356 cxxxv. EUPHORBIA CE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Antidesma. 



Fruiting racemes as long as the leaves, strict, as thick as a crow-quill ; fruits spread- 

 ing, pedicel ^ in. j calyx small, acutely 6-lobed, nearly glabrous ; disk glabrous, 



3. A. pendulum, HooJc.f.; glabrous, branches stout, leaves 10-14- in. 

 membranous oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate cuspidately acuminate or 

 caudate base acute, nerves 10-14 pairs very slender, petiole very stout, 

 spikes solitary simple very slender, fruiting pendulous equalling the leaves, 

 flowers of both sexes sessile, sepals 4-6 orbicular hairy, disk glabrous 5-lobed, 

 ovary gibbously decurved glabrous, stigmas very short, fruit ^ in. shortly 

 pedicelled broadly ovoid compressed rugose tip rounded stigmas terminal. 



PEEAE, Scortechini. 



A shrub, 6-12 ft. ; branches as thick as a swan's quill, bark whitish. Leaves 

 brown beneath when dry ; petiole ^-f in. Malefl. rather scattered ; stamens 5, stout ; 

 pistillode clavate, lobulate at the top. Fern. fi. -J^ in.; sepals very short; disk 

 glabrous. Fruiting racemes as long as the leaves; .pedicels slender, T \j in.; calyx 

 obtusely 6-lobed. Fruit with acute margins, quite glabrous. Closely allied to a 

 Bornean species (Beccari No. 1300), which has a glabrous shortly lobed fern, calyx, 

 and a few bristles on the fein. disk. 



4. A. KLingrii, HooJc.f.\ branchlets petioles nerves beneath and spikes 

 densely rusty-tomentose, leaves 10-12 in. subsessile oblong or broadly 

 obovate-oblong cuspidately acuminate base rounded or cordate, nerves 16-20 

 pair strong beneath, male spikes subpanicled, peduncle bracteate, flowers 

 sessile, fern, spikes short stout erect, flowers subsessile, ovary densely tomen- 

 tose, fruiting spikes very stout, fruit | in. subsessile falcately ovoid deeply 

 reticulate pubescent styles terminal. 



PEEAK ; at Goping and Larut, King's Collector. 



A stout shrub or small tree, 25 ft. ; branches very stout. Leaves rather coria- 

 ceous, 3-6 in. broad, more or less rusty -pubescent all over beneath ; nerves spreading, 

 close-set; petiole very stout, |- in. ; stipules -1 in., rigid, lanceolate. Male spikes 

 erect, 4-6 in., with lanceolate stipular bracts at the base of the common peduncle ; 

 floral bracts very minute ; sepals 5, free, hairy ; stamens 5, rather short ; disk tumid, 

 glabrous; pistillode short. Fern, spikes 4-6 in., erect in flower, decurved in fruit ; 

 bracts obscure ; sepals about 4, ovate, acute; disk with a few bristles. 



Series II. Leaves 2-10 in. long, rarely more. Fruit %-\ in. long. 



* Ovary tomentose or pubescent (sometimes glabrate in A. alatum & 

 leucocladon). 



5. A. velutinosum, Blume'Bijd. 1125; densely tomentose, leaves 

 5-8 in. oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, petiole very short, male fl. 

 sessile or very shortly pedicelled, bracts linear or lanceolate, calyx villous 

 5-8-partite, stamens 5-8, ovary obliquely globose tomentose, style sublateral 

 stigmas long recurved forked, fruit pedicelled obliquely globose i in. diam. 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 248; Kurz For. FL ii. 359 ; Miguel Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. ii. 428. A. tomentosum, Plume ex Miguel I. c. 427, t. 26. A. 

 attenuatum, Watt. Cat. 7286; Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 

 235. A. molle, Wall. Cat. 7287; Muell. Arg. I. c. Antidesmea, Wall. Cat. 

 8582, 8577 in part. 



PEGU to TENASSEEIM, and BUEMA, WallicJi, Griffith, Heifer (Keiv Distrib. 

 4946, 4947), &c. PENANG, Porter, Curtis. SINGAPORE, Hullett. DISTEIB. 

 Java. 



An evergreen tree, 25-30 ft. Leaves hardly coriaceous, variable in amount of 

 pubescence, base narrowed or obtuse, rarely cordate, nerves 10-15 pairs; petiole 

 %-\ in. ; stipules from ovate to linear-lanceolate. Spikes or racemes subsolitary, 



