] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) 415 



species, of which there are fern, specimens and a good drawing in Dalzell's Herbarium, 

 but without locality. ]n the drawing two specimens are represented, one with an- 

 drogynous spikes, each consisting of one female bract, and a very slender rachis with 

 minute male flowers ; the other is wholly female, and bears solitary axillary long- 

 peduncled fern, bracts. , 



** Fern, spikes with many bracts. 



2. A. paniculata, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 406 ; leaves long-petioled 

 ovate acuminate, male ii. in axillary filiform long spikes, fern. fl. in axillary 

 and terminal racemes or panicles, bracts minute not enlarged in fruit. 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 802. A. racemosa, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 

 7784 ; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 443. A. Wallichiana, Thwaites Fnum. 

 271. A. filiformis, Heyne mss.Rheede Sort. Mai. x. t. 83. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; from Malabar southward. CEYLON ; ascending to 3000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Java, Trop. Africa. 



An undershrub or herb, finely pubescent. Leaves 2-6 in., coarsely unequally 

 crenate-scrrate ; petiole 1-4 in. Male spikes solitary, 2-6 in., dense-fld. ; fern, 

 racemes or panicles capillary; bracts scattered, 3-fld., ovate, obtuse, shorter than the 

 pedicels. Sepals of fern. glnd-ciliate, ovate-lanceolate, at length reflexed. Capsule 

 -Jg- in. diam., 3-lobed, glandular; styles 3-7-partite. Seeds reticulately pitted. 

 Mueller points out that Hoyne's unpublished name of racemosa, as taken up by 

 Baillon, i? the oldest, but not applicable. Mueller has described as forma depauperata 

 (Linnaea xxxiv. 8) a starved state from the Nilghiries with weak reduced axillary 

 male and female inflorescence. 



3. A. fruticosa, Forsk. Fl. ^g. Arab. 161 ; shrubby, stem glabrous, 

 leaves ovate acute or subacute crenate glabrous and glandular beneath, 

 spikes axillary short, bracts of fern, few lax 1-fld. many-toothed, enlarged in 

 fruit. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 822; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 397. A. 

 betulina, Retz. Obs. v. 30; Thwaites Enum. 271. A. amentacea, Boxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 676. A. capitata, Wall. Cat. 7783 B. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne, &c. PEGU, MAETABAN and AVA, Kurz. CEYLON, 

 Thwaites, &c. DISTEIB. Arabia, Trop. Africa. 



A strong-smelling shrub, more or less covered with yellow waxy glands ; shoots 

 and spikes pubescent. Leaves 1-3 in., crenate, obtuse or subacute, base usually 

 acute ; petiole much shorter than the limb. Spikes ^-1 in.., solitary, bracteate and 

 2-bracteolate, usually male with a few fern. fl. at the base. Sepals of male pubescent. 

 Ovary hairy and glandular ; styles with filiform arms. Capsules tomentose. Seeds 

 smooth. Habit of A. alnifolia, but the stems and leaves beneath are glabrous, and 

 the latter more or less glandular. I have seen no Burmese specimens. Large 

 specimens apparently of this species in male flower only, from the sea coast,Tinnevelly, 

 Wight (Kew Distrib. 2619), have leaves 3 in. long, deeply crenate, the young only 

 glandular beneath. 



4. A. alnifolia, Klein mss. ; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 525 ; shrubby, stems 

 pubescent and often ciliate with long deciduous hairs, leaves ovate acute 

 serrate pubescent above and usually tomentose beneath, male spikes axillary 

 slender dense-nd., fern, terminal sessile capitate, bracts 1-fld. 6-9-toothed 

 longer than the flowers, styles very long firnbriate or plumose with short 

 capillary branches. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 843; Baill. Etudes 

 Gen. Euplwrb. 442 ; Wall. Cat,. 7782; Wight in HodJc. Comp. ^Bot. Mag. 

 ii. t. 29. A. capitata, Willd. <$f Muell. II. c. Wall.' Cat. 7783 A. 



The DECC \N PENINSULA ; common, Heyne, &c. 



A small shrub, eglandular. Leaves 1-2 in., sometimes almost orbicular, base 

 rounded or subcordate variable in hairiness ; petiole rarely half the length of the 

 blade. Male spikes 1-3 in. ; fern, of few obtusely lobed imbricating bracts. Sepals 

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