362 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Antidesma. 



times only in. broad. The only male Ceylon specimen of diandrutn that I have seen 

 is uniformly triaudrous. Walker's specimens of this in Herb. Hook, are accompanied 

 with detached fruits of a much larger size than those- of A. diandrum, and which I 

 suspect belong to A. Alexiteria. 



20. A. pyrifolium, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 68, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 265 ; nearly glabrous, leaves 2-4 in. long-petioled elliptic- 

 oblong or -lanceolate caudate-acuminate shining above base acute, racemes 

 slender simple or branched puberulous, male fl. shortly pedicelled scattered, 

 bracts short broad, calyx cup-shaped 4-5-lobed, stamens 3-5 seated on the 

 tumid glabrous disk, fruit subspherical, stigmas minute terminal. JBeddome 

 forester's Man. 200. A. montanum, TJncaites Enum. 288. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3-6000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Habit of A. Alexiteria, but larger, and at once distinguishable by the longer 

 rather slender petioles, \-\ in. long, and larger fruit. The flowers are always pedicelled 

 enough to place it in this group. The tumid disk of the male fl. often rises high 

 above the calyx, and the pistillode is minute and glabrous. 



21. A. RXoritzii, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 67, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 252 ; branchlets petioles midrib above and spikes finely 

 tomentose, leaves 5-10 ia. oblong elliptic- or obovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 base acute or rounded, spikes very slender panicled glabrous, male fl. 

 minute pedicelled, calyx 4-5-lobed, stamens 4-5, disk pubescent, fern. fl. 

 pedicelled, ovary glabrous, fruit | in. pedicelled subglobose acute, stigmas 

 very short terminal. A. pubescens, Moritzi in Zoll. Verzeiclm. 73 ; Miqttel 

 Fl. Ind. Sat. i. ii. 426, not of Roxb. A. pubescens, var. Moritzii, Tulasnein 

 Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 215. A. minus, Slume?, Wall. Cat. 7288. 

 A. leptocladum, /3. genuinum, Muell. Arg. I. c. 253. A. leptocladum, Tulasne 

 1. c. 199. A. Alexiteria, Presl JSpimel. 234 (not of Gcertn.}. 



TENASSERIM; at Mergui, Griffith and Heifer (Kew Distrib. 4926). 

 Porter. PEBAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. MALACCA, Griffith (Ifeiv Distrib. 

 4935). DISTBJB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippine Islands. 



A tree, 12-20 ft., bark of branches grey, lenticellate. Leaves very variable, usually 

 broadest above the middle, largest 8 by 4 in., smaller 5 by 2 in., membranous, pale gi'een, 

 beneath rather shining and glabrous or faintly pubescent on the 8-10 pairs of raised 

 nerves; petiole - in. ; stipules small, subulate or lanceolate. Male spikes 3-6 in., 

 forming effuse panicles; rachis very slender; flowers nearly glabrous, scattered; 

 bracts very minute; pistillode globose. Fern, racemes fewer, shorter; fruiting very 

 slender; pedicels T V-i in. Fruiting panicles widely spreading. I am very much 

 puzzled with this plant, which is, I suspect, one of the commonest Malayan Antidesmas, 

 and is variously named in Herbaria. Tulasne and Mueller reler Wallich's " 7288 A " 

 (there is no A in Herb. Wallich) to A. coriaceum, which from the description and the 

 other number cited, 8584 (misprinted 8548), is A. fallax. In habit, foliage, and small 

 fruit A. Moritzii resembles A. cuspidatum, from which its short petioles at once dis- 

 tinguish it, and A. oblongi folium, which differs in the tomentose panicle, and acu- 

 tninatum, which has longer pedicelled male fl. and the midrib tomentose above, and A. 

 Mcnasu, which has much larger flowers, a deeply lobed calyx and acute fern. 

 sepals. 



22. A. khasianum, Hook. . nearly glabrous, leaves subsessile 

 3-6 in. from elliptic lanceolate to narrowly oblong-lanceolate acuminate or 

 caudate midrib above glabrous, male racemes short slender solitary or 

 panicled, male fl. pedicelled, calyx cupular shortly 3-4-lobed, stamens 2-4 

 inserted on the tumid glabrous entire or lobed disk, ovary glabrous, fruit 

 % in. long gibbously orbicular or elliptic acute, stigmas terminal or sub- 

 terminal. A. lanceolatum, Herb. H. f. Sc T. Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 

 8570 ? B and 8573. 



