flowers few sessile in axillary clusters or in 

 short lateral naked or small-leaved branchlets, fern, calyx quite glabrous 

 lobes lanceolate, disk very short shortly lobed, petals elliptic, ovary hirsute 

 with erect hairs. 



PEEAK, Scorf echini , Gopinq", King's Collector. 



A small tree, 10-12 ft. (at Goping), branches rather slender, pale, glabrous, 

 branchlets rusty-tomentose. Leaves variable in size and shape, sometimes 2f in. 

 broad, greenish above, reddish beneath, base always very acute and narrowed into or 

 decurrent on the petiole which is |-| in. ; stipules minute ; small leaves on the 

 flowering branchlets obtuse or acute, pubescent beneath. Flowering branchlets ^-2 in., 

 spreading and aecuiVed ; bracts rusty woolly almost concealing the flowers. Calyx 

 about -^ in. diam., fern, alone seen. Styles 3, shortly 2-fid. Fruit not seen. 



13. C. macrophyllus, Hook.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves 8-12 in. thinly 

 coriaceous oblong-ovate obtusely cuspidate base narrowed into the short 

 petiole, fern. fl. sessile ID axillary clusters, bracts very minute ciliate, calyx 

 glabrous lobes ovate, petals subquadrate crenate, disk crenulate with an 

 erect truncate tube enclosing the strigos^ly hispid ovary. 



PEEAK, Scortech'mi. 



Branches rather stout. Leaven 3-5 in. diam., narrowed from above the middle to 

 the acuminate base, smooth and rather shining on both surfaces, midrib raised 

 above; nerves 7-8 pair, arched, cross-nervules reticulate ; petiole 5- in., rather stout. 

 Flowers exserted, buds subglobose ; calyx f in. diam., thickly coriaceous ; lobes 

 broad, tubular sheath of ovary truncate, toothed, at length 5-cleit. Styles 3, 2-fid, 

 arms flabellitbrm. 



14. C. membranaceus, HooTc.f.\ branches slender flowering pubes- 

 cent, leaves 2-4 in. very membranous glabrous elliptic or oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate obtusely acuminate or caudate glaucous * beneath, nerves 10-15 

 pairs very slender, stipules long acicular persistent, flowers subsessile 

 minute, calyx-lobes ovate male nearly glabrous fern, hirsute, capsule small 

 sessile deeply 3-lobed hirsute. 



PEEAK; Larut, King's Collector. 



A tree, 15-20 ft. Leaves very pale when dry, sometimes narrowed to the base, 

 which is rounded or subacute, petiole -yV in., young tomentose ; stipules rigid, 

 sometimes 5 in. long. Calyx -^ in. diam., of fein. with a villous rin^ at the 

 base of the capsule. Petals of male obcuneate, of fern, rhomboid. Disk of fern, a 

 crenulate cup at the base of the ovary. Capsule j in. long; cocci oblong. 



ff flowers more or less pubescent (see also C. mernl-ranaceus). 



15. C. hirsutulus, HooJc.f. ; branches slender hirsutely tomentose 

 with spreading hairs, leaves 4-7 in. membranous obovate-oblong obtusely 

 caudate base rounded pubescent beneath and glaucous, nerves 11-15 pair, 

 flowers in axillary clusters subsessile minute, calyx of both sexes villons 

 lobes ovate, petals of male flabellate 2-partite crenate, capsule sessile deeply 

 3-lobed pubescent. 



PEEAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. Leaves greenish when dry, nerves strong beneath, petiole very 

 short, stout, and midrib beneath tomentose ; stipules ^ in. Calyx -^ in. diam., of 

 fcMii. glabrous \\itbin under the capsule. Disk of male crenulate. Capsule $ in. 

 long, " waxy, rtd." Allied to C. membranaceus, but a much larger species. 



