334 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sauropus. 



depressed-globose sessile, epicarp thinly cmstaceous stellately 6-valved, 

 cocci with a large ventral hollow. 



UPPER ASSAM ; Mishmi Hills at Laee pane and Yen, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 4834). 



A shrub, 10 ft. Leaves l-4 in. broad ; petiole in. Calyx-loles in fruit a 

 little enlarged, thick, with rounded thickened and apparently carunculated tips. 

 Fruit f in. diatn., white or flesh-coloured (Griffith); peduncle 1-2 in.; cocci \ in. 

 long. 



8. S. forcipatus, Hook. f. \ quite glabrous, leaves 35 in. mem- 

 branous penninerved elliptic or oblong lanceolate acuminate base acute, male 

 fl. disciform, lobes minute in the centre of the disk, fern. fl. much larger 

 sepals 6 oblong spreading and recurved, ovary oblong, styles or stigmas 3 

 terminal depressed divided into 2 incurved arms like forceps. 



PERAK, Scortechini. 



Branchiets stout, compressed, black when dry. Leaven very thin, 1^2 in. diam., 

 base acute, nerves 7-8 pairs very slender, cross-nervules obscure, petiole -^ in. 

 slender. Male fl. in the axils of minute imbricating: bracteoles shortly pedicclled, 

 \ in. diam., concave or nearly flat, very obscurely 6-lobed ; anthers oblonsr. 

 Fern. fl. $ in. diam., in the same axil with the male; pedicel short, very stout ; sepals 

 coriaceous, tip rounded. 



** Leaves triple-nerved. 



9. S. trinervius, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 72, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 242; shrubby, quite glabrous, branches angled, leaves very shortly 

 petioled ovate or lanceolate acuminate triple-nerved, lobes of male calyx 

 narrow of fern, broad, fruit globose sessile, epicarp thinly crustaceous 

 stellatelv 6-valved, cocci with a large ventral hollow. Phyllanthus tri- 

 nervius," Wall. Cat. 7922. 



SIKKTM HIMALAYA ; in the Teesta Valley, Clarke. SILHET, CACHAR and the 

 KHASIA Mxs., ascending to 4000 ft., Griffith* &?. 



A shrub or bushy tree, 12 ft. Leaves 3-5 in., base cuneate or rounded, nerves 

 very slender; petiole ^ in. ; stipules f in., subulate. Male fl. usually racemed on 

 short axillary peduncles, clothed with minute bracts, pedicel capillary, fern, solitary, 

 both varying from ^ to in. diam. Calyx enlarging but not equalling the fruit in 

 breadth, sepals obovate-oblong. Fruit 1 in. diam. ; cocci % in. long. Clarke describes 

 the male cnlvx as imbricate, incurved, and the fern, as of 3 broad sepals and 3 nar- 

 rower, and 6 yellow glands. 



10. S. repandus, Muell. Arg. in Flora Iv. (1872) 2; glabrous, 

 branches compressed and angular, leaves 3-nerved ovate-lanceolate, flowers 

 in bracteate racemes, male calyx orbicular convex obsoletely 6-lobed, 3 outer 

 fern, sepals triangular ovate obtuse base contracted inner half as long 

 elliptic obtuse, ovary truncate, styles margined. 



STKKIM HIMALAYA ; Nohore, alt. 2400-4000 ft., T. Anderson in Herb. Serol. 



Branchlets and fern, pedicels shortly papillosely hivtellous. Leaves 2-4 in., 

 firmly membranous, base acute, rufescent beneath ; nerves slender, basal about half 

 the length of the leaf; petiole -^-^ in., stipules |-i in. Fruit unknown. Mueller 

 observes that the habit is entirely that of 8. trinervius, but that the leaves are 

 more shortly 3-nerved, and male flower altogether different. I have seen no specimens. 

 Can it be a form of S. albicans ? which has occasionally the lowest pair of nerves 

 rather longer than the others. 



Sect. II. CERATOGYNUM. Styles at the circumference of broad concave 

 top of the low truncate ovary. Leaves \-1 in. 



