296 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phyllanihus. 



Gen. Euphorb. 628. P. Miquelinnus, Muell. Arg. II. c. P. fruticosus, Herb. Heyne, 

 Wall. Cat. 7899 A. P. debilis, Wight mss. P. marginatus, Herb. Heyne. P. de- 

 pressus, Herb. Russell. P. patens, Miquel in Herb. Hohenack. No. 1130. Macraea 

 Gardneriana & ovalifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1902, f. 3 and 4. The Deccau Peninsula and 

 Ceylon, on the hills, alt. 3-6000 ft. This is perhaps a different species ; it is a taller, 

 larger, more branched plant with longer hardly compressed branches, usually fascicled 

 flowers and longer fern, pedicels and style-arms. It seems to be a hill plant. 



Var. pubescens', characters of var. Gardneriana, but whole plant more or less 

 pubescent. Ceylon, on the hills. 



27. P. XKacraei, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 29, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 393 ; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves 1-1 -| in. subsessile broadly 

 elliptic or oblong apiculate rounded at both ends, stipules subsagittate 

 peltate, male fl. clustered shortly pedicelled, fern, pedicels equalling the 

 leaves, filaments free, anthers didymous, ovary pubescent, styles free 

 reflexed, seeds minutely tubercled on the back. Macraea Eheedii, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1901. 



TBAVANCOEE ; Pulney Mts., Wight. 



I have seen no specimens of this, which may be a large-leaved form of P. 



** Stipules simple, not peltately attached or semisagittate. 

 f Shrubs. 



28. P. myrtifolius, Moon Cat. Ceyl. PI. 65 ; a rigid shrub, branch- 

 lets suberect tips puberulous, leaves \-\ in. shortly petioled coriaceous 

 linear-oblong or oblanceolate-oblong obtuse or acute base narrowed cordate, 

 stipules minute broad, pedicels slender fern, often equalling the leaves, 

 filaments connate to the middle, anthers didymous, styles short reflexed 

 arms recurved, capsule small, seeds minutely reticulate on the back. Muell. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 396 ; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 628 ; Thio aites 

 Enum. 283. Macraea myrtif olia, Wight Ic. t. 1902, f. 2. 



CEYLON ; on banks of rivers up to 1800 ft. 



A small shrub, with the habit of P. Roeperianus, but the branchlets are puberulous 

 and terete, the leaves narrower, not glaucous beneath, with the margins not or hardly 

 recurved, the very faint nerves are nearly horizontal, and the stipules minute. 

 Flowers -nj-rV * n - diam., often clustered; pedicels capillary, of both sexes very un- 

 equal in length, sometimes equalling the leaves. Sepals broadly oblong, thick ; of 

 fern, slightly enlarged in fruit and spreading. Disk of male of very large tubercled 

 glands; of fern, an almost entire cup. Capsule depressed-globose, slightly 3-lobed, 

 crustaceous. Seeds beautifully reticulated. 



29. P. Leschenaultii, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 37, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 398; shrubby, very slender, quite glabrous, leaves 1 in. 

 petioled membranous elliptic-oblong obtuse base acute, nerves 6-8 pair dis- 

 tinct, pedicels much shorter than the leaves, filaments free, anthers didy- 

 mous, styles short reflexed arms recurved, capsule minute, seeds ribbed. 



KHASIA MTS. ; at Kullung Rock, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T. (Phyllanth. 22, 

 Herb. 1. O., Hf. Sf T.}. NILGHIBI HILLS, Perrottet, Foulkes. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft. Leaves very thin, dull green above when dry, glaucous beneath, 

 nerves distinct on both surfaces ; petiole T V n> in., very slender ; stipules lanceolate. 

 Male j?. often 3-nate, very shortly pedicelled, ~ in. diam. ; sepals oblong ; disk- 

 glands large. Fern. fl. 7 ' in. ; pedicel \ in. ; sepals slightly enlarged but not reflexed 

 in fruit; styles short, reflexed, arms recurved. Capsule T \ in. globose, smooth, coria- 

 ceous. Seeds with distant very slender ribs. Mueller describes the filaments as 



