360 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Antidesma. 



A tree, 25 30 ft. Leaves clmrtaceous ; petiole stout, minute, - in. Fruit 

 falcately ovate, i in. long-, compressed. Description from Kurz, who likens the plant 

 to A. puncticulatum, Miquel ; I have seen no specimens. 



31. A. salicifolium, Miquel Fl. Ind. Sat. Suppl 467? (not of 

 PresV) ; branchlets slender finely pubescent, leaves 3-5 by f-f- in. shortly 

 petioled linear-lanceolate acuminate quite glabrous, fruiting racemes slender 

 axillary and in snort terminal branches, bracts minute subulate, fruit in. 

 long ellipsoid hardly compressed rugose, style distinct short terminal, 

 stigmas minute. 



PEKAK ; on the Pluss river, Wray. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



A small tree. Leaves thin, greenish when dry, base very acute, midrib pubescent 

 above, nerves very slender; petiole in.; stipules narrowly lanceolate. Fruiting 

 spikes erect, 1-3 in. ; bracts very minute, subulate; calyx very minute, lobes 5 mem- 

 branous; disk thick, glabrous. Fruit shortly pedicelled. The Perak and Sumatran 

 specimens are flovverless. This differs from the description of A. salicifolium in the 

 Prodromus in the fruit being ellipsoid and straight, not subobliquely ovoid, and in the 

 perfectly glabrous petioles and midribs. 



32. A. Wattii, Hook. f. ; nearly glabrous, leaves subsessile 2-3 by 

 ^ in. coriaceous narrowly linear-lanceolate acuminate glossy above 

 margins recurved, racemes small slender axillary and in terminal panicles, 

 male fl. minute pedicelled, calyx cupular unequally 4-lobed, stamens 3-4 

 at the base of the small glabrous deeply lobed disk. 



MUNIPTJK, Watt. 



Branches very stout, woody, densely leafy, bark dark ; branchlets and young parts 

 pubescent. Leaves dull brown when dry, remarkably stiff, paler beneath, with very 

 slender ascending distant nerves ; petiole hardly any ; stipules small, subulate. 

 Racemes |-1 in., numerous ; bracts ovate or lanceolate, as long as the pedicels. 

 Disk lobed to nearly the base ; pistillode minute, glabrous. Quite unlike any other 

 species. In foliage it is almost identical with a Boruean species (Beccari No. 3831), 

 which however differs in the flowers being quite sessile and their structure. 



24. SCORTECHINIA, HooTc.f. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire or subserrate, penninerved, 

 petiole thickened at the apex. Flowers minute, dioecious, in lax axillary and 

 subterminal panicles, shortly pedicelled, apetalous. MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, 

 rounded, imbricate. Stamens 4-5, alternating with as many minute hairy 

 disk-glands; filaments stout, free; anthers broad, cells diverging a little, 

 adnate to the connective, dehiscence introrse. Pistillode short, 3-lobed, 

 hairy. FEM. FL. Sepals 4, imbricate. Ovary 2-3-celled ? ; stigmas 4, very 

 minute ; ovules (? 1 or 2), pendulous from the top of the cells. Fruit a 

 ] -celled elliptic-oblong thinly crustaceous hoary-white capsule, dehiscing by 

 4 free deciduous elliptic-lanceolate valves. Seed solitary, elliptic-oblong, 

 compressed, pendulous, testa thin crustaceous, albumen rather scanty firm ; 

 cotyledons amygdaloid, oblong, rounded at both ends', compressed ; radicle 

 minute, superior. Species 3 or 4, Malayan and a Papuan. 



1. S. Kingrii, HooTc.f. ; leaves eglandular at the base. 



PERAK, King's Collector. MALACCA, Griffith (Keio Dlstrib. 5030), llaingay 

 (Kew Distrib. 1^34). DISTUIB. Borneo (Beccari 1164). 



A tree 4060 ft. high in Perak. Branchlets woody ; tips and leaf-buds pnberulou c . 

 Leaves 4-7 in., dark chestnut-brown when dry, elliptic or cuneate-obovate, obtme 

 acute or cuspidately acuminate, base very acute, serratures obtuse glandular, ratlur 



