440 cxxxv. EUPIJORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Mallet us. 



B. Capsules smooth. Leaves triple- nerved in all. (See also the species 

 mentioned under A.) 



35. IMC. penangrensis, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 186, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 961 ; quite glabrous, leaves opposite coriaceous penninerved 

 jointed at the petiole oblong-lanceolate polished cuspidate quite entire 

 eglandular beneath base acute, male spikes short puberulous, fern, laxly 

 clothed with long spreading hairs, styles free slender, capsules 3-dymous 

 villous and bristly. Antidesm. ?, Wall. Cat. 8576. Euphorb., Wall. Cat. 

 9092. 



PENANG, Porter, Curtis. MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1444). PERAK, 

 King's Collector. 



Branches woody. Leaves 4-6 by l-2 in., brown when dry and usually polished 

 above, base acute, obscurely glandular benenth with 6-10 pairs of strong nerves 

 besides a very obscure basal pair that are very short and close to the margin, cross- 

 uervules obscure ; petiole 1-1 in., slender. Male racemes 1-2 in.,' rather stout ; 

 bracts short, triangular, acute; buds globose, -^ in. diam., puberulous; stamens 

 about 50, connective broad glandular. Fern, racemes remarkable for the white hairs 

 in. long on the slender rachis and on the rigid bristle-like spines of the fruit. 

 Sepals 6, lanceolate. Capsule % in. diam., 3-lobed, villous between the spines; 

 styles connate at the base. The Malaccan specimens have more nerves than the 

 Penang. 



36. M. rhamnifolius, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 196, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 979 ; branclilets petioles and inflorescence finely pubescent or 

 tomentose, leaves opposite and alternate oblong or oblong-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate beneath minutely glandular strongly triple-nerved and reticulate, base 

 2-glandular rounded or subacute, male spikes equalling or exceeding the 

 leaves, flowers clustered globose, capsules small tridymous unarmed stellately 

 tomentose. Croton rhamnifolius, Willd. in, Nov. Act. Nat Cur. M. 

 micranthus, Muell. Arg. in Linn tea I, c. 191, and in DC. 1. c. 971 ; Beddome 

 Forester's Man. 209. M. zeylanicus, Muell. Arg. in Liniuea 1. c. 195, and 

 in DC. 1. c. 977; JBeddome I. c. 210. Eottlera oppositifolia, Thwaites Enum. 

 273 (excl. syn.}. A. nervosus, Eottl. # Willd. in Neue Schrift. G-esellsch. 

 Naturf. Freund. Berl. (1803) iv. 190. C. reticulatus, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 

 545 ; Wall. Cat. 7724 A. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; Trincomalee, Heyne ; Courtallam, Wight. CEYLON; 

 common up to 2000 ft., Moon, Gardner, &c. 



A tree ; branches terete, smooth. Leaves 3-6 in., firm, but not coriaceous, entire 

 or obscurely toothed, red brown when dry, sublaucous and puberulous beneath, 

 glands very minute, two basal often obscure ; nerves 4 -5 pair above the basal and 

 cross-nervules all strong and raised beneath ; petiole -3 in. Male spikes slender ; 

 bracts minute ; flowers globose, | in. diarn. ; calyx 4-partite ; stamens 40-50, 

 anther-cells subglobose, separated by a thick truncate connective. ' Fern, spikes 

 long, many-fld., twice or thrice as long as the leaves ; calyx 2-3-partite ; stigmas 

 short, thick. I have seen no fern. fl. or fruit. Wight's specimens are in male 

 fl., and have leaves rather glaucous and puberulous beneath ; the Trincomalee one 

 is so named by Heyne in Rottler's Herb. In Wall, Cat., Herb. Heyne is cited both 

 vnder this and N. aivomrens. The citation of " Nov. Act." for Grot, rhamnifolius 

 is from the Neue Schrift., and is not verifiable. 



Var. ? ovatifolia; leaves much smaller ovate acuminate base broad rounded, nerves 

 2-3 pairs above the basal. Ceylon ; at Balangoda, Thwaites (C.P. 196). 



37. XIX. atrovirens, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 195, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 978 ; glabrous except the sparsely pubescent racemes, leaves 

 rather shortly petioled alternate triple- nerved at the acute base elliptic or 



