Antidesma.~] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 357 



stout for the genus, peduncle brncteate ; lower flor.il bracts frequently exserted and 

 recurved. Sepals lanceolate, villous, very unequal. Disk of male minute, tumid, 

 lobed ; pistillode clavate, bairy; of fern, cupular, sligbtly bairy. Style distinct. 

 Wailicb's A. attcnuatum and A. molle are tbe two sexes of this species; his Penang 

 specimens (Porter's) are moro densely tomentose, beneath especially, than the 

 others. 



VAE. lancifolia leaves elliptic-lanceolai$ acuminate. Penang, Curtis. 



VAE. orthogyne ; ovary ellipsoid quite straight, stigmas terminal. Malacca, 

 Griffith- (Keiv Distrib. 4928). 



6. A. Helferi, Hooh.f. ; branches and leaves glabrous, leaves 4-7 in. 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong obtuse base acute nerves slender, fem. spike stout 

 pubescent, flowers sessile, bracts subulate, calyx 5-partite, ovary obliquely 

 globose tomentose, stigmas 2 stout 2-lobed or partite terminal. 



TEXASSEEIM (or Andaman Islands), Heifer (Keiv Distrib . 4942). 



Leaves coriaceous, perfectly glabrous on both surfaces; nerves 8-10 pair, arching; 

 petiole 4 in., very stout, and the linear stipules 'glabrous. Spike terminal, 1 in. ; 

 rachis stout. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse. Disk of fem. cupular, hairy. I have 

 sc-u only one specimen of this very distinct-looking species. The leaves may hence 

 In- found to vary a good deal from the above diagnosis. A Perak species (Herb. Cal- 

 culi., No. 4056) in fruit only may be the same; its spike is 2-3 in., rather stout, 

 quite simple, the fruit shortly pedicelled ^ in. long broadly ellipsoid turgid top 

 rounded with very minute subterminal stigmas. 



7. A. Ghaesembilla, Gartn. Fruct. i. 189, t. 39 ; tomentose or gla- 

 brous, leaves orbicular obovate or oblong obtuse, spikes panicled, flowers 

 so. -silo, catyx 5-7-partite, disk 5-partite pubescent, stamens 4-7, ovary 

 pubescent, fruit in. subglobose, stigmas terminal minute recurved. Jbfuell. 

 Arrj. in t>C. Proclr. xv. ii. 251 ; Tulasne in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 

 238 ; Brand. For. Fl. 446 ; Kurz For. Fl. 358 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 186 ; 

 D<f?z. $ Gils. Bomb. Fl. 236; Gamble Man. 2nd. Timb. 349; Beddome 

 Forester's Jl/cm. 200. A. paniculatum, IRoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 770 ; Sam. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 246; Wight Ic. t. 820; Dais. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 237 ; Tulasne I. c. 228 ; Wall. Gat. 7280. A. pubescens, Boxb. Cor. PI. 

 ii. 35, 1. 167, and Fl. Ind. iii. 770 ; Wight Ic. t. 821 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 186 ; 

 Dais. $ Gibs. 1. c. ; Wall. Cat. 8567 ; Blume Bijd. 1123 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. i. 426. A. acidum, Retz Obs. v. 30 (exllerb. Bottler}. A. sylvestre, 

 Lamk. Diet. i. 207 (ex Willd. mss. in Herb. Bottler}. Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 

 8580. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Bhotan and southward to CETLOX, SINGA- 

 PORE, PERAK and PENANG. DISTEIB. Malay Islands, China, Australia ?, Africa. 



A small tree ; branches, spikes, petioles, and often the leaves beneath rusty-tomen- 

 tose. Leaves 2-3 in., rarely more or less, base rounded or cordate, tip_jrounded, 

 rarely subacute or retuse, nerves 5-6 pairs; petiole ^-^ in. Spikes rather slender; 

 bracts minute ; male ft. clustered. Fruit subglobose (when fresh). 



8. A. ZRoxlmrg-hii, Wall. Cat. 7283 ; villously tomentose, leaves 

 6-10 in. subsessile obovate-oblong caudate-acuminate, spikes vpry long and 

 stout subsimple, bracts minute, flowers of both sexes sessile, calyx 3-4- 

 partite, stamens 3-4, fem. disk hairy, ovary straight tomentose, stigmas 

 very short terminal, fruit { in. long subsessile ovoid or ellipsoid subcorn- 

 pressed, stigmas minute sublatcral. Tulasne in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. 

 (1851) 234; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 261. Stilago tomcntosa, 

 Itoxb. FL Ind. iii. 757 ; Wight Ic. t. 767, 768. 



SILHET, Wallich. ASSAM, Griffith. 



