346 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aporosa. 



and fern. ft. transposed), and Veg. Kingd. 283, with woodcut. Lepidostachys 

 ? villosa,'T7a/J. Caff. 7298. 



PEGU and TENASSEEIM, in open forests, Wallich, M'Lelland, Heifer (Kew 

 Distrib. 4953, 4954). DISTEIB. Cochin China. 



A deciduous-leaved tree, 20-30 ft. ; branchlets stout. Leaves 4-10 in., coriaceous, 

 glabrous above except the nerves, base subcordate, rounded or acute ; petiole ^-f in., 

 stout. Male spikes clustered, -f in long; fern, subsolitary sessile, very short, oblong ; 

 bracts concave, ciliate. Sepals of male 3-5, oblanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. 

 Stamens 25, exserted. Ovary rusty villous. Fruit size of a large pea, orange- 

 coloured, usually 1-celled and 1-seeded. The description of the fruit is from Kurz. 



2. A. ficifolia, Baill. Adans. xi. 177; branches stout and leaves 

 beneath rusty villous, leaves 6-9 by 3-4 in. thickly coriaceous elliptic or 

 oblong acute or acuminate obscurely sinuate-toothed pale when dry, fern. fl. 

 sessile, stigmas depressed broad 2-partite plumose, fruit globose, pericarp 

 not very thick, cells glabrous within. Wall. Cat. 8017. 



PENANG, Wallich, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1498). PEEAK, King's Collector. 

 DISTEIB. Cambogia. 



Branches as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves rather rugose above, hardly shining, 

 midrib above tomentose ; nerves 10-12 pair, strong beneath with reticulating nervules ; 

 petiole |-| in., stout. Ovary globose, villous ; stigmas 4, very large and broad, 2- 

 partite. Fruit globose, f 1 in. diam., 2-celled, crowned with the radiating sessile 

 stigmatic lobes. Seeds suborbicular, plano-convex. 



3. A. microcalyx, Hassle, in Bull. Bot. Soc. France vi. (1859) 714 ; 

 branchlets pubescent or tomentose, leaves coriaceous 3-6 in. elliptic ovate or 

 oblong obtuse or obtusely acuminate base acute or cuneate entire or sinuate- 

 toothed glabrous or pubescent beneath, nerves 6-8 pairs strong arched and 

 meeting in large loops, fern, flowers sessile on very short spikes, ovary hirsute, 

 stigmas short recurved 2-partite, fruit ellipsoid or broadly fusiform pubes- 

 cent, top rounded base contracted, cells sparsely hairy within. A. micro- 

 calyx, a. genuina, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 471. A. aurita, Miquel 

 FL Ind. Bat. i. ii. 431 (excl. syn. TuL). A. Cumingiana, Baill, Rev. Gen. 

 Fuplwrb. 645. Leiocarpus serratus, Hassle,. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 196. Tetrac- 

 tinostigma microcalyx, Hassle. Cat. Hort. Bogor. Ed. nov. 55 ; Miquel I. c. 

 362. 



PEEAK ; at Goping, King's Collector. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4958) 

 and Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1417). DISTEIB. Malay Islands, China. 



A small tree. Leaves rather shining on both surfaces, yellow when dry ; petiole 

 - in., often pubescent and minutely stipellate at the top. Male sepals 3-4, very 

 irregular, glabrous. Stamens 1 or more. Fruit g - in. long ; pericarp rather thin. 



ft Leaves glabrous or nearly so (see also 3. -A. microcalyx). Female 

 flowers sessile. 



Fruit globose or nearly so (sometimes ovoid in A. villosula). 



4. A. macrophylla, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 470; quite 

 glabrous except the spikes, leaves very large long-petioled ovate or ovate- 

 oblong base deeply cordate, bracts of male and fern. fl. very broad glabrous 

 ciliate, fern. fl. sessile, ovary villous, fruit subglobose velvety. Kurz For. 

 FL ii. 361. Lepidostachys macrophylla, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, 

 xv. (1851) 253. 



BUBMA, Wallich. PEGU to TENASSERIM, Kurz, M'Lelland. 

 A deciduous-leaved tree, 20-25 ft. ; branches very stout. Leaves 1-2 by ^-1 ft., 

 thinly coriaceous, obtuse or subacute, with vesicular dots beneath ; nerves 10-12 pair j 



