Ostodes.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 401 



8-12 iu.; bracts minute; flowers ^ in. diain., pedicellcd. Sepals unequal, concave. 

 Petals unequal, very shortly clawed. Disk-glands of male large ; receptacle convex, 

 villous. Stamens about 20, filaments villous at the base; anthers erect, introrse. 

 Capsule 1] in. long, subglobose, 3-lobed, rather rough, valves thickly crustaceous or 

 woody. Seeds globose, 1 in. diam., brown and mottled, smooth. The leaves are 

 distinctly triple-nerved at the base ; the other nerves are very rarely hairy at the axils ; 

 the- petals are not hairy at the base. 



3. O. appendiculata, Hook. f. ; leaves stibsessile 1-2 ft. linear- 

 oblong all penninerved glabrous quite entire, racemes from the lower part of 

 the stem tomentose stout ; petals broad villous at the back and furnished 

 towards the base within with 2 waved transverse appendages. 



PERAK ; at Larut, alt. 500-1000 ft., King's Collector. 



A leafy tree, 40-60 ft. Leaves coriaceous, 6 in. broad, green when dry, shining 

 above, base acute; nerves 12-15 pair, arched, strong beneath; petiole in., very 

 stout. Racemes white-tomentose, branches stout, 6-8 in. ; male fl. in short 3-5-fld. 

 branches ; bracts short, pedicels equalling the calyx or shorter. Male calyx of 5 

 broad rounded very coriaceous imbricate hoary sepals, glabrous within. Petals longer 

 than the sepal?, erect with recurved tips, thick ; the long white hairs on the back 

 occupy a broad round area below the middle ; villous in front below the appendages. 

 Disk 0. Stamens 8, in the centre of the flower ; filaments free, clothed with long 

 silky hairs ; anthers broad, introrse. Fern. fl. and fruit unknown. This may form a 

 distinct genus when the fern. fl. and fruit are known. 



4. O. Kelferi, Muell. Ary. in Linncea xxxiv. 215, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 1115; leaves bifarious 8-9 in. glabrous oblong or obovate-lanceolate 

 cuspidately acuminate quite entire, petiole very short, flowers very small 

 fascicled, in the axils. Kurz For. fl. 404. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Heifer. 



Branches densely lenticellate. Leaves 3-4 in. broad, thin, base rounded, eglan- 

 dnlar, midrib rough beneath ; nerves 10-14 pair, arched, rather slender ; petiole gin., 

 very stout. Male ft. on short stout pedicels shorter than the petiole and with many 

 bracts at the base. Sepals and petals 5-6 each, externally finely pubescent, both 

 concave and very coriaceous, -^ in. long. Stamens in a hemispheric mass, very 

 numerous and densely packed ; anthers short, aduate to the broad filament, 2-celled, 

 extrorse. The habit ot this is entirely different from any of the preceding, and is 

 likened by Mueller to a Gelonium, but the leaves are much larger. The specimens 

 seen by him are probably more advanced than the Kew ones, for he describes the 

 receptacle as hairy, and the bracts as distichous. 



5. O. xnuricata 9 ILooTc. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves long-petioled, 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acuminate entire or serrate penninerved base 

 acute, male fl. Ion g-pedi celled in short cymes, calyx obtusely 5-lobed, petals 

 oblong smooth within, stamens 20-30, fern, solitary, capsule trigonously 

 globose on a stout woody peduncle echinate. 



PERAK; at Larut, King's Collector. 



A small tree, 10-20 ft. ; branchlets woody, bark pale. Leaves C-10 by 3-4 in., 

 coriaceous ; nerves 10-12 pair, basal pair inconspicuous, cross-nervules very faint ; 

 petiole l-2 in., rather slender, 2-grooved above. Male cymes axillary and on the 

 old wood", about 1 in. long; pedicels -1 in., slender, irregularly fascicled on the 

 short rachis ; bracts small, ovate ; flowers white, black when dry ; calyx -lobes rounded ; 

 petals oblong ; stamens short, subequal, anthers introrse. Capsule about f in. diam.; 

 peduncle -i-l in. long ; pericarp of valves black, echiuate, thin ; cocci rather thick, 

 grey. Seeds upwards of ^ in. long, ellipsoid, smooth, brown. 



VAR. ? minor; haves smaller 4-7 in. thinner more ovate-lanceolate with much 



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