380 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ3. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Galearia. 



acuminate, petiole short but slender, pedicels of male fl. shorter or longer 

 than the flowers, petals and stamens glabrous. Bennettia Wallichii, Muell. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1038. Bennettia, Wall. Cat. 8585 E. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Tavoy, Gomez, Heifer, Lobb. SINGAPORE, Hallett. 



A tree. Leaves 5-7 by H-2 in., base usually acute (in our species 4& by 

 2 with rounded base), nerves 6-7 pairs ; petiole -jV~i in., much more slender than iu 

 the other species. Male racemes 6-12 in. ; bracts or minute, subulate ; flowers 

 -jijJL in. diam. Petals quite naked at- the margin and tips. Pistillode short, 

 tomentose, conic or with a dilated top. Mueller describes the fruit as | in. broad and 

 T \y long and rugose, but as there are no fruits in Wallich's specimens and he does not 

 allude to any others, those he described may belong to another species. Kurz's Wal- 

 lichii is G. Helferi, having tomentose branches, petioles and racemes. 



10. G-. phlebocarpa, Br. in Bennett Fl. Jav. 251 (Bennettia) ; leaves 

 elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate acuminate quite glabrous, male flowers very 

 minute subsessile, petals narrow glabrous except the ciliate tips, filaments 

 and anthers quite glabrous, fruit transversely oblong tessellately rugose. 

 Bennettia phlebocarpa, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1038. Bennettia, 

 Wall. Ca*. 8585D. 



SIKGAPOEE, Wallich. ? TENASSEEIM, Heifer. 



Branchlets glabrous, or with puberulous tips. Leaves 6-12 in., acute or obtuse ; 

 nerves 8-10 pairs, strong beneath ; petiole -^ in., glabrous or puberulous. Male 

 racemes 6-12 in., pubescent or tomentose ; bracts very minute, crowded, villous ; 

 flowers -^j in. diam. Petals narrower than usual in the genus, tips hispid with 

 deciduous hairs. Stamens very short. Pistillode obconic, glabrous, with a truncate 

 villous top. Fruit % in. diam., broadly wedge-shaped. The Tenasserim specimen, a 

 solitary one in flower only, has shorter broader leaves 4 by 2| in. with only 4 pairs 

 of nerves, and a more tomentose rachis of the raceme and calyx ; without fruit it 

 cannot be identified. I refrain from citing (after Mueller) the Sumatran G. suma- 

 trana, elliptica and angustifolia, Miquel. 



IMPEEEECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



BENNETTIA Finlaysoniana, r. in Bennett Fl. Jav. 251 ; Muell. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 1039). Wallich's specimens (No. 8585 B) have neither flower nor 

 fruit, nor have they any locality assigned to them in Wallich's printed Catalogue. 

 In the Flora Java? they are said to have been collected in Penangby Finlayson. It is 

 described as having pubescent branchlets and glabrous petals and stamens. Mueller 

 suggests its being the Sumatran G . splendens. 



28. BXXCRODESXKXS, Planch. 



Slender shrnbs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, penninerved. 

 Flowers minute, in axillary clusters, dioecious ; males numerous, fern. few. 

 MALE FL. Sepals 5 (4-6 ?), imbricate. Petals small, twisted and imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, or 10 and 2-seriate, inserted on a fleshy receptacle, filaments free ; 

 anthers erect, cells subparallel. Pistillode columnar, ovoid or 3-fid. 

 FEM. FL. Perianth of the male. Ovary fleshy, minutely 2-3-celled at the 

 base; styles short, 2-partite or lacerate; ovules 1 in each cell. Drupe 

 fleshy ; putamen bony, rugged. Seeds broadly ovoid, testa membranous, 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, flat. Species 2, tropical, an Asiatic and 

 an African. 



1VI. caseariaefolia, Planch, in Hook. Ic. PI. under t. 758; leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate entire or obscurely toothed, stamens 

 10 in 2 series, ovary 2-celled. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1041 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 408. Wall. Cat. 7987, 9077. 



