280 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cleistanthus. 



glabrous. Spikes axillary', more or less recurved, rather shorter than the leaves ; 

 clusters 2-3 fld. ; bracts very short, nearly glabrous, large rounded concave, smaller 

 oblong ; flowers 4-5-merous. Calyx % in. diam. ; lobes obtuse. Disk cupular. 

 Staminal column short with a large obtuse hairy pistillode. Fern. ft. and fruit wanting. 



19. C. ferrugrineus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 507 ; glabrous 

 except the inflorescence, leaves 4^6 in. coriaceous elliptic or oblong-lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate base acute or obtuse, nerves 3-5 pair very strong beneath, 

 flowers solitary or few in a cluster or axillary and in very short axillary 

 spikes pedicelled rusty-tomentose, calyx-lobes oblong-ovate subacute, petals 

 deeply irregularly acutely lobed, ovary densely tomentose, capsule shortly 

 stipitate rnsty-tomentose. Beddome Forester's Man. 203. Amanoa fer- 

 ruginea, Thwaites Enum. 280; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 50, t. 27, 

 f. 1-4. 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, ascending to 3000ft., Thwaites. 



Branches quite glabrous except the tips. Leaves greyish green when dry, pale 

 beneath, lower nerves very long, cross-nervules faint ; petiole -j in., glabrous. 

 Flowers 25 in a cluster or solitary ; pedicels sometimes as long as the calyx ; bracts 

 very minute, rusty tomentose. Calyx T \j in. diam., lobes obtuse. Petals very 

 irregular. Staminal column short ; pistillode prismatic with pubescent angle?, 

 truncate. Disk of male pulvinate. Capsule ^ in. long, deeply 4-lobed ; pedicel stout. 



20. C. nitidus, Hook. f. branches and petioles finely tomentose, 

 leaves membranous glabrous oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate caudate- 

 acuminate margins undulate base rounded or caudate shiny above paler or 

 glaucous beneath, nerves 8-12 pair very slender, flowers few in small axillary 

 clusters sessile densely tomentose, calyx-lobes ovate acute, petals of male 

 flabelliform crenate of fern, obovate, ovary densely hirsute with erect hairs, 

 styles 3 slender bifid to the middle. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Singapore, Lobb. PENANG, Curtis. 



Branches very slender. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1 i Q -> greyish green when dry, and 

 polished above, faintly reticulated beneath ; petiole very short, ^ in. Clusters 2-4-fld. ; 

 bracts very short, villous. Calyx of fern, cleft half-way down. Disk of male broad 

 plane, of fern, cupular at length 5- lobed. Ovary globose ; styles 2- fid to the middle. 

 The Singapore specimen is a female, the Penang a male. 



21. C. Helferi, Hook. f. ; branches and leaves beneath fulvous- 

 tomentose, leaves linear-oblong acute or subacute sparsely pubescent above 

 strongly reticulate beneath, nerves 6-10 pair spreading and arched, stipular 

 bracts setaceous longer or shorter than the flowers, flowers few in axillary 

 clusters tomentose sessile, calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, petals of male 

 broadly ovate sessile of female rhombic-ovate obscurely toothed, ovary 

 densely hispid with long stiff hairs. 



TENASSEBIM, Heifer (Kew Disf.rib. 4886) ; Mergui, Griffith. 



Branches fulvous-tomentose. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 2-5 by |-1| in., pale grey- 

 brown when dry, base subacute or rounded ; petiole in., tomentose. Male and 

 fern, flowers similar, nearly * n - diam., glabrous within, fulvous-tomentose without. 

 Disk of male adnate to the perianth -tube, of the fern, erect, 5-lobed, thin. Staminal 

 column with a 3-lobed top. Styles 3, long, 2-nd. Capsule - in. long, sessile, shortly 

 oblong, hairy. 



22. C. HXaing>ayi, Hook.f. ; branches and young leaves softly rusty- 

 tomentose, leaves pale elliptic- or obovate-oblong caudate-acuminate reti- 

 culate and finely pubescent beneath, nerves 6-8 pair arching, flowers few 

 in axillary clusters sessile hirsute, calyx-lobes lanceolate finely acuminate, 

 petals obovate subentire, ovary densely hirsute with long erect hairs, styles 

 y 2-fid. 



