Aporosa.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 349 



within. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 473; Beddome Forester's Man. 

 199. 



TINNEVELLY, Beddome. CEYLON ; alt. 2-3000 ft., Thwaites. 



A small sparingly-branched tree, branches very slender and all parts but the bracts 

 quite glabrous. Leaves H-5 in., membranous, pale when dry, tip obtuse or acute, 

 base tapering into the slender petiole i- in. long-, margin obscurely undulate ; nerves 

 6-7 pair, arched, cross-nervules loosely reticulate. Male spikes ^'in.'; bracts ciliate; 

 sepals 3 ; stamens 2. Fern, spikes usually 1-fld. Ovary 3-celled, silkily hairy, and 

 fruit f in. long, usually 3-seeded. In Beddome's specimens the pericarp is much thinner 

 than in the Ceylon ones. 



14. A. microstachya, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 474 ; branches 

 slender, shoots and young petioles pubescent, leaves shortly petioled ovate 

 or lanceolate obtusely caudate-acuminate base acute, fern. fl. sessile sub- 

 capitate, ovary densely rusty- villous, stigmas short broad plumose, fruit very 

 small globosely ovoid glabrous, pericarp very thin, cells glabrous. A. Tulas- 

 neana, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 645. Scepa microstachya, Tulasne in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 255. ? S. stipulacea, Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot. 

 Ed. 2, 441. Lepidostachys Griffithiana, blanch, mss. Wall. Cat. 7985. 



BURMA ; at Amherst, Wallich. TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. 



Branches smooth, black when dry. Leaves 5-7 in., membranous, dull green when 

 dry ; margin entire or subrepand ; nerves 8-10 pairs slender, nervules very faint ; 

 petiole |- in. Fern, spikes in small clusters. Fruit -J in. long, smooth. Closely 

 allied to A. Maingayi, but the leaves are much broader and longer, nerves fewer and 

 fainter, and the fruit is black when dry and much smaller. Kurz's A. microstachys is 

 A. aunea, having a glabrous ovary. 



15. A. glabrifolia, Kurz in Trimens Journ. Bot. N. S. iv. (1873) 330 ; 

 branches very robust, shoots tomentose, leaves 3-5 in. coriaceous elliptic- 

 ovate obtuse or subacute base acute smooth above sparsely hairy beneath 

 and with minute hairy tufts at the base on each side, nerves 7-8 pairs, 

 petiole J in., fern. fl. sessile, fruit f in. long ellipsoid subacute finely pubes- 

 cent 4-valved at the base, stigmas 2 short stout recurved, pericarp thin, 

 septum hairy. 



NICOBAB, ISLANDS ; Kamorta, common in dry grassy places, Kurz. 



Kurz (possibly by misprint) gives the size of the fruit as 1| in. The only speci- 

 men of this which I have seen has stout woody branches, from which it appears as if 

 the babit of the plant was scraggy, with short leafing shoots. Leaves greenish and 

 reticulate above, glabrous and pale brown beneath; petiole f in., pubescent. 



tft Leaves glabrous or nearly so. Fem.fl. pedicelled. 



16. A. Xiindleyana, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 645; glabrous, 

 leaves oblong ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, base acute rounded or sub- 

 cordate, stipules large hairy, bracts glabrous ciliate, fern. fl. shortlv pedi- 

 celled, ovary silky-pubescent, stigmas short 2-3-partite arms hardly plumose, 

 fruit pedicelled globose cuspidate or very broadly ellipsoid, pericarp thin, 

 septum villous. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 473; Thicaites Enum. 

 288; Beddome Flor. Sylva't. t. 286. A. affinis, Baill. I. c. A. sphrero- 

 carpa, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlvii. (1864) 529, and in DC. 1. c. Scepa 

 Lindleyana, Wight Ic. t. 361 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 236. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, abundant. 



A much-branched evergreen tree. Leaves 4-6 in., thin or coriaceous, smooth 

 above ; nerves 8-10 pairs; petiole \-% in., rather stout. Male spikes 1 in. or less, 

 rather stout; sepals 4-6, ciliate; stamens 2-3. Ovary fusiform, distinctly pedicelled, 



