364 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Antidesma. 



Menasu, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 360 (not of MiqueT). A. oblongum, Wall. mss. 

 Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 8578. 



PEGU to TENASSERTM, and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, WallicJi, Griffith, Jldfer 

 (Kcw Distrib. 4947). DISTRIB. Java ? 



Branches velvety-toinentose. Leaves thin, glabrous above except the midrib, 

 beneath between the 10-16 pair of pubescent nerves glabrous or puberulous ; petiole 

 stout, - in. ; stipules on young shoots - in. from subulate to broadly oblong or 

 ovate, acuminate. JHfale sepals rounded. Pistillode short, columnar, glabrous. 

 Fruiting pedicels % in. or shorter. Wallich's No. 1982 cited by Tulasne is not 

 that of his Catalogue, but an MSS. one on a ticket inscribed A. oblongum. I have no 

 doubt as to this being Kurz's A. Menasu, from which martabanicum differs in the 

 tomentose branches and panicle, &c. 



25. A. Menasu, Miquel Plant. Exsicc. Holienack., No. 104; branch- 

 lets and petioles tomentose or pubescent, leaves 4-6 in. glabrous shortly 

 petioled elliptic oblong or lanceolate acuminate or caudate shining beneath, 

 spikes or racemes pubescent solitary or sparingly panicled, male and fern, 

 fl. sessile or very shortly pedicelled, calyx 3-4-partite, stamens 3-4 inserted 

 between the lobes of the small glabrous disk, ovary glabrous, fruit - in. 

 long ovoid or ellipsoid acute, stigmas short terminal. Muell. Arg. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 257 (the Canara plant only). A. Bunius, Miquel I. c. 

 No. 459 a, and Wall. Cat. 7282 F. A. pubescens, Eoxb., /3. Menasu, Tuslasne 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1852) 215. A. lanceolatum, Dais. Sf Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 237. A. pubescens, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. (from Madras). 

 ? A. Alexiteria, Gartn. Fruct. i. 188, t. 39. ? A. acidum, Metz Obs. v. 30. 

 Antidesma, Wall. Cat. 8571. 



DECCA.N PENINSULA, from the Concan and Circars southwards, Heyne, &c., 

 Wight $Kew Distrib. 2654) . 



Habit of A. Moritzii, and very like it in foliage. Leaves sometimes narrow and 

 8 by 3 in., base rounded or acute; midrib sometimes fpuberulous beneath; nerves 

 6-10 pairs, arched; petiole - in., glabrous or puberulous; stipules lanceolate. 

 Spikes or racemes usually long ; bracts very small, acute ; flowers larger than in 

 A. Moritzii, rachis much stouter. Calyx-lobes rounded, of the fern, often very acute. 

 Pistillode columnar, glabrous. Disk of female sometimes bearing staminodes. The 

 common plant of the Deccan Peninsula. The Khasian and Sikkim plant brought 

 under this by Mueller is A. acuminatum, differing in the more glabrous branches, 

 and very slender racemes with longer pedicels. Probably A. acidum, Retz, belongs to 

 this; it is a plant of Kcenig's described as having obovate leaves, solitary spikes, and 

 a 5-toothed calyx. A. Menasu is no doubt the species alluded to by Wight under 

 A. acuminatum as occurring in Malabar, and may be a form of that plant. What 

 Gartner's A. Alexiteria is cannot be determined from his figure or description, and he 

 gives no locality for it ; the fruit exactly accords with this species. 



Var. linearifolia ; leaves 3-5 by i-1^ in. linear-oblong shining on both surfaces. 

 Canara, Dalzell, Talbot. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



26. A. andamanicum, Hook. f. ; branches woody glabrous, leaves 

 3-5 in. quite glabrous membranous shortly petioled cuspidately acuminate 

 base acute, petiole slender, male spikes solitary very slender pubescent, 

 male fl. quite sessile, sepals 4 rounded hirsute on both surfaces, stamens 3, 

 disk villous, pistillode clavate 3-fid. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. 



Apparently a scraggy shrub much branched. Leaves uniformly brown on both 

 surfaces when dry, very thin, nerves 6-8 pair extremely slender ; petiole T ^ in., glabrous. 



