Aporusa.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACBJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 351 



slender, petiole ^-1 in. Male spikes 1-1 in., rather stout; sepals 4; stamens 2. 

 Ovary slender, narrowed at both ends ; styles rather slender. Fruit \ in. long. 



21. A. aurea, HooJc.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves long-petioled coriaceous 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate obtusely acuminate, base acute or obtuse golden- 

 green or -yellow when dry, male spikes clustered, bracts glabrous, fern. fl. 

 sessile, ovary flask-shaped glabrous, styles long 2-fid fringed, fruit globose 

 glabrous, pericarp thick, cells glabrous within. A. microstachya, Kurz For. 

 FL ii. 363 (not of Mueller}. 



CHITTAGONG- and AVA to TENASSERIM, ascending to 4000 ft., Kurz. PEBAK, 

 Herb. Hort. Calcutt. MALACCA, Griffith (Keio Distrib. 4959). 



An evergreen tree, 20-30 ft. ; branches pale. Leaves 3-6 in., shining above, 

 paler beneath ; nerves 5-6 pair, very slender: petiole -1 in., rather slender. Male 

 spikes |-H i n - ; bracts membranous, glabrous; sepals rounded, glandular. Fruit 

 i in. diam., yellowish, crowned by the rather large thickly fringed stigmas, 2-valved 

 at the base, 2-celled, 2-seeded. Seeds orbicular, plano-convex, grooved on the ventral 

 fsice, as if formed of 2-connate seeds. The fine golden hue of the dried leaves is 

 characteristic of this specie?, which approaches A. Wallichii, and is well likened by 

 Kurz to the colour of a Symplocos. 1 have seen no fern, flowers, the characters of 

 which are taken from Kurz's description of his A. microstachya, which is certainly 

 this, and not that plant of Mueller ; nor have I seen any Tenasserim, Avan or 

 Chittagong specimens, and hence my identification of the Perak and Malaccan plant 

 with that of Kurz may be erroneous. 



22. A. lanceolata, Thwaites Enum. 288; glabrous, leaves lanceolate 

 or linear-lanceolate caudate-acuminate base acute, male bracts glabrous 

 ciliate, fem. fl. sessile, ovary glabrous, stigmas 2 very minute entire together 

 forming a 2-lobed disk, fruit small ovoid obtuse or subspherical. Muell. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 475 in part; Beddome Forester s Man. 199. 

 Lepidostachys lanceolata, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. 253. 



CEYLON; very common. 



A small evergreen tree, everywhere except the ciliate bracts glabrous. Leaves 

 3-4 in., membranous, caudate tip very long, green or yellowish when dry, base acute ; 

 nerves 5-6 pair, arched, cross-nervules reticulate; petiole $-$ in., slender. Male 

 spikes 35- in.; bracts, clawed; sepals 4-5; stamens 4. Fem. spikes very short. 

 Ovary ovoid. Fruit (from Thwaites' description) the size of a pen. Seeds with a 

 fleshy outer coat. Mueller describes the ovary as scabrid, the stamens as 2, and leaves 

 as sometime;; repand-denticulate, which makes me suspect that these characters are 

 taken from a Boruean plant which he refers to this species. The plant of Heifer's 

 referred here is A. Planchoniana (as is Kurz's A. lanceolata), the Malaccan (Griffith's 

 4959) is A. aurea. 1 have seen no ripe fruit of this. 



23. A. fusiformis, Thwaites Enum. 288 ; glabrous, leaves oblong or 

 obovate-oblong or orbicular acute obtuse or retuse rarely acuminate, base 

 cuneate or rounded, bracts glabrous ciliate, fem. fl. sessile, ovary glabrous, 

 stigma 2-3-partite short recurved, fruit fusiform glabrous, pericarp thin, 

 cells hairy within. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 471 ; Beddome 

 Forester's Man. 199. A. Thwaitesii, Baill. Ettedes Gen. Euplwrb. 645. 

 Lepidostachys grandifolia, Planch, mss. 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 5000 ft., Walker, Thwaites. 



A tree, branches stout. Leaves 4-8 in., very coriaceous, shining above, base 

 sometimes cordate; nerves 5-7 pair, slender; petiole ~ in., usually stout, but some- 

 times much lengthened. Male spikesl-1% in., very stout. Fem.fl. crowded. Fruit 

 -f in. long, beaked, base acute. Seed oblong, plano-convex. Mueller has over- 

 looked Thwaites' description of the ovary, and placed this species in a section in 

 which that organ is clothed. Thwaites says that it resembles A, latifolia generally, 

 differing in the form of the much less fleshy fruit. 



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