332 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) \Breijnia. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



B. PANICULATA, Spreng. PugilL. ii. 93 ; MuelL Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 442, 

 a plant with 5 glaudular-crisped stigmas, cannot be of this genus. The only locality 

 given is Mountains of India. 



Nelanthesopsis fruticosa, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 349, cannot well he Mueller's plant of 

 this name, which has terete branches, and has not been found elsewhere in India. 

 Kurz's plant grows in dry hill forests of Martaban at 2500-4000 ft. elevation. 



Breynia sp. ? from Bamo in Burma, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4818), a fragment of a 

 plant resembling a B. reclinata with 6 erect conical styles ? surrounding the truncate 

 top of the ovary. A somewhat similar plant from the Calcutta Bot. Garden has 3 

 erect bifid styles from the truncate top of the ovary ; it is a mere fragment. The 

 leaves resemble those of JB. coronata. 



14. SAUROPUS, Blume. 



Small shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, distichous, mem- 

 branous, quite entire ; stipules minute. FLoivers minute, axillary, monoecious, 

 apetalous, solitary or clustered. MALE FL. Calyx disciform, urceolate or 

 turbinate, 6-lobed or -cleft, mouth very small, with superficial thickenings tha.t 

 meet around the stamens. Stamens 3, filaments combined in a very short 

 truncate 3-gonous column, anthers sessile on the angles of the column ; 

 cells linear or subglobose, parallel, extrorse. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Calyx 

 6-cleft, persistent, accrescent. Ovary ovoid or globose, top rounded or con- 

 cave, 3-celled ; styles 3, sessile, depressed, spreading, with 3 recurved or 

 incurved arms ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit globose or depressed, epicarp 

 fleshy or coriaceous, 6-valved or rupturing irregularly, containing 6 inde- 

 hiscent 3-gonous crustaceous or bony cocci. Albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 broad, flat. Species about 20, Indian and Malayan. 



Sect. I. EUSAUROPUS, Muell. Arg. Styles apical or subapical. Leaves 

 l|-4 in. long. 



* Leaves penninerved. 



1. S. albicans, Blume Bijd. 596; quite glabrous, branchlets angular, 

 leaves very shortly petioled ovate-oblong obtuse or acute penninerved, male 

 calyx disciform 6-lobed, lobes broad, fruit sessile white f in. diam., epicarp 

 fleshy bursting irregularly, cocci with a broad ventral hollow. Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 240 ; Baill. Etudes G-ev. Fuphorb. 635, t. 27, f. 19, 20; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 349; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 366; Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 

 ed. 2, 49. S. indicus, Wight Ic. t. 1952 ; Miquel 1. c. ; Hassk. I. c. 51. S. 

 Gardnerianus, Wight Ic. t. 1951 ; Thwaites JLnum. 284. S. zeylanicus, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1952. Agyneia ovata, Miquel 1. c. 367. Phyllanthus strictus, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 670 ; Wall. Cat. 7933. Cluytia androgyna, Linn. Mantiss. 

 128. 



SIKKIM: HIMALAYA; hot valleys, /. D. H. SILHET and the KHASIA HILLS and 

 Burma, Wallich, &c., to TENASSEBIM, MALACCA and PEN AM G. TRAVANCORE, 

 Wight. CEYLON ; Central Province, ascending to 4000 ft. DISTKIB. Java, 

 Philippines. 



An erect undershrub, with often a slender simple stem umbellatcly branched at 

 the top ; stem and branches terete, green. Leaves 1^3 in., glaucous beneath ; 

 petiole -5^5 in., slender; stipules persistent. Flowers small, males -% in. diam., 

 greenish red ; pedicels capillary. Calyx-lobes of fern, broad, obtuse, emarginate 

 or 2-lobed, rather enlarged in fruit. Jfrutt with a fleshy epicarp ; cocci | in. long. 

 Odour ot the whole dried plant like celery. Mueller describes the fruit as stipitate, 

 but it is quite sessile ; possibly he took & stipitatus for the same species. , I can 

 hardly recognize Mueller's two varieties (Lituuza xxii. 72, and DC. I. c.), Gardneriana 



