HemicycliaJ] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 339 



thinner. Drupe over in. ; peduncle i- in., usually deflexed. I have seen only an 

 indifferent specimen, the leaves of which are almost entire. 



6. K. venusta, Thwaites inHooTc. Journ. Sot. viii. (1855) 272 ; branch- 

 lets glabrous, leaves elliptic or oblong obtuse or acuminate quite glabrous base 

 often oblique, flowers finely tomentose, males clustered, fern, long-pedicelled, 

 stamens 5-8, stigma disciform, fruit obovoid pericarp very thick. Muell. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 488 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 229 ; Beddome 

 forester's Man. 198. Astylis venusta, Wight Ic. t. 1922. Wall. Cat. 8007. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Canara to the Nilghiris and S. Tinnevelly, ascending 

 to 4000 ft., Heyne, Wight, Stocks, &c. 



A tree j branches rather stout. Leaves 3-5 in., very coriaceous, shining above, 

 quite entire, base acute or cuneate, coarsely reticulated beneath, nerves many and 

 slender; petiole in. Flowers $ in. diam. ; male pedicels 5 in., fern. 1-2^ in. Fruit 

 f-1 in., sometimes gibbous, at the top crowned with the pulvinate stigma ; pericarp 

 thick and hard when dry. Dalzell (in a letter) observes that the ovary is 1- or 2- 

 celled, that when 1-celled the stigma is an entire disk, and not unilateral, when 2- 

 celled the stigma is double; also that the 2 ovules in each cell are so closely packed 

 as to appear like one. 



7. H. elata, Beddome Fl. Sylvat.i. 279; glabrous, leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate, male flowers in few-fld. axillary fascicles, pedicels slender, sepals 

 oblong pubescent on both surfaces, stamens 8-12, ovary 1-celled, stigmas 

 sessile disciform, fruit long pedicelled pyriform pericarp very thick. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; in the Wynaad, Anamalay and Tinnevelly forests, alt. 

 3000 ft., Beddome. 



A large tree, 90-100 ft. Leaves 4-5 by 1^-2 in., quite entire, shining on both sur- 

 faces ; petiole 3~| in. Male ft. 4-5 in a cluster ; pedicels ^-1 in. ; flowers ^ in. diam. 

 Fern. fl. solitary, rather larger than the male ; pedicel elongating in fruit. Disk 

 annular. Fruit f-1 in. long. Beddome distinguishes this from H. venusta by 

 its being a very large tree with less coriaceous leaves. My specimens do not enable 

 me to distinguish it from that plant. 



8. H. Wigrhtii, Hook. f. ; nearly glabrous, leaves elliptic- or oblong- 

 lanceolate obtusely taper-pointed many-nerved and finely reticulate entire 

 or obscurely crenate, base acute unequal-sided, flowers axillary shortly pedi- 

 celled solitary or 2-3 together, sepals 4-7 oblong and pedicels fulvous- 

 tomentose, disk orbicular pubescent, stamens 6-10, fruit on a short stout 

 pedicel ovoid puberulous, pericarp thick, stigma reniform. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Nilghiri Hills, Wight. 



Habit of H. venusta, but the leaves are uniformly narrower, thinner, more finely 

 reticulate, and the pedicels are shorter than the fruit, which is f in. long and sub- 

 acute. 



17. CYCLOSTE1VION, Blumc. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire or crenulate, base often unequal- 

 sided. Flowers axillary, dioecious, apetalous, all racemed or clustered and 

 pedicelled. MALE FL. Sepals 4-6, broad, imbricate (buds globose). Stamens 

 few or many, inserted round a flattened or depressed disk ; filaments short 

 free ; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pistillode or minute. FEM. FL. Calyx 

 of the male. Disk annular or 0. Ovary 2-4-celled, styles elongate or 0, 

 stigmas dilated fleshy or connate into a peltate disk ; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Fruit subglobose or ovoid, indehiscent; pericarp thick, hardened, 2-celled. 

 Seeds solitary in the cells, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species 

 about 18, Tropical Indian, Malayan and African. 



