444 (X\ xv. EUPHORDI \CE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Mall if m. 



SINGAPORE, Rotanioal Garden, Cantley. 



Branches stout, woody, terete, quite smooth, brown. Leaves 3-4 in., dull olive- 

 preen when dry above and brilliantly polisbed as if varnished, margin thin with ;i 

 broad yellow border, base acute or rounded, nerves 6-8 pair including the int.ru- 

 uiargiiKil basal pair, strong beneath, cross-nervules slender; petiole 1-1 in., slender, 

 terete, rigid. Male racemes stout, about as long as the leaves or longer, sometimes 

 paniculately branched ; pedicels ^- in. long, stout ; buds in. diain. ; sepals coria- 

 cpons. A remarkable plant, quite unlike any species of Mallotus known to me. 

 Ttie specimen bears a ticket inscribed Kaya Karangi, but it does not appear whether 

 this is the name of a place or of the plant. 



M. MOMJCCANUS, Linn. ; Muell. Ai\q. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 958, is an Amboyna 

 species (Wall. Cat. 7827 B in part), cultivated in the Calcutta Hot. Garden. Bed- 

 dome (Forester's Man.) gives S. Arcot as a locality for it, but without authority. 



55. CLEZDION, Blume. 



Glabrous trees. Leaves alternate, usually sinuate-toothed, penni nerved. 

 Floivers small, monoecious or dioecious ; males in long axillary racemes ; 

 fern. 1-2 on a long axillary peduncle. MALE FL. Calyx globose, splitting 

 into 3-4 valvate segments. Stamens over 20, in a globose mass on a conical 

 receptacle ; filaments free ; anthers dorsifixed, 4-celled, or the 2 cells trans- 

 versely didymous on the margins of a broad connective. Pistillode 0. 

 FEM. TL. Sepals 3-5, imbricate. Ovary 2-3-celled ; styles 2-3-fid, united 

 below, arms long filiform ; cells 1-ovuled. Capsule of 1-3 2-valved cocci. 

 Seeds subglobose, testa coriaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 

 Species about 13, tropical. 



1. C. javanicum, Blume Bijd. 613 ; leaves long-petioled elliptic to 

 oblong or elliptic-lanceolate acute or acuminate sinuate-toothed or entire, 

 male fl. racemose on slender pedicels, fruit tridymous cocci globose smooth. 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 987 ; Thwaites Enum. 272 ; Kuvz For. Fl. 

 390; Beddome Sylv. Madr. t. 272 ; Baill. Etudes G-en. Euphorb. t. 9, f. 3-5. 

 Lasiostyles salicifolia, Presl Bot. BemerJc. 149. Rottlera urandra, Dalz. iti 

 Jlook. Journ. Bot. iii. (1851)229: Dalz. $ Gils. Bomb. Fl. 230. Wall. 

 Cat. 7718, A, B, C, 7742, 7753, 7759 A. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-4000 ft., and KRASIA MTS. to* MUNNIPORE, BUIIMA, 

 TENASSEEIM, PENANG- and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS; and from the CONCAN to TKA- 

 VANCOKE. CEYLON; Central Province. DISTBIB. Java. 



An evergreen tree. Leaves 4-8 by l|-4 in., coriaceous, green when dry, base 

 acute, nerves 610 pair ; petiole 13 in., slender. Racemes 3-8 in., pubescent or 

 almost glabrous; bracts minute; male fl. ^ in. diain., sessile rind pedicelled ; fein. 

 solitary on long thickened pedicels ; sepals minute ; ovary 3-lobed, style and stigmas 

 in. long. Capsule 1-1J in. diam., on a peduncle 2-4 in. long. Seeds g in. diam., 

 globose, smooth, mottled or not. 



2. C. nitidum, Thw. ex Kurz For. Fl. ii. 391 ; leaves very shortly 

 petioled broadly to elliptically lanceolate acuminate at both ends sinuate- 

 toothed above the middle, male fl. sessile in small clusters on a long slender 

 8f)ike. Mallotus nitidus, Muell. Arg. m DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 979. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, rare, Kurz. CEYLON, Gardner, Walker, &c. 



A small evergreen tree. Leaves 2-3| in., thinly coriaceous, brownish when dry, 

 glossy ; petiole - in. Spike equalling or exceeding the leaves. Calyx glabrous, 

 globose in bud. An imperfVctly known plant, of which I have seen no Andaman 

 Island specimens, and of which the description is taken from Kura. I have, however, 

 a Ceylon Cleidion collected by Gardner, in female flower, that agrees with Kuix's 

 description ; the leaves are elliptic or obovate-oblong, dark brown above, paler 



