352 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aporosa. 



Series II. Stipules large, persistent, lunate or falcate. 



24. A. lunata, Benth. in G-cn. Plant, iii. 282; branches robust pubes- 

 cent, leaves 8-12 in. linear-oblong base cordate shining above with deeply 

 impressed nerves, tomentose beneath especially on the midrib and very 

 strong nerves, stipules large lunate, fern, spikes densely tomentose, stigmas 

 3-4 very stout 2-fid. Antidesmalunatum, MiquelFl. Ind. Sat. Suppl. 467; 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 251. P A. coriaceum, Blume, ex HassJcarl 

 in Herb. 



PENANG, (Ic. in Serb. Keiv.) PEEAK ; on low bills, King's Collector. DISTEIB. 

 Sumatra, ? Java. 



A tree, 50 ft. Leaves 3 in. broad, very coriaceous; petiole -3 in., very stout ; 

 stipules -3 in. long. Fern, spikes short ; flowers sessile ; sepals 5-6, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, tomentose. The Perak specimens are imperfect, and in fern. fl. only. It may 

 not be Miquel's plant, which is described as having leaves with a few marginal glands 

 near the base and subentire stigmas. A closely allied Bornean species (Beccari No. 

 1213) has shorter broader tomentose styles; its fruit is ovoid, f in. long, 3-cellcd 

 with 3 apical beaks. Bentham no doubt rightly refers Miquel's Antidesma lunatum 

 to Aporosa, but is mistaken in uniting with it Maingay's plant, which is the following. 

 In a drawing of this species (in Kew Library) the fruit is represented as of the size 

 of a small pea, globose, yellow and red, and the styles as long and rounded. 



25. A. Benthamiana, HooJc.f. in Ic. Plant. 1. 1583 ; quite glabrous, 

 leaves 8-18 by 3-5 in. subsessile linear-oblong acuminate or caudate base 

 narrowed cordate, stipules large lunate, fruiting spikes 1 in. long, fruit 

 ellipsoid 3-celled, cells glabrous within. 



? SINGAPORE, Cantley. 



Branches stout. "Leaves coriaceous ; nerves 12-16 pairs, very strong beneath ; 

 petiole \-\ in., stout ; stipules coriaceous. Male spilces cylindric, obtuse ; rachis 

 very stout; sepals 4, ovate; stamens 2, anther-cells pendulous. Fruit |-f in. long. 

 Very different from A. lunatum, being perfectly glabrous, and in the much shorter 

 petioles. The anthers are nearly as in Antidesma. The Singapore plant has longer 

 petioles and more membranous leaves broader upwards. 



26. A. falcifera. Hook. f. ; branchlets petioles and stipules tomen- 

 tose, leaves coriaceous elliptic- or linear-oblong acuminate sparsely hairy 

 beneath, base rounded or subcordate, nerves 7-9 pair strong, stipules per- 

 sistent sickle-shaped coriaceous, male spikes TJ f in. sessile clustered. 



PEEAK, King's Collector. 



A tree, 40-60 ft. Leaves 3-5 by l^-lf in., above almost shining reticulate and 

 with the nerves distinct, beneath brownish, cross-nervules slender ; petiole - in., 

 stout ; stipules about as long, margins recurved. 



SPECIES 0? WHICH THE FttUIT IS UNKNOWN. 



27. A. stellifera, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves 8-10 in. thinly 

 coriaceous oblong cuspidately acuminate base rounded or acute smooth 

 above with raised midrib, nerves 10-13 pairs arched, cross-nervules reticu- 

 late, petiole |-f in., male spikes slender sessile and peduncled, fem. spikes 



flabrous, flowers pedicelled, ovary glabrous 3-celled, stigmas connate in a 

 -rayed disk. 



PENA.NG, alt. 1500-1800 ft., and PEEAE, at Larut, King's Collector. 



A tree 10-15 ft. in Penang, 25-30 in Pernk ; branchlets very smooth with largo 

 stipular scars. Leaves 3-4 in. diam., sometimes polished above. Malejl. pubescent; 

 sepals 4; stamens 2, short. Racltis of fem. spikes ^V^ ^ n< l D g> few-fld. ; bracts 



