AntidesmaJ] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 365 



Male spikes 3-4 in.; flowers minute, scattered. This resembles no other Indian 

 species. t 



27. A. mgricans ? (p. 360) ; branches densely toinentose, leaves 

 4-6 in. shortly petioled oblong obovate-oblong or -lanceolate or narrowly 

 linear oblong abruptly acuminate or caudate midrib above pnbescent, male 

 fl. pedicelled, calyx 4-partite, disk glabrous tnmid, fem. racemes terminal 

 and axillary subsimple short stout, rachis pubescent, calyx deeply 4-lobed, 

 fruit large gibbously suborbicular turgid top rounded, stigma sublateral. 

 A. nigricans, in part, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T. 



ASSAM, Masters, Herb. Griffith (Kew Distrib., Nos. 4930, 4937, 4943). SILHET 

 and KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-3000 ft., 7. D. H. cf T. T. CACIIAB, at Shapore, Keenan. 



A shrub. Leaves most variable, thin, the extreme forms are 3-4 by 1^-2 in., 

 broadly obovate-oblong, abruptly obtusely acuminate, and 6-8 by 1-1 1 in., with finely 

 cordate tips, narrowly linear oblong (I have gathered both in Khasia) ; nerves 8-10 

 pair, very slender; petiole T \,-tj in., touieutose ; stipules not seen. Fruiting racemes 

 1-1^ in. long. Fruit about i u - diam. This has the large oblique fruit of A. 

 khasianum, from which it differs in the toinentose branches, foliage, and midrib 

 tomentose above ; it is probably the fruiting state of A. nigricans. 



28. A. comptum, Tulasne in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 190 ; 

 shoots puberulous, leaves 2-3 in. lanceolate long-acuminate base narrowed 

 shining above, spikes short simple or branched, flowers sessile or very 

 shortly pedicelled, bracts minute ovate acute, calyx 3-toothed rusty-tomen- 

 tose, disk glabrous entire, ovary glabrous above below fulvous pubescent, 

 drupe globose, stigmas terminal. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 263. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, on the Cottalam (Courtallam ?) Mts., LescTienault. 



The above description is taken from Tulasne, who says of it that it is a shrub 6- 

 12ft. high, with small narrow fulvous pubescent stipules not longer than the petioles, 

 and a very minute calyx, and that Thwaites (Enum. 289) has wrongly united it with 

 A. Bunius. I have seen no Indian species with the lower part of the ovary pubescent. 

 The habitat is that of a flowerless specimen of Heyne in Herb. Rottler, and which I 

 suppose is A. Mena.su. 



29. A. oblongratum, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 254; branches 

 obscurely pubescent, leaves 4|-7 by 1-2 in. shortly petioled linear-lanceolate 

 cuspidately acuminate rigidly membranous glabrous, petiole in. rather 

 shining, stipules lanceolate-subulate equalling the petioles, racemes very 

 slender panicled with stipular bracts at their bases, bracts linear-lanceolate, 

 male fl. minute long-pedicelled, calyx 3-4-lobed below the middle lobes 

 orbicular-ovate, disk thick glabrous, stamens 4-5, pistillode subcylmdric 

 glabrous, fruit by 7 in. ellipsoid obtuse at both ends with a lateral stigma- 

 tiferous notch half-way between the middle and tip. 



KHASIA MTS., J. D. H. $ T. T. 



I cannot find any plant answering to this description amongst Thomson's and my 

 Indian collections. In most characters it agrees with A. acuminatum, but that of the 

 stigma being placed in a notch of the fruit half-way between the base and apex is one I 

 have not met with in any species of Antidesma. See also 22. A. khasianum. 



30. A. perserrula, Kurz in Trimen's Journ. Sot. iv. (1875), 330; 

 branchlets rusty-hirsute, leaves 6-10 in. from oblong-lanceolate to obovate- 

 oblong acuminate or mucronate, nerves beneath hirsute, spikes simple, male 

 fl. minute sessile, sepals 3-5 acute, stamens 3-5, ovary yellow tomentose, 

 stigma terminal. 



NICOBAE ISLANDS ; forests of Kamorta, Kurz, 



