360 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Antidrsma. 



Tulame in Ann. Sc. Nat. Scr. 3, xv. (1851) 204 Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 

 8584, 9101. 



Porter, &c. MALACCA, Maingay. PERAK, Wray, King's Collector. 

 SINGAPORE, at Johore, Cantley. 



A tree?, 30-70 ft. in Pcrak ; branches pale, tips alone rusty-pubescent. Lain-* 

 rarely ovate, base acute or rounded, nerves 8-10 pair ; petiole -f in., quite glabrous 

 in age. Spikes 1-2$ in., bracts minute, oblong. Sepals rounded or oblong, villous. 

 Filaments rather short. Pistillode clavate. Ovary and Disk glabrous or very 

 minutely puberulous ; stigmas very short, thick, suberect. Fruiting racemes stout. 

 Very near A. Bunius, if not a form of it. Under A. M'oritzii 1 have indicated 

 Mueller's erroneous citations of Wallich's numbers cited under his A. coriaceum. 



15. A. nigricans, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 224 ; 

 branches petioles and spikes densely tomentose, leaves shortly petioled 

 4-7 in. elliptic oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate glabrous except on the 

 midrib above and beneath, spikes or racemes short simple or panicled, 

 flowers sessile or shortly pedicelled, calyx 4-partite, stamens 4 inserted on 

 the large hemispheric glabrous disk, ovary glabrous on a large glabrous 

 disk, stigmas rather long recurved terminal. Muell. Arg. in IDC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 258. A. flexuosum, Tulasne 1. c. ; Muell. Arg. I. c. 263. A. Bunius, 

 Wall. Cat. 7282 A (the upper specimen}. Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 8575. 



ASSAM, Jenkins. SILHET, Wallich, J. D.H. $ T. T. 



Leaves greyish brown when dry, sometimes caudate-acuminate, base acute or 

 obtuse ; nerves 6-12 pair, strong beneath and forming strong intni-marginal arches ; 

 petiole f- in., shorter than the stipules. Bracts minute. Sepals glabrous or 

 sparsely villous, broadly ovate, spreading. Stamens inserted on the rounded sides of 

 the disk. Pistillode conical, glabrous, but sometimes large and 2-fid like a minute 

 ovary. Tulasne's A. nigricans and flexuosum are the same, and Wallich's HO. 8575 

 is quoted for both ; the large hemispheric male disk is very characteristic. My own 

 Silhet specimens have longer leaves than Wallich's; Mueller refers Willdcnovv's 

 A. Alexiteria to this. See No. 27, p. 365. 



16. A. cuspidatuzn, Mucll. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 67, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 252 ; shoots petioles and spikes finely pubescent, leaves long- 

 petioled 5-7 in. oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate glabrous shining on 

 both surfaces, petiole $-% in., spikes racemose, male fl. sessile, bracts as long 

 as the flowers, calyx 4-5-partite, disk pubescent, stamens 3, fern, fl, sub- 

 sessile, disk villous, ovary glabrous, stigmas conical erect, fruit i in. obliquely 

 orbicular compressed, stigmas minute sublateral. ? A. rotatum, Muell. in 

 DC. I. c.256. 



MALACCA ; at Ching, OrijfitJi (A. pubescens, Ketv Distrib., No. 4823), Maingay 

 (Kew Distrib., No. 1341). SIXGAPOEE, Cantlev, King's Collector. ? TENASSEBIM, 

 Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4927), Heifer. 



A tree, branches glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, dark above when dry ; base 

 rounded or acute ; nerves 8-10 pairs, prominent beneath, arched; stipules ovate-Lm- 

 ceolate, caducous*' Spikes slender, 1^3 in., with stipular bracts at their base and on 

 the pedicels, bracts narrow. Sepals villous, of males rounded, of fern, ovate acute. 

 Disk of male lobed, pistillode subglobose, of fern, cupular. Fruiting racemes \ cry 

 slender, pedicels -J in. , slender. The long petioles and villous fern, disk are good 

 characters for separating this species from its allies. From Mueller's description and 

 locality of A. rotatum, I think his plant must be conspecific with A. cuspidatum. 

 There are in the Calcutta Herbarium from Perak (Scortechini and King's Collector, 

 Nos. 2314 and 3464) male specimens of a species precisely resembling this in habit, 

 long petiole, leaves and panicled spikes, but the flowers are smaller and the disk 

 glabrous. 



17. A. fruticulosum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 359; branchlets leaves 



