Aporosa.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIAOE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 347 



petiole stout, 2-4 in. Male catkins 1-2 in.; fern, very short, with smaller narrower 

 tomeutose bracts. Sepals of male narrowly spathulate, of fern, oblong. Stamens 2. 

 Ovary obovoid-oblong, rusty-tomentose. Fruit the size of a large pea, yellow, 2-celled, 

 2 -seeded. The fruit is described from Kurz ; the stigmas are uudescribed. 



5. A. nigricans, Hook. f. ; nearly glabrous except the tips of the 

 shoots, bark pale, leaves coriaceous oblong or elliptic-oblong acuminate base 

 obtuse rounded or cordate brown when dry above, beneath blackish olive- 

 green with a few hairs when young on the midrib, petiole ^ in. stout, fruit 

 globose I in. diam. nearly glabrous yellow black when dry, epicarp very 

 thick with 2 or 4 lines of dehiscence, stigmas 2 short depressed 2-partite, 

 septum hairy. 



PERA;K ; at Larut, King's Collector. 



A small tree, 20-30 ft. Leaves 6-12 in., nerves 8-10 pair, very strong beneath, 

 cross-nervules strong or slender. 



6. A. globifera, JIooTc.f.\ branches slender and petioles and midrib 

 above rusty-tomentose, leaves 3-4 in. thinly coriaceous elliptic-oblong or 

 -oblanceolate obtusely acuminate base acute or rounded laxly tornentose 

 beneath, nerves 6-8 pair very strong meeting in large loops, petiole 

 - in., fern. fl. sessile axillary, fruit globose pubescent, stigmas small 

 depressed 4-lobed ?, cells glabrous within. 



PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. 



A small tree, 20-30 ft., crown spreading. Leaves green when dry, pale beneath. 

 Fruit f- in. diam., yellow and red (red brown when dry), epicarp rather thick, endo- 

 carp thin. Seed orbicular, plano-convex. 



7. A. villosula, Kurz For. FL ii. 362 ; glabrous except the shoots 

 and spikes, leaves long-petioled oblong to obovate- oblong or -lanceolate 

 obtuse acute or subacuminate base obtuse or acute, fern. fl. sessile, ovary 

 globose densely villous, stigmas short shortly 2-fid., fruit globose or turgidly 

 ovoid hirsute or glabrate apiculate, pericarp thin, cells hairy within. 



PEGTJ to TENASSERIM and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Griffith, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 

 4951), &c. 



An evergreen tree, 25-30 ft. ; shoots appressed-pubescent, soon glabrous. Leaves 

 3-6 in., shining, membranous ; nerves 5-8 pairs, slender; petiole f-1^ in., thickened 

 at the tip. Fern, spikes with crowded 'glabrous ciliate bracts. Fruit sometimes ellip- 

 soid. Near A. Roxburghii, but the ovary is densely clothed, and the fruit globose. 



8. A. latifolia ? Thwaites Enum. 288 ; glabrous, leaves thickly coria- 

 ceous obovate or broadly elliptic obtuse base rounded or subcordate, bracts 

 ciliate, fern. fl. sessile, ovary hairy stigmas reflexed 2-fid, fruit large broadly 

 ovoid subacute glabrous, pericarp very thick fleshy, cells villous within, 

 stigmas depressed recurved 3-partite lobes 2-fid. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 470 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 199. Agyneia latit'olia, Moon Cat. 

 Ceyl. PL 65. 



. CEYLON ; south part of the island, Thwaites. 



A medium -sized tree ; branches stout. Leaves 5-6 by 3-4 in., shining above, 

 midrib stout ; nerves 5-8 pairs, slender ; petiole f 1 in., very stout. Fruit f-1 in . 

 long, pericarp as thick as the cavity, at length 4-valved at the base. I have seen no 

 flowers. 



Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid (see also A. villosula). 



9. A. Roxburg-hii, Baill. Etudes Gen. EupJiorl. 645 ; nearly gla- 

 brous except the inflorescence, leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate 



