282 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ3. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cleistanthus. 



diam. ; lobes 4-5, very thick; pistillode glabrous. Capsule about in. long, on a 

 stout pedicel -f in. long. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



C. OBLONGIFOLIUS, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 506, is a mixture. Of its two 

 varieties, o. scaber consists of Bridelia pubescens, Kurz (the Sikkim plant), and B. 

 assamica, H. f. (Griffith's 4890). ft. genuina is Cleistanthus chartaceus, Muell. 



C. STIPULATES, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 508 ; shoots pubescent, leaves ovate 

 or ovate-oblong base obtuse or subcordate glabrous above grey-tomentose beneath, 

 stipules long lanceolate acuminate, male fl. pedicelled in small axillary clusters, calyx- 

 lobes ovate pubescent, petals clawed obovate plaited puberuhms, disk low crenate, male 

 fl. and fruit unknown. Beddome Forester's Nan. 203. Lebidiera stipularis, Muell. 

 Arg. in Linnaj, xxxii. 81. Bridelia stipularis, Hook, fy Arn. Eot. Beech. Toy. 211 

 (not of Linn.). Nilghiri Mts., Hohenacker (n. 1551). I knqw nothing of this plant, 

 and I do not understand how it is identified with the B. stipularis of Hook, and Arn. 



WALL. CAT. 8006, from Penang, in leaf only is probably a Cleistanthus ; it has 

 slender tomentose branches, and short broadly elliptic leaves 3-4 by -2 in., with 

 cuspidate tips. 



6. ACTEFHZXiA, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, usually large, quite entire ; stipules 

 deciduous. Flowers in axillary clusters, mono- or di-cecious, petaliferous or 

 not. MALE FL. Sepals 5-6, subequal or the inner larger, imbricate. Petals 

 as many, much smaller, inserted under the 5-lobed disk, or 0. Stamens 

 3-6, on the disk, filaments free or nearly so ; anther-cells parallel. Pistil- 

 lode 3- cleft. FEM. FL. Perianth of the male. Ovary sessile on the 5-lobed 

 disk, 3-<celled ; styles short, free or connate at the base, entire or 2-fid ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule hard, loculicidal or of 3 2-valved cocci. 

 Seeds usually solitary in the cocci, large, 3-gonous, aril or carnncle 0, testa 

 brittle, very thin, albumen scanty or 0; cotyledons fleshy, folded or 

 crumpled together. Eeputed species about 10, Malayan and Australian. 



Mueller's sections " Monoecious" and " Dioecious" are annulled by Kurz's observa- 

 tion, that puberula is either ; and the distinctions drawn from the form of the sepals 

 and petals are not reliable. The glands at the base of the fern, sepals are probably 

 present in all the species. 



1. A. excelsa, Muell. Arg. in Linnoea xxxii. 78, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 222 ; glabrous or with the shoots and young leaves beneath minutely 

 puberulous, leaves 3-8 in. long- or short-petioled linear-oblong to elliptic- 

 lanceolate or -obovate acute acuminate or cuspidate, base acute, sepals 

 oblong, petals narrow. Beddome Forester's Man. 189, t. 23, f. 3. A. neil- 

 gherrensis, Wight Ic. t. 1910. Anomospermum excelsum, Dalz. in Hook. 

 Kew Journ. Bot. iii. (1851) 228; Dalz. $* Gibs. Bomb. FL 233. Croton 

 laevigatum, Wall. Cat. 7749 (not 7735). 



UPPER ASSAM; Mishmi Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4892). SILHET, the 

 KHASIA MTS. and CHITTAGONG. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. DKCCAN PENINSULA ; 

 on the Western Ghats, from the Concan to Travancore, ascending to 5500 ft. CEYLON, 

 ascending to 2000 ft. DISTRIB. Java. 



A small evergreen shrub, 4-8 feet, or a tree. Leaves hardly coriaceous, greenish or 

 \c-llowish when dry, nerves 6-12 pairs arched, surfaces subsimilar, petiole -H " 

 Flowers male and tern, in the same cluster or not j males several, shortly pedicelled ; 



