414 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [C7ao.tv/7/.*;/. 



Forests of PEGU, Kurz. 



An evergreen meagre low shrub, 3-4 ft. ; stem very stout, fistular ; shoots stellate- 

 pubescent. Leaves eglandular at the base. The only specimen I have seen is in 

 fruit; the three strong long spreading basal nerves are quite unlike any Indian specie* 

 of the genus. The fruiting raceme is very short, the fruit pedicelled, and the seeds 

 remain attached to the axis of the fruit after the fall of the crustaceous stellately 

 woolly valves. 



13. Claoxylon sp. ; leaves long and stoutly petioled 10-12 by 2-4 in. 

 oblong acuminate subentire glabrous above sparsely pubescent beneath base 

 acute eglandular, petiole 2-3 in., young racemes very short, stamens 60-70 

 filaments short, anthers long for the genus, receptacle glabrous. 



PERAE, on Larut Peak, alt. 2-2500 ft., Herb. Sort. Sot. Gale. (No. 2177). 

 A shrub, 3-6 ft. Possibly a variety of C. longipetiolatum, but the flowers are 

 much larger. 



14. Claoxylon sp. ; leaves 5-6 by 2-2| in. membranous oblong 

 acuminate scaberulous on both surfaces subserrate base acute 2-glandnlaiv 

 petiole -|-1 in., fruit about in. diam. 3-lobed hoary crustaceous. 



Tinnevelly Hills, Beddome, 



15. Claoxylon sp. ; stem very stout, shoots hoary, leaves very large 

 12-16 by 5-7 in. oblong acute or obtuse quite entire or sinuate-serrate base 

 broad rounded or subcordate eglandular, nerves very spreading scaberulous 

 above nearly glabrous beneath, petiole 6-10 in. stout, racemes peduncled, 

 hoary, flowers (very young) minute. 



CACIIAR, Keenan. PEGU, Kurz. 



A very large robust species, possibly a form of C. Wiasianum. 



46. ACAXiYPHA, Linn. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, toothed or crenate, rarely 

 entire, penninerved or 3-5-plinerved. Floivers minute, in axillary or ter- 

 minal racemes, or females 1-2 in a peduncled solitary bract, monoecious,, 

 rarely dioecious, apetalous ; males very minute, ebracteate ; fern, at the 

 base of the male spike, or in separate spikes, often at the base of large- 

 accrescent leafy bracts. MALE FL. Disk 0. Calyx membranous, splitting 

 into 4 valvate sepals. Stamens many, often 8, on a convex receptacle, 

 filaments free ; anther-cells divaricate, often twisted or flexuous. Pistillode 

 0. FEM. PL. Sepals 3-4, imbricate, often minute. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 

 filiform, often very long and laciniate or fimbriate; ovules 1 in each cell, 

 Capsule of 3 minute 2-valved crustaceous cocci. Seeds subglobose, testa 

 crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species upwards of 

 220, tropical and subtropical. 



* Fern, bracts solitary, very large, %-flowered. 



1. A. Dalzelliij HooJc. f.\ shrubby, glabrous, leaves long-petiolecl 

 ovate obtuse base cuneate obscurely crenate, bract very large orbicular- 

 reniform 2-fld., peduncle capillary. 



The CONCAN ?, Dahell. 



Much branched, branches terete, bark brown. Leaves 2-3 in., membranous, 3-5- 

 plinerved, nerves very slender ; petiole - 1 in., very slender. Bracts (female flower - 

 n g.) i_| jn. diam., quite entire; peduncles -1 in.; sepals lanceolate, ciliate ; ovary 

 glabrous, 3-4-celled ; styles pectinately laciniate, $ in. !ng- A very remarkable 



