358 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Antidesma. 



Youug branches and leaves densely rusty villou?. Leaves 3-4 in. broad, often 

 une<]ual at the rounded base, flat or bullate above ; nerves 8-10 pair, spreading ; 

 petiole in. or less ; stipules linear. Spikes 4-6 in., sometimes subpanicled, peduncle 

 bracteate ; rachis stout, densely tomeiitose. Calyx-lobes rounded, villous. Disk of 

 male glabrous. Pistillode subglobose. 



9. A. alatum, Hook. f. glabrous, branches white, tips puberulous, 

 leaves 3-5 in. shortly petioled elliptic-oblong or -oblanceolate abruptly cus- 

 pidate or subcaudate base acute, stipules large orbicular-ovate acute 

 persistent, spikes short, male fl. sessile, sepals 5 hirsute, disk pulvinate gla- 

 brous, stamens 5, fern. fl. subsessile, ovary pubescent or glabrate, disk very 

 large pulvinate glabrous, fruit in. shortly pedicelled turgidly ovoid shortly 

 beaked, stigmas subterminal minute conic. Antidesmea, Wall. Cat. 8583. 



PERAK ; Larut, alt. 1-3000 ft., King's Collector ; Waterfall Hill, Wray. Six- 

 GAPOEE, Wallich. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib., No. 4941). 



A small tree, shoots puberulous. Leaves thin or subcoriaceous, midrib glabrous or 

 puberulous beneath ; nerves 8-10 pairs, very faint; petiole -fe-% in. ; stipules ^-fc in., 

 coriaceous. Spikes -f in., males panicled ; flowers very minute, rachis puberulons ; 

 stamens short ; pistillode minute, sunk in the disk. Disk of fern. fl. often exceeding 

 the calyx in width. The remarkable stipules and very large fern, disk are conspicuous 

 characters. The stipules a good deal resemble those of the Sumatran A. neuro- 

 carpum, which has tomentose branches and strong nerves. 



10. A. leucocladon, HooJc. f. ; glabrous, branchlets slender white, 

 leaves 5-7 in. membranous oblanceolate or oblong caudate-acuminate base 

 acute or obtuse, petiole short, stipules filiform, male spikes pauicled very 

 slender tomentose, flowers sessile very minute, calyx 4-lobed, disk tomen- 

 tose, fern. fl. subsessile, ovary tomentose or glabrate, stigmas long recurved, 

 disk glabrous or ciliolate, fruit ^ in. very shortly pedicelled broadly gib- 

 bously ovoid compressed beaked, stigmas large. A. Bunius, Wall. Cat. 

 7282 A (the right-hand specimen). 



PENANG, Wallich. PEEAZ, ScortecUni'-, at Sunga Ryab, King's Collector. 



A small tree ; shoots puberulous. Leaves membranous, drying brown j midrib 

 glabrous or puberulous beneath; nerves 10-12 pairs, very slender ; petiole y 1 ^ in. 

 Male spikes seen only in Penang specimens ; bracts minute ; calyx obtusely lobed 

 below the middle; disk small, 4-lobed ; pistillode columnar. A very similar species in 

 fern, flower only, from Perak (Calcutta Herbarium, No. 3845), has longer female 

 peduncles and shorter stigmas. 



** Ovary glabrous (see also A. alatum &, leucocladon}. 



f Male flowers sessile or nearly so. Calyx not deeply lobed. 



11. A. Bunius, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 826; shoots tomentose, leaves 

 elliptic-oblong lanceolate obovate or oblanceolate glabrous shining above, 

 petiole short, spikes simple or panicled stout pubescent villous or tomentose, 



_ very short terminal. Muell. Arg. ... _ _. 



lttume Bijd. 1122 ; Presl EpimeL 234 ; Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. *S'< r. ;;, 

 xv. (1851) 186 ; Miguel FL Ind. Sat. i. ii. 423 ; Wight Ic. t. 819; Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 358 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 200, t. 24, f . 3 ; Wall. Cat. 7282 

 (except A and part o/B) Thwaites Enum. 289. A. Thwaitesianum, Muell. 

 Arg. 1. c. 263. A. glabrum & floribundum, Tulasne I. c. 188, 189. A. sylvestre, 

 LamJc. Diet. i. 207. A. ciliatum, Prcsl I. c. 235 Stilago Bunius, Linn. Mant. 



