404 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dimorpliocalyx* 



of both sexes oblong, of the males longer than the sepals, of the fern, shorter. Capsule 

 $-i in. diam., slightly hairy. Seeds % in. long, oblong, mottled. I have examined 

 many female plants of this species from both Ceylon and the Peninsula, but have seen 

 no males. Croton Lawianus, Nimmo, referred here by Mueller, is a true Croton. I 

 do not know what " Falconer 1255," cited by Mueller, refers to. 



2. D. Lawianus, HooJc. f.\ leaves 4-8 in. elliptic-ovate -oblong or 

 -lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate, stamens about 15, ovary strigose, 

 fruiting perianth 1-2 iu. diam., segments oblong or lanceolate very unequal. 

 D. glabellus, Beddome in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 225, t. 26 (except Jigs. 10-12). 

 Trigonostemon Lawianus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 212, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 1106 (the Cancan plant only] ; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 273 

 (excl. syn t ). 



The CONCAK", Laio, Stocks, &c. TEAVANCOEE ; on the Anamallay Hills, nit.. 

 3-4000 ft., Beddome. 



I advance this as a species distinct from D. glabellus with hesitation ; it differs 

 from that plant in the much larger more membranous leaves with longer petioles, the 

 more numerous stamens, the usually much narrower and longer very unequal fruiting 

 sepals, and the fruit and seeds which are almost double the size. The plate of the 

 Anamallay plant given by Beddome in the Linuacan Transactions agrees with Lawianus 

 except in the fruiting sepals being in every instance equal, which they rarely are ; and 

 in the figures 10, 11, 12 of the male flower, which, if correct, indicate a widely 

 different species, for the sepals are represented as iree almost to the base, oblong with 

 a rounded dorsal gibbosity, and the corolla as having a broad entire tube and 5 small 

 recurved lobes ; the male disk also is represented as glabrous. Figs. 14 and 15, 

 which are stated to be abnormal male flowers of Concan specimens, precisely accord 

 with normal ones of D. Lawianus, except that the receptacle is glabrous. 1 suspect 

 that the calyx of figs. 10 and 12 is taken from a fern, flower, that fig. 12 is erroneous, 

 and that the hairs on the receptacles of figs. 12 and 15 were overlooked. Beddome' s 

 male and female specimens of the Anamallay plant in all respects agree with 

 Concan ones. 



3. Da malayanus, HooJc.f. ; leaves 3-5 in. elliptic or elliptic-oblong 

 obtusely acuminate, stamens about 10, ovary glabrous, fruiting perianth 

 about 1 in. diam., sepals broadly oblong subequal. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distril. 4785). PENA*G, Curtis, King's Collector. 

 DJSTRLB. Borneo. 



A shrub, 10-15 ft. BrancJilets slender, bark white. Leaves rather membranous, . 

 base acute or obtuse, nerves many pairs very slender; petiole g- in. Male fl. in 

 slender branched cymes ; calyx with 5 short obtuse teeth ; central stamens united 'in 

 a slender column with 5 free ones at their base; disk of large glands; receptacle 

 glabrous. Capsule ^ in. diam., deeply 3-lobed, quite glabrous. Seeds subglobose, 

 dark, mottled. Kurz's Codiceum andamanicum, which Bentbam by oversight (Gen. 

 Plant, iii. 302) referred to this species, is a Blachia. 



4. D. capillipes, Hoolc.f.; leaves 6-10 in. oblanceolate from a con- 

 tracted obtuse base acuminate obscurely serrate, petiole snort, fruiting 

 racemes elongate capillary naked few-fld., bracts foliaceous, fruiting perianth 

 1^ in. diam., sepals lanceolate acuminate very unequal. 



, Lolb. 



Quite glabrous; branches slender; tips and stipules strigose with yellow hairs. 

 Leaves 2-3 in. broad, membranous, brown when dry ; base minutely cordate; nerves 

 10-12 pair, very slender, flexuous, cross -nervules very faint reticulate ; petiole -33 in. ; 

 stipules subulate-lanceolate. Fruiting racemes axillary, 4-6 in. ; bracts oblong, -f in. 



