Aporosa.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE/E. (J. D, Hooker.) 353 



fewj pedicel -j^ in., glabrous. Ovary oblong, crowned with a stigma as broad as 

 itself, cells 2-ovuled. I have seen no ripe fruit. 



28. A. Griffith!!, Hook. f. ; glabrous, leaves oblong or obovate-oblong 

 acuminate base rounded or acute, male and fern, spikes clustered, bracts 

 tomentose, fern. fl. sessile, ovary ovoid glabrous, stigmas minute recurved. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4955). 



Branches rather stout, pale. Leaves 3-5 in., thickly coriaceous, shining on both 

 surfaces ; nerves 6-8 pairs, very slender j petiole in., stout. Spikes of both sexes 

 in., simple or racemose, rusty -tomentose. Ovary minute, style very short, 2-fid ; 

 stigmas smooth, grooved on the faces. Fruit unknown. The leaves are those of A. 

 Roxburghii and villosula, from which the tomentose bracts distinguish it. 



APOROSA sp. ? A species in Griffith's collection from his journey to Burma 

 resembles A. acuminata, and no other, but is too imperfect for description. 



22. DAPHNIPHYLLUM, Blumc. 



Small glabrous evergreen trees -with robust branches leafy at the tips. 

 "Leaves alternate, long-petioled, quite entire, penninerved, usually glaucous 

 beneath. Flowers in axillary racemes, dioecious, apetalous. MALE FL. 

 Sepals 3-8, small, or calyx 4-toothed or discoid. Stamens 5-18, filaments 

 short free or ; anthers large, erect, often apiculate ; cells parallel, dehiscing 

 laterally. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Calyx of the male. DisJc 0, or of 4-6 

 scales or glands. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled ; styles or stigmas short, dis- 

 tinct, thick, recurved, entire ; ovules 2 in each. cell. Drupe oblong, usually 

 1-seeded. Seed with a membranous testa, albumen thick fleshy; embryo 

 small, cotyledons narrow ovate or oblong. Species 11, Tropical Asiatic and 

 Malayan. 



1. D. majus, Muell. Ara. in Linncea xxxiv. 76, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. i. 2; leaves long-petioled elliptic acute or acuminate, flowers sub- 

 corymbose, stamens 8, anthers laterally compressed not apiculate. Kicinus 

 furfuraceus, Wall. Cat. 7805 (in part}. 



BURMA ; near Amherst, Waliich. 



Leaves 8-12 by 4-6 in., very glaucous beneath; petiole 3-6 in. Male corymbs 

 many-fld., flowers long-pedicelled. Sepals of male triangular-ovate, acute. Fern, 

 flower and fruit unknown. Very nearly allied to D. laurinum, but the male calyx is 

 deeply divided and the inflorescence corymbose. This being under Micinus furfuraceus 

 in Herb. Waliich is due to an accidental misplacement of tickets. 



2. D. laurinum, Saill. Gen. Euphorl.^^i. 21, f. 25-27; leaves 

 long-petioled linear-oblong or -lanceolate acuminate or acute, calyx of fern, 

 unequally 4-lobed or -toothed -persistent, stamens 7-10, anthers laterally 

 compressed not apiculate. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 4. Gyrandra 

 laurina, Wall. Cat. 8020. Goughia laurina, Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. 

 vi. (1854) 9. G. G-riffithiana, Wight Ic. v. p. 22. 



PERAK, Scortechini. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4915, 4916), Maingay 

 (Kew Distrib. 1419). SINGAPORE, Waliich. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 



A shrub ( Griffith) ; branches robust. Leaves 6-10 in.; base rounded or broadly 

 cordate, more rarely acute, glaucous or not beneath; petiole 2 5 in. Racemes 2- 3 in. 

 Calyx of male disciform ; lobes triangular, acute. Fruit - iu., subacute, smaller 

 in Singapore specimens. 



3. D. glaucescens, Blume Bijd. 1153; leaves elliptic- or oblong, 

 obovate tip rounded or obtuse rarely acute, flowers racemose, sepals of fern. 



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