cxxxv. EUPHORBiACE,E. (J. D. Hooker.) 439 



40-50, filaments free, anther-cells reniform free above and below. Fruiting racemes 

 slender, 6-8 in., pedicels f in. Capsule in. diam., cocci rather thick and woody, 

 epicarp not separating. Seeds % in. long, subglobose, rather longer than broad, 

 smooth, br6wn. 



32. XVI. polyneurus, Hook. /. ; nearly glabrous, branchlets slender 

 leaves alternate petioled penninerved very membranous elliptic oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate cuspidately caudate-acuminate sinuate-toothed pellucid- 

 punctate but eglandular and shining beneath, nerves 10-12 pair, fern, 

 racemes very slender 1-2-fld., fern, sepals 6, ovary tomentose and clothed 

 with hispid spines, style very short, stigmas 2 plumose recurved. 



TENASSERIM, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 4764). 



Branchlets smooth, tips faintly hoary, as are' the young petioles and midrib 

 beneatli. Leaves 5-8 by 2-i-4 in., very thin, greenish above when dry, brown 

 beneath, with a few basal glands on the short lowest nerves ; base acute or subacute, 

 with no superficial glands above ; nerves and distant cross-nervules very slender; 

 petiole 1-1-j in., slender. Fern, racemes 2-3 in., 1-2 fld. ; flowers pedicelled ; sepals 

 lanceolate. The specimens are scanty, in very young fruit only, which is ^ in. diam. 

 They resemble no other species. The leaves, though pellucid-punctate, have no 

 superficial glands beneath. 



33. IVX. andamanicus, Hoolc.f. ; nearly glabrous, branchlets flattened, 

 leaves opposite very shortly petioled penninerved elliptic-oblong obtusely 

 acuminate entire or sinuate-toothed base acute minutely glandular beneath, 

 nerves 12-14 pair, male spikes very short terminal and axillary glandular, 

 bracts broadly ovate, flowers globose. M. muricatus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 384 

 (eatcl. syn.) ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 362. 



S. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. 



Branches stout, terete, smooth, branchlets strongly compressed, tips and very 

 young leaves covered with golden glands. Leaves 3^-7 by 2-4 in., firm, greenish 

 brown when dry, base eglandular ; nerves 12-14 pair, and cross-nervules slender, 

 arched ; petiole %% in., rather stout ; stipules broadly ovate, glabrous. Spikes 

 -1 in., sessile, dense-Id. Malefl. globose, T \j in. diam. ; calyx 3-partite, glandular; 

 stamens about 30, anther-cells separated by a rather narrow connective, shortly oblong 

 or rounded, sometimes divaricate below. A female specimen bears what I take to be 

 the very slender terminal peduncle, 1 in. long, of a capsule that has fallen away. 

 This differs remarkably from the Deccan M . muricatus in its much larger size, large 

 broad leaves with no tendency to the rhombic form, and especially in the numerous 

 pairs of nerves. Kurz describes the ovary as densely golden glandular and muricate ; 

 the capsule as golden glandular shortly sparingly muricate, and the cocci the size of 

 a pea. 



34. M. Kingrii, Hook. f. ; branchlets petioles leaves beneath and 

 panicles softly white-torn entose, leaves alternate penninerved narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong caudate-acuminate entire eglandular beneath, male flowers 

 subsessile in long slender sparingly branched leaf-opposed panicles, sepals 3 

 tomentose, stamens very numerous. 



PERAK, alt. 2000-2500 ft., King's Collector. 



A tree, 40-50 ft., branches terete smooth. Leaves distant, 8-10 by 2|-3| in. , 

 rather thin, pale green when dry and glabrous above, whiter beneath, base broadly 

 cuneate eglandular; nerves 12-16 pair, strong beneath, with rather distant 

 regular cross-nervules ; petiole 1-1 in., stout, terete, swollen at base and top ; stipules 

 oblong-lanceolate, tomentose. Male panicles 68 in.', pedancled, one opposite each 

 of the upper leaves ; branches very slender, flowers in. diam., in the axils of minute 

 broad bracts, pedicels -^ in. ; sepals unequal ; stamens very numerous, anther-cells 

 separated by the broad truncate connective which is often produced beyond them. 



