Sauropus.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 333 



and zeylanica ; none of Thwaites' or Gardner's specimens have " acutely acuminate 

 leaves," and I find nothing answering to the acute calyx-lobes of zeylanieus figured 

 by Wight. The fleshy aril of some authors is the remains of the septa between the 



2. S. retroversus, Wight Ic. t. 1951; leaves of S. albicans, male 

 calyx reflected on the pedicel in an urceolate form mouth 6-toothed, fern, 

 discoid with 3 outer rounded lobes and 3 inner smaller subacute ones, fruit 

 1 in. white pyriform. Thwaites Enum. 284; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 241. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 4000 ft., Walker, Thwaites, &c. 



The specimens do not enable me to add anything to the above description ; they 

 are in male fl. only, and appear abnormal. The fruit differs wholly from that of 

 albicans. 



3. S. assimilis, Thwaites Enum. 284 ; leaves of S. albicans, male calyx 

 of 6 narrow cylindric incurved obtuse segments. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. 1. 242. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 

 Male flowers alone are known of this curious species. 



4. S. stipitatiiSj Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, branches terete, leaves 

 very shortly petioled ovate-lanceolate acuminate penninerved, fern, calyx 

 6-partite, lobes narrow, fruit globose stipitate, epicarp crustaceous splitting 

 stellately into 6 valves, cocci closed with a very small basal ventral notch. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Darjeeling (Herb. Griffith). 



Leaves 2-3J by |-1 in., base rounded or cuneate ; petiole T \y in. Calyx not or 

 but little enlarged in fruit, 5-partite, segments linear-oblong, obtuse. Fruit % in. 

 diam., globose; peduncle ^ in. Distinguished from 8. albicans by the longer dif- 

 ferently-shaped leaves, calyx and fruit. 1 have seen no male flowers. The female 

 flower is unlike that of the genus. 



5. S. oblongrifolius, Hook.f. ; quite glabrous, branchlets terete, leaves 

 very shortly petioled oblong or linear-oblong obtuse penninerved, calyx dis- 

 ciform 6-lobed, lobes rounded or reniform, fruit depressed globose sessile, 

 epicarp thin crustaceous subvalvular, cocci with a broad ventral hollow. 



UPPEB, ASSAM, Masters ; Dailoon in the MSshmi Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 4821). 



Branchlets slender. Leaves 2^-3 in., dark green, very membranous, base acute ; 

 petiole T L in. Fruit obscurely C-lobed ; peduncle \ in. Seeds \-\ in. long, as in 

 8. albicans. Near S. albicans, but the branchlets are terete, the leaves have parallel 

 sides and are not narrowed towards the tip, and the fruit is smaller, J in. diam., 

 depressed and 6-furrowed, not fleshy, the cocci -^ in. long. 



6. S. lanceolatus, IfooJc. f. ; quite glabrous, branches terete, leaves 

 very shortly petioled lanceolate acuminate penninerved, calyx 6-partite, 

 segments oblong, fruit globose sessile, epicarp thin bursting irregularly, 

 cocci with a very small basal ventral perforation. 



UPPER ASSAM ; Mishmi Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4825). 



- Leaces 3-4^ by 1 in., base rounded or cuneate. Calyx not much enlarged in 

 fruit, segments obloug-obovate, revolute. Fruit % in. diam., smooth, not lobed ; 

 epicarp thinly crustaceous; cocci j in. long. 



7. S. macrophyllus, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, shrubby, branches 

 terete, leaves very shortly petioled 4-8 in. ovate-lanceolate acuminate pen- 

 ninerved, fern, calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes obovate-spathulate, fruit large 



