Antidesma.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 361 



beneath and spikes villously tomentose, leaves 1-1| in. subsessile obovate- 

 oblong or -lanceolate obtuse acuminate or obtusely mucronate. spikes short 

 solitary or panicled, male fl. sessile, sepals 4 rounded subacute tomentose, 

 stamens 2-3 inserted at the base of the hemispheric glabrous disk, ovary 

 glabrous, fruit ^- in. long, obliquely ovoid, stigmas terminal simple. 



PEGU; in the sandy soil of tidal forests near the station, Kurz. 



A small branched shrub, 2-4 ft. Leaves small, yellow brown when dry, some- 

 times retuse ; base acute ; petiole -^ in. ; stipules subulate. Flowers minute ; bracts 

 minute, ovate-lanceolate. Pistillode globose, glabrous. I have seen only young 

 specimens with male flower. 



18. A. velutinum, Tulasne in Ann. Be. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 223 

 (in part) ; branches very short petioles leaves beneath and spikes tomen- 

 tose, leaves 3-5 in. elliptic oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, spikes 

 solitary or panicled, male fl. sessile, sepals 3-4 orbicular villous, stamens 

 o-4 inserted within the glabrous lobed disk, ovary glabrous, stigmas short 

 terminal. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 258; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 359. 

 Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 8577 in part. 



PEGU, TENASSEEIM and BUEMA, Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4927), Heifer 

 (Kew Distrib. 6945), &c. 



An evergreen tree, 25-30 ft. Leaves more or less pubescent on both surfaces or 

 glabrous above, dark brown when dry ; stipules lanceolate. Disk of male sometimes 

 stipitate ; pistillode columnar, hairy. Very young fruits, which are shortly pedicelled, 

 only seen. Tulasne's A. velutinum is a mixture of this and velutinosum, which 

 occur on the same sheet of Wallich/s herbarium. The character which Kurz gives of 

 ovary pubescent is, I think, an error. The number of Wallich 1701, cited by Tulasne, 

 is not that of Wallich's Catalogue, where 1701 is a Polygonum. 



fft Male flowers pedicelled. Calyx Z-k-lobed above the middle or 

 toothed. 



19. A. diandrum, Both Nov. Sp. 369 ; glabrous or the shoots pubes- 

 cent, leaves obovate-oblong -elliptic or -lanceolate very shortly petioled not 

 polished, racemes very slender usually branched quite glabrous, flowers all 

 pedicelled, calyx spreading obtusely 4-lobed or -toothed, stamens 2 rarely 3 

 at the base of the small glabrous lobed disk, fruit ~ in. long ovoid acute, 

 stigmas minute terminal. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 266 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 447 ; Kurz For. FL 360; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 350 ; Dalz. # 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 237 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 200. A. sylvestre, Wall. 

 Cat. 7281. A. lanceolarium, Wall. Cat. 7284 ; Wight Ic. t. 766 ; Thwaites 

 JEnum. 289. A. lanceolatum, a. Walkeri, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, 

 xv. (1851) 195 ; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 266 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 201. A. 

 Wallichianum, Prcsl EpimeL 235. A. parviflorum, Herb. Ham. Stilago 

 diandra, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. t. 166, and FL Ind. iii. 759. S. lanceolaria, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 760. Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 7285, 8579. 



TEOPICAL HIMALAYA, from Garwhal eastwards, and southwards to TEAVAXCORE 

 and TENASSEEIM. CEYLON, ascending to 1500 ft. 



A bush or small tree, shoots glabrous or rusty-pubescent. Leaves very variable, 

 obtuse acute or acuminate, the longest 5 by 1 in., the largest 5 by 2 in., the smallest 

 1 by f in., thin in texture, rarely slightly pubescent beneath, yellowish green when 

 dry, base always acute, nerves faint ; petiole T \j-g in. ; stipules slender. Racemes 

 always quite glabrous ; bracts short, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, lowest often the longest. 

 Flowers minute, a few here and there sessile. Disk lobed and quite glabrous 

 (described as appressed pubescent by authors). The varieties proposed by Tulasne and 

 retained by Mueller (orata, genuina, lanceolata and parvifolia) are untenable with 

 any approach to definiteness. Thwaites mentions a Cingalese form with leaves at 



