422 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Alchoniea. 



in HooTc. Journ. Sot. vi. (1854) 4. Croton Chiamala, Wall. Cat. 777:>. 

 Wall. Cat. 7829, 7995. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; at the foot of the hills, J. D. H., Clarice. BHOTAN, Griffith, 

 ASSAM, the KHASIA MTS. and SILHET, Wallich, &c. TENASSERIM and ANDAM \ x 

 ISLANDS, Kurz. 



An evergreen shrub; branches rather slender, terete, woody; branchlets some- 

 times tomentose. Leaves 6-10 in. broad, thin, base cuneate, rounded or cordate, 

 pellucid glands very minute ; base glandular or not ; nerves pubescent ; petiole 

 slender, 2-4 in. ; stipules filiform ; stipella) subulate or 0. Male racemes very 

 slender, 4-6 in., sparsely pubescent; buds globose, ^ in. diam., glabrous; calvx 

 membranous, often bursting irregularly. Fern. fl. shortly pedicelled ; calyx-base 

 eglandular; sepals subulate-lanceolate, \ in. long; ovary minutely tubcrcled ; styles 

 free to the base. Capsules | | in. long, very shortly pedicelled, 3-lobed, puberulous, 

 green with purple tubercles. 



Sect. II. CLADODES, Muell. Arg. Leaves penuinerved, estipellate. 

 Female sepals 4-6. Stamens 3-8. Styles shorter, flattened and lobed. 



5. A. rugrosa, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 170, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 905 ; glabrous, leaves petioled or sessile oblong-lanceolate or oblanceo- 

 late acuminate gland-serrate, male racemes panicled rigid slender, stamens 

 5-8 few stout, styles very stout united in a short column at the base, tips 

 dilated entire or cleft, capsules tridymous glabrous. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 385. 

 A. javensis, Muell. Arg. II. c. Aparisthmium javense, Hassle. Hort. Bogor. 

 235. Conceveibum javanense, Illume Bijd. b'14. C. latifolium, Zipp. in 

 Linncea xv. 349. Adelia glandulosa, Blanco Fl. Filip. 814. Wall. Cat. 

 7732, 7792. 



BUBMA ; at Amherst, Wallich. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. MALACCA, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 4730, 4780), Maingay (1409). DISTKIB. Eastward to China, the Malay 

 Archipelago and Bouton Straits. 



An undershrub (Maingay). Branches woody, terete, tips sparsely pubescent. 

 Leaves 610 by 23 in., thinly coriaceous, puberulous on the midrib beneath, very 

 obscurely and minutely pellucidly dotted ; base contracted, sometimes subcordate ; 

 nerves 8-10 pair, slender, as are the cross-nervules beneath; petiole 0-1 in. ; stipules 

 subulate. Male spikes 4-8 in., strict; flowers minute, in distant clusters; sepals 

 3-4. Fern, spikes shorter, stouter ; flowers very shortly pedicelled ; bracts minute, 

 2-glandular; sepals 6, broad, base subcordate ; disk thick; ovary 3-lobed, puberulous ; 

 style short, stout, arms twice as long as the rest of the ovary, thick, flattened and 

 sparingly cleft. Capsule the size of a pea. Maingay describes the style-arms as 

 either entire or cleft. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



6. Alchornea sp. ? ; densely white-torn entose, leaves estipellate 2-3 in. 

 oblong obtuse or subacute penninerved denticulate not pellucid-dotted base 

 triple-nerved, petiole 1-1^ in. slender, spikes terminal as long as the leaves, 

 Lracts minute, sepals i in. narrowly oblong closely imbricate, ovary pubes- 

 cent 3-celled, style stout, stigmas 3 long revolute. Perak, Scortechini. 



The fern, spikes resemble the catkin of a willow, the flowers resembling willow 

 pistils. The specimens are in a very young state, and in fern. fl. only. The plant is 

 very unlike anything I know, and 1 hope it may be recognized by the above 

 diagnosis. 



50. PODADENX&, Tliwailes. 



A large villous tree. Leaves alternate, broad, quite entire, penninerved. 

 Flowers in terminal tomentose bracteate glandular paniculate racemes, 

 dioacious, apetalous ; males clustered ; fern, subsolitary. Disk 0. MALE FL. 



