Claoxylon.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 411 



acute obtuse rounded or subcordate, eglandular; petiole 3-5 in. Racemes hoary - 

 toraentose; mnles longest with scattered clusters of subsessile flowers; female with 

 solitary pedicelled flowers. Capsules tomentose, depressed ; cocci keeled. Seeds 

 (ripe ?) rugose. The more glabrous narrower-] eaved forms look very different from 

 the very broad tomentose ones (Mueller's var. /}.), but in the Malay Islands both 

 accompany the same very marked capsule, which is quite unlike that of any other 

 species. 



2. C. long-ifolium, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 781 (in part") ; 

 leaves long-petioled elliptic-oblong or lanceolate quite glabrous base acute 

 sinuate-toothed or entire, racemes -4-6 in., flowers pedicelled, stamens 40-50, 

 receptacle with long villous scales, fruit f in. diam. with 3 globose rugose 

 cocci, seeds i in. diam. smooth. Erythrochilus longifolius, Blume Bijd. 

 616 Wall. Cat. 7715 B. 



PENANG, WallicJi, Curtis, Mamgay (Kew Distrib. 1408). SINGAPORE, Sallett. 

 DTSTRIB. Java. Sumatra (Beccari No. 540). 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, 4-10 ft. (Kurz) ; stem hollow ; shoots pubescent. 

 Leaves 3-6 in., green when dry, puberulous beneath ; petiole 2-5 in. Racemes hoary, 

 2-3 in. ; flowers ^ in. diam. Fruit apparently bursting irregularly tridymous, hoary 

 without, silky within. The Calcutta Garden plant is, I think, rightly referred to this 

 by Mueller, but is, I suspect, from Penaug, and not from the Khasia Mts. On the 

 other hand, the Khasia plant of Thomson's and my collection, also referred here bv 

 Mueller, is C. Tchasiana, differing in the very short scales amongst the stamens. I 

 have seen no Javan specimens of C. longifolium. The Indian plant differs from 

 C. indicum in the fruit and seed. The following varieties may be distinct species. 



C. LONGIFOLIUM proper ; racemes 4-8 in., flowers sessile or shortly pedicelled. 

 Penang (Wall. Gat. 7715 B). 



Var. brachystachys', more glabrous, racemes 2-3 in., pedicels longer more slender 

 3 in. long. Penang, Curtis; Singapore, Hallett. 



** Filaments mixed with very small scales, or scales 0. 



3. C. khasianum, HooTc.f. ; leaves long-petioled elliptic- or oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate obscurely sinuate -toothed glabrous, racemes 1-3 in. 

 hoary, flowers minute sessile, stamens about 50, receptacle with minute 

 scales or glands, fruit of 1-3 globose membranous hoary carpels ^ in. diam., 

 seed i in.- diam. C. longifolium, /3. glabrum, Muell. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 781 (the Khasian plant only}. 



ASSAM, SILHET, CACHAR and the KHASIA MTS., Griffith, Wallich, J. D. If. fy T. T. 



Habit and foliage of C. indicum and longifolium, but differing from the former in 

 the fruit and seed, and from both in the small male flowers, ~ in. diam., and the 

 minute scales and glands of the receptacle. 



Var. ? serrulata ; leaves serrulate, racemes 6-10 in. Garrow Hills, Simons. 



4. C. Wallichianum, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 781 ; leaves 

 shortly petioled oblanceolate or subcuneately obovate acuminate base very 

 narrow sinuate serrulate, racemes 1-2 in. slender few-fld., stamens about 

 30, scales of receptacle few minute, fruit in. diam. 3-lobed, seed ^ in. diam. 

 Wall. Cat. 7740 A. 



MALAGA PENINSULA ; Penang, Porter, Curtis ; PEEAE, ascending to 4000 ft., 

 King's Collector. 



Branches rather slender, terete, and petioles pubescent. Leaves 6-10 by 1^-3 in., 

 membranous, pubescent beneath; petiole -1 in., slender. Racemes pubescent, 

 flowers minute fascicled. Fruit pedicelled, nearly glabrous, pericarp thinly crusta- 

 ceous glabrous within. Seeds % in. diam., subglobose, pointed, rugose. 



