Antidesma.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 363 



ASSAM, Hamilton, &c. ; on the Dupbla Hills, Booth. KHASIA MTS., Wallich, &c., 

 Griffith (Keio Distrib. 4929) ; common at 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. Sf T. T. 



Branches with whitish bark; branchletp sparingly pubescent. Leaves very 

 variable, smaller 2-3 in. and elliptic, larger 5-7 in. and lanceolate or linear oblong, 

 greenish when dry, base acute; nerves arched, slender; petiole - in. ; stipules 

 narrow, lanceolate. Racemes much shorter and with shorter pedicels than in A. 

 acuminatum ; peduncle with lanceolate stipular bracts ; floral bracts ovate. Male fl. 

 glabrous. Disk sometimes exserted, and hardly lobed ; pistillode small. Fruit large, 

 tipped by the 2-3 rigid. bases of the stigmas. The glabrous midrib of the upper sur- 

 face of the leaf, short racemes and pedicels, and cupular shortly lobed calyx distin- 

 guish this from A. acuminatum, and the narrow leaves and not tomentose branches 

 and terminal stigmas from A. assamicum, of which it has the simple female racemes 

 and large oblique fruit. Can this be Mueller's A. oblongatum ? (see p. 365,) which he 

 describes from a specimen in the Berlin Herbarium as having the fruit ellipsoid obtuse 

 at both ends with a stigmatiferous notch half-way between the base and apex. 



fftf Malefl. pedicelled. Calyx 3-4-partite. 



23. A. acuminatum, Wall. mss. in Wight Ic. t. 1991; branchlets 

 finely pubescent, leaves 3-12 in. shortly petioled obovate-oblong or -elliptic 

 or lanceolate caudate or acuminate above shining with the midrib tomen- 

 tose, male racemes long and very slender in branched pubescent panicles, 

 flowers minute long-pedicelled, sepals 4 broadly ovate, stamens 3-4 inserted 

 between the lobes of the glabrous disk, ovary glabrous, fruit in large wide 

 spreading panicles ^ in. long ellipsoid acuminate with a distinct terminal 

 style. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 268; Beddome Forester's Man. 

 201. A. refractum and A. Meuasu (in part), Muell. Arg. I. c. 257. A. 

 simile, Muell. Arg. 1. c. 259. A. pubescens, Tul. ?, Herb. 2nd. Or. H.f. fy T. 

 A. Bunius, Wall. Cat. 7282 B (the right-hand specimen). A. zeyla.nicum 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 8572. ? A. Menasu, Gamble Man.Ind. Timb. Sot). A. 

 macrophyllum, Wall. mss. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, ascending to 2000ft., common, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4931), 

 &c. ASSAM, Masters. KHASIA. MTS., and SILHET, ascending to 4000 ft., Wallich, 

 &c. 



A large shrub. Leaves rather thin, often very large and 4 in. broad ; base acute 

 or rounded ; nerves 8-15 pair, very slender ; petiole |- in. ; stipules much longer, 

 linear or lanceolate. Racemes often several inches long, with wide spreading 

 branches ; bracts lanceolate ; pedicels many times longer than the calyx. Disk 

 variable, usually lobed, but sometimes hemispheric ; pistillode columnar or short and 

 2-3 lobed, or developed into an imperfect ovary. Fruit tipped with a very short slender 

 style and minute stigmas. Habit and foliage of A. Menasu, and possibly not speci- 

 fically different, bub the racemes are much more slender, the branches not so tomeu- 

 tose, and the pedicels much longer. The fruit is similar but smaller, with a more 

 distinct style. I have restored Wallich's name as authority for this, a specimen in the 

 Kew Herbarium from the Calcutta Garden being labelled acuminatum. Wight's figure 

 is taken from cultivated specimens in which the flowers appear to be occasionally 

 hermaphrodite. A Sikkim fruiting specimen of this or an allied species from Clarke 

 has densely tomeutose branches and racemes. 



24. A. martabanicum, Presl Epimel. 232 ; branches petioles nerves 

 of leaves beneath and panicles tomentose, leaves 4-11 in. shortly petioled 

 linear-oblong acuminate, stipules large oblong-lanceolate, racemes panicled, 

 male fl. pedicelled, calyx 3-4- partite, stamens 3-4, disk glabrous, ovary 

 glabrous, fruiting racemes in open panicles, fruit | in. long globose or 

 ellipsoid top rounded, stigmas minute sessile terminal. Muell. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 261 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 358. A . oblongifolium, var. Walliclm, 

 Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 221 ; Muell. Arg. I. c. 264. A. 



