AlchorneaJ} cxxxv. EUPHOUBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 421 



Benth. in Hook. Journ. Sot. vi. (1854) 3. Kotllera mollissima, Wall. Cat. 

 7825. Sapium cordifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 693. 



CENTEAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA, in hot valleys; Nipal, Wallicli ; Sikkim, 

 Clarke. Assam, Masters. The ClRCAES, Roxburgh. 



A small tree ; branches woody ; bi'auchlets petioles leaves beneath and racemes 

 finely pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 4-6 in. diam., with usually large glands at 

 the base above; petioles stout, 2-6 in., terete: stipules small, subulate; stipellse 

 ^ in. Male racemes 4-6 in., very slender, pubescent ; buds T L in. diam., globose, 

 glabrous, grooved between the anthers ; calyx membranous, glabrous, usually bursting 

 irregularly. Fern, racemes 4-6 in., bracts small; base of calyx eglandular ; sepals 

 ^ in., lanceolate, pubescent ; ovary tomentose, styles free nearly to the base. Cap- 

 sules | in. diam. I have seen 110 specimens from the Circars, and have no means of 

 verifying the citation of Roxburgh's Sapium cordifolium. 



2. A. villosa, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 168, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 



ii. 902; pubescent or tomentose, leaves short-pctioled ovate acuminate 

 serrulate pellucidly dotted, base rounded cnneate or cordate, bracts and 

 sepals narrowly lanceolate hispidly hairy all over, styles twice as long or 

 more than the pubescent ovary, capsules globose faintly 3-lobed rather 

 rough or smooth glabrous or puberulous, seeds nearly as broad as long 

 dorsally compressed tubercled. A. Zollingeri, HassJc. Hort. Bogor. Ed. ii. 

 37. Stipellaria villosa, Benth. in Hook. Journ. JBot. vi. (1854) 4. Aparisth- 

 mium sumatranum, Reichb.f. et Zoll. in Retzia 37. Bleekeria Zollingeri, 

 Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 407. 



MALACCA, Cuming, Griffith, &c. (Kew Distrib. 4749), Maingay (Keio Distrib. 

 1379). PEEAE, Scortecliini, Wray, &c. DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java. 



Branchlets and racemes pubescent, tomentose, or villous with spreading hairs. 

 Leaves 4-6 in. broad, with or without basal glands; petiole 1-2 in.; stipellso i in. 

 Male racemes slender, pubescent ; buds ~^ in. diam., subglobose, hispid; flowers very 

 minute ; sepals 2-3, stamens 8. Fern. fl. including the capillary styles ^-f in. ; 

 sepals and bracts together about 12, very unequal ; ovary glabrous. Capsule size of 

 a pea. 



Var. fflalratas leaves glabrous beneath. Penang, Curtis. 



Var. ? latisepala ; leaves pubescent on the nerves beneath only, sepals and bracts 

 ovate obtuse or acute coarsely ciliate closely imbricate, styles shorter stouter. 

 Tenasserim, Helfcr (Keio Distrib. 4752). Probably a different species. 



3. A. discolor, Hook. f. ; branchlets petioles and racemes finely 

 pubescent, leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate serrate nearly glabrous not 

 pellucidly dotted red-purple beneath, ovary sparsely pubescent, styles united 

 form i their length. Wall. Cat. 7777. 



PENANG, Wallich, Walker ; on Gool Hill, Curtis. 



Branches woody. Leaves 46 in., base narrowed, green and glabrous above 

 with usually basal glands, beneath a fine vinous purple ; nerves 6-7 pairs above the 

 basal, slender, pubescent, cross-uervules raised ; petiole 2-5 in., very slender; stipules 

 filiform ; stipellse narrow. Male racemes 2-4 in., slender; buds -ij in. diaiu., hispid. 

 Fern, racemes slender; bracts subulate; calyx-base glandular; sepals -^ in. long, 

 subulate, unequal ; ovary glabrous with the style | in. long. Wallich's specimens have 

 thicker opaque leaves, in which I do not see the pellucid glauds. 



4. A. tiliaefolia, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 168, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 903 ; branches petioles and racemes finely pubescent, leaves 

 long petioled from broadly ovate to orbicular cuspidately acuminate or 

 caudate dentate or serrate most minutely pellncidly dotted, ovary pubescent, 

 styles equalling the oblong or subglobose tubercled capsules, seeds obovoid- 

 oblong nearly smooth. Kurz For. FL ii. 386. Stipellaria tilicefolia, Benth 



