cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) 429 



leaves opposite or alternate long-petioled broadly or orbicular ovate finely 

 acuminate, base 3-nerved, male racemes elongate very stout, flowers large, 

 fern, racemes shorter, capsules thin tomentose and shaggy with long soft 

 flexuous stellately tomeutose spines. M. oreophilus, MuelL Arg. in Linncea 

 xxxiv. 188, and'in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 964; Gamble Man. Lid. Tlnib. 362. 

 Wall. Cat. 7824. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN" HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., 

 J. D. 'ff., &c. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. S. $. T. T. 



A small tree. Leaves 3-8 in. diam., thinly coriaceous, glabrous above except 

 when young, quite entire ; base truncate, rarely subcordate, or acute in young leaves ; 

 colour of pubescence very variable, nerves and nervules strong. Male racemes 

 6-12 in.; bracts lanceolate; flowers in. diam., globose in bud; stamens very 

 numerous. Fern, racemes very stout, especially in fruit; pedicels short, stout; 

 sepals narrow ; ovary shaggy with short tomentose processes. Capsules densely 

 crowded, ^ in. diam., criuite ; cocci very thin. Seeds % in. long, subhemispheric, 

 black, opaque. 



5. 1*1. albus, MuelL Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 188, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 965 ; branches leaves beneath and inflorescence appressedly stellately 

 or scurfily white or rusty-tomentose, leaves alternate broadly ovate or orbicular 

 or triangular-ovate acuminate entire or with shallow lobes rarely sinuate- 

 toothed, base 3-5-nerved rounded and narrowly peltate or. truncate rarely 

 acute, flowers in axillary and terminal pyramidal panicles, males globose, 

 fem. calyx 4-5-lobed, capsule 3-4-coccous muricateand with short soft white 

 tomentose processes. Brandis For. Fl. 444; Gamble Man. 2nd. Ttmb. 361; 

 Beddome Forester s Man. 208. M. tetracoccus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 383. 

 Kottlera alba & tetracocca, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 829, 826. E. mappoides, 

 Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. (1851) 122; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 230. 

 R. peltata, Wight Ic. t. 1873. E. paniculata, Wall. Cat. 7812. Wall. Cat. 

 7818 B, C, E. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; ascending to 3000 fb., J. J), H., &c. BENGAL, ASSAM and 

 southward to CHITTAGONO. 



A small evergreen tree, 30-40 ft. ; branchlets rather stout. Leaves 4-6, rarely 

 12 in. diam., young densely rusty-tomeutose, sometimes coriaceous, base with 2 

 glands ; petiole 3-8 in. ; stipules minute. Male panicles with long rather slender 

 branches, fem. shorter stouter. Flowers direcious; male buds globose | i in. diam., 

 calyx 45 partite, fem. calyx hemispheric. Capsule ^~| in. diam., globose, white, 

 usually 4- rarely 5-coccous. Seed black, shining. I have not given the Penang 

 locality to this plant, and I suspect that Roxburgh is iu error in doing so. 



VAR. occidentalism fem. panicles larger and more effuse, capsules with longer and 

 denser processes. Deccan Peninsula, on the Ghuts from the Concan southwards. 

 Ceylon, common. 



6. 3*1. macrostachyus, MuelL Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 963; 

 branches petioles leaves beneath and inflorescence shortly whitish or rusty- 

 tomentose, leaves large usually alternate long-petioled orbicular- or trian- 

 gular-cordate acuminate entire or remotely sinuate-toothed, base rounded 

 or transverse 5-nerved sometimes slightly peltate, racemes spiciform very 

 long, male branched at the base, male fl. small globose, fem. larger sub- 

 cylmdric cleft and 5-fid, capsules subglobose densely spinous, spines con- 

 cealed by a thick soft stellate wool. Eottlera macrostachya, Miquel FL 

 Ind. Bat. Sul 454. 



PERAK; King's Collector. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1381). 

 DISTBIB. Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



