330 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE2B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Jlreynia. 



P. glaucifolius, Wall. mss. P. rhamnifolius, Herb. Heyne. P. virosus, 

 Herb. Wight. P. ceriums, Herb. Ham. Rheede Hort. Mai. v. t. 43. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Nepal to Mishmi, ASSAM, the KHASIA MTS., SILTTET 

 CHITTAGONG, MUNNIPORE and HUKMA. The DKCCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan 

 and Orissa southwards. CEYLON ; ascending to 3000 ft. 



An erect tree (Roxb.) ; a shrub 3-6 ft. (Kurz) with spreading branches. Leaves 

 distichous, -1 in, long, rather glaucous beneath, brown when dry ; nerves 3-5 pair, 

 raised, nervules lax; petiole -j^-i in.; stipules minute, acute. Male fl. _ ^ Jg. in., 

 drooping, pedicels capillary. Calyx turbinate or campanulate, thickened rim of 

 tube crenate. Staminal column produced beyond the anthers. Fem.fl. y 1 ^ ^ in. diain., 

 shorter pedicelled. Calyx broadly funnel-shaped, often exceeding the fruit ; lol>es 

 reniform, apiculate. Ovary truncate; style very stout, with 3 short forked arms. 

 Fruit \\ in. broad. Seeds with the ventral edge entire. 



2. 8. angnstifolia, HooJc.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves oblong or linear- 

 oblong tip rounded base unequal, flowers shortly pedicelled, male calyx 

 campanulate, outer margin of tube raised 6-lobed lobes usually retuse or 

 emarginate, fern, broadly funnel-shaped with 6 broad rounded apiculate 

 lobes, fruit small depressed globose seated on the much enlarged calyx. 



PEGU ; at Rangoon, M'Lelland. TENASSEEIM, at Mergui, Griffith ; Moulmein, 

 Parish. PERAK, King's Collector. 



A shrub ; branches and branchlets terete. Leaves, | 1 by 3 J in., rather mem- 

 branous, close set distichously on the branchlets, paler or glaucous beneath ; petiole 

 -rg YO in. ; stipules very minute. Flowers solitary or clustered, very minute, pedicels 

 usually rather longer than the calyx, slender. Male calyx yg T V in- ; fern. y^-f. 

 Staminal column truncate. Ovary turbinate, sides grooved ; style very stout, vvitli 

 3 short recurved 2-lobed arms. Fruit % in. diam. Seeds with the ventral edge acute 

 entire. 



3. E. coronata, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves ovate obtuse glau- 

 cous beneath, flowers solitary very shortly pedicelled, male calyx hemispheric 

 outer margin of tube obtusely toothed, fern, broadly infundibular, ovary 

 included broadly cuneiform truncate top concave with 3 minute central 

 stigmas very globose crowned with a raised ring seated on the enlarged patel- 

 liform calyx. 



PEEAK, King's Collector. 



A small tree, 10-20 tt. ; branchlets compressed and leaves above black when dry. 

 Leaves 1^-2^ in., membranous, nerves 5-6 pair, very slender; petiole in., slender, 

 stipules minute subulate. Malefl. -J- e in. diam.; mouth very minute; pedicel slender; 

 fern. fl. |- in. long, pedicel stouter. Fruit globose, ^ in. diam., red, epicarp thin, eudo- 

 carp coriaceous 6-valved ; cocci 6, trigonous ; enlarged calyx ^ in. diam. 



** Calyx of female slightly enlarged in fruit. 



4. B. rhamnoides, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 440 (excl. vars. a.,y.); 

 shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves shortly petioled membranous elliptic ovate 

 or rounded obtuse or subacute, flowers on short pedicels, calyx of male tur- 

 binate or subcampanulate mouth of tube entire or obscurely lobed, of fern, 

 hemispheric shortly 6-lobed, ovary truncate, fruit small globose seated on 

 the small slightly enlarged calyx. Brand. For. Fl. 455 ; Kurz For. Fl. 

 ii. 350; Beddome Forester's Man. 196 (t. xxiv. f. 2, by error named Melan- 

 thesopsis petens). B. oblongit'olia, Muell. Arc;. 1. c. 400 (the Penang plant 

 only). Melanthesa rhamnoides, Wight Ic. t. 1898 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 ii. 370; Thwaites Enum. 285. Phyllanthus rhamnoides, Willd. $p. PI. iv. 

 580 (not of Roxb.}. P. Vitis-idsBa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 665. P. tristis, A. 

 Juss. Tent. JGupkorb. 108, t. 5, f. 16. P. sepiarius, Roxb. mss.; Wall. Cat. 



