Dim&rplwcalyx.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 405 



long; pedicels as long, thickened and angular above. Fruiting sepals 1-uerved, 

 larger oblong. lanceolate. Capsule in. diam., hoary, cocci globose smooth thinly 

 crustaceous. Seeds subglobose, polished, mottled. 



5. D. XLunstleri, King mss. ; leaves 2-3 in. elliptic-oblong obtuse 

 quite entire whitish beneath base acute, male cymes subterminal short, 

 stamens about 13. 



, King's Collector. 



A shrub, 10-15 ft., quite glabrous, much branched, branches slender. Leaves 

 -i-1 in. broad, thin, brown above when dry, nerves many very slender; petiole in.; 

 stipules triangular-ovate. Cymes of male fl. 1 in., 6-8-fld., quite glabrous, leafy 

 towards the base; bracts miuute ; pedicels -$-% in. Flowers campauulate, white, 

 in. broad; calyx cupular, broadly 5-toothed ; petals oblong ; glands large ; stamens 

 5 at the base of the column, and 8 at the top. 



41. ERXS1KANTHUS, Wall. 



Subscandent shrubs. Leaves subsessile, opposite, bifarious, oblong, base 

 on one side cordate, penninerved ; stipules rigid. Flowers axillary, monoe- 

 cious, males on long capillary pedicels arisiug from the bracts of a short 

 subsessile axillary cone, petaliferous, females solitary in separate axils long 

 pedicelled, apetalous. Disk 0. MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, oblong, reflexed, 

 imbricate ? Petals half the size, narrower. Stamens about 12, inserted on 

 a conical hairy receptacle, that terminates in a very long capillary pistil- 

 lode ; filaments very short ; anthers large, broadly didymous, compressed ; 

 cells dehiscing along the top and margins. FEM. FL. Sepals 5, elliptic- 

 oblong, large, unequal, foliaceous, enlarging in fruit. Ovary 3-lobed, 

 3-celled, hispid ; styles very long, united below, 2-partite, arms filiform 

 hispid ; ovule 1 in each cell. Capsule of 3 crustaceous subglobose hispid 

 cocci. Seeds globose. Species 2, the following and a Chinese one. 



E. obliqua, Wall. Cat. 8011 ; MuelL A.rg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 1138 ; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 669. 



PENANG, WallicJi. PERAK, King's Collector. DISTEIB. Borneo (Beccari No. 769 

 and 632). 



A sparsely hairy shrub; branches slender, terete, woody. Leaves 5-7 in., thinly 

 coriaceous, green when dry, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 10-12-uerved, obscurely 

 crenate, lower base rounded, upper very narrow; petiole - in. , often bright red; 

 stipules in., lanceolate, green, persistent. Cones of bracts of male fl. -$ in., 

 usually reflexed, and concealed under the leaf-bases ; bracts subulate, most densely 

 imbricate, hispid ; male fl. ^ in. diam., very numerous, forming a tangled mass of 

 hairy capillary pedicels in. long; sepals and petals membranous; pistillode ^ in., 

 as slender as the pedicels, sparsely hairy, terminated by two narrow lamellae. Fern. 

 pedicel 2-6 in., stiff, strigose, with a few minute bracts; perianth -J-l in. diam.; 

 sepals rigid, 1-nerved, mucrouate, obscui-ely serrate. Ovary minute, styles ^ in. 

 long; ovule with a 2-fid obturator. Capsule about in. diam., epicarp not separat- 

 ing. Seed mottled. I am indebted to Dr. King for notes and materials enabling 

 me to complete the description of this curious genus, of which a Chinese species is 

 figured in the " Icones Plantarum " (t. 1578). 



42. AGROSTISTACHYS, Dak. 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, usually very long, often 

 subsessile, entire, serrate or sinuate. Floivers in axillary or supra-axillary 



