PkyUantJms.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 297 



connate for to their length ; I find them free, but in dried flowers of such excessive 

 minuteness it is impossible to be precise. Mueller gives Khasia, 2-5000 ft., as the 

 habitat of my specimens, but I suspect some mistake as to the 2000, for I found it 

 only at Kulluug Rock ; it was perhaps confounded with the following in the distri- 

 bution. 



30. P. missionis, HooJc.f.\ shrubby, quite glabrous, branches very 

 slender, leaves i- in. petioled very membranous elliptic acute at both ends 

 or obovate obtuse or apiculate, stipules ovate oblong obtuse, flowers clus- 

 tered or the fern, solitary pedicelled, sepals broad with broad white margins, 

 filaments united f way up recurved, anthers reniform, styles erect and re- 

 curved arms slender, capsule very small. P. tenellus, Wall. Cat. 7892 A 

 and B in part. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne in Serb. Wallich. 



Stem strict, erect, terete, slender, stiff, leafy, branches ascending. Leaves \ in. 

 broad, very thin, hardly glaucous beneath; nerves 4-5 pair, spreading; petiole 

 slender, -^"TO m ' 5 stipules brown when dry, inserted by a broad base. Flowers 

 2TJ~rV ' m ' diam., males on unequal pedicels to 8 in., of fern. in., fruiting^ in. diam., 

 spreading ; sepals thin, obtuse. Disk of male of large entire peltate glands, of fern, 

 broadly lobed ; anthers dehiscing across the top. Styles connate at the very base. 

 Capsule % in. diam., smooth, depressed globose, obscurely lobed. Seeds not seen. 

 A very distinct species in the obtuse stipules, clustered flowers and longer styles not 

 reflexed on the ovary, but rising up. 



31. P. Clarkei, HooJc.f. ; shrubby, branches woody, branchlets sca- 

 berulous, leaves -J-f in. petioled firm cuneate obovate or obcordate tip 

 rounded or retuse, nerves distinct, stipules membranous fimbriate, flowers 

 subsolitary, pedicels of male short of fern, almost equalling the leaves, 

 filaments very short recurved, anthers didymous cells separate, styles free 

 reflexed, arms incurved. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. ; at Catsuperri, alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. UPPER 

 ASSAM, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4801). 



A rigid shrub ; branches spreading ; branchlets grooved, stiff, angles rough. 

 Leaves green when dry, paler beneath ; nerves 3-4 pair, slender ; petiole slender, -^ in. 

 Flowers arising from minute clusters of bracts, -^ in. diam. ; pedicels of male ^ in. 

 and upwards, of fern. - in. Sepals broadly oblong, rather thick. Disk of male of 

 peltate entire glands, of fern, cupular obscurely lobed. Ovary globose ; styles rather 

 large, arms cylindric long but not slender. Very distinct from all others. I found a 

 similar species in Sikkim, but with sessile exactly elliptic leaves, but out of flower 

 and fruit ; Griffith has also, in bad state, what I take to be my Sikkim plant from 

 Upper Assam and the Khasia Mts. 



32. P. brevipes, HooJc.f. ; shrubby, quite glabrous, branches rigid 

 leaves - in. petioled elliptic or obovate-oblong subacute or obtuse, nerves 

 distinct, stipules membranous fimbriate, flowers very shortly pedicelled from 

 tufts of fimbriate bracts, filaments connate at the base, anthers didymous, 

 styles minute reflexed 2-lobed, capsule minute, seeds striated. 



UPPER ASSAM; Mishmi Hills, Griffith (Anisonema, Keiv Distrib. 4821). 



A scraggy shrub, Griff. ; branches spreading, bark brown, rather densely leafy. 

 Leaves pale grey green when dry, hardly paler beneath, thinly coriaceous, base acute, 

 nerves distinct on both surfaces ; petiole -^ in. ; stipules broadly ovate. Floicers in 

 all the axils, usually solitary or a male and female together, Jg- in. diam. ; pedicels of 

 male about as long, of fern, rather longer. Sepals of male broadly obovate, of fern, 

 narrower, not enlarged, nor reflexed in fruit. Disk of male of orbicular glands, of 

 fern, deeply broadly 6-lobed. Capsule f a T in. diam., depressed-globose, 3-lobed, quite 

 smooth. Seeds with 5 dorsal strire, each of a series of hardly raised minute transverse 

 dots. 



