Maearanga.'] oxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 453 



ovate-lanceolate from a rounded peltate base entire caudate-acuminate 

 sinuate-dentate minutely glandular beneath, fern. fl. few capitate on an axil- 

 lary short very stout peduncle, ovary 4-5-celled, styles 5 short acute connate 

 into a subglobose base, capsule depressed, cocci produced into conical horns. 



PEBAK, King's Collector. 



A small tree ; branchlets as tbick as a goose-quill, terete, hollow, glabrous or with 

 a few scattered hairs. Leaves 5-7 by 2-3 in., broadest opposite the insertion of the 

 petiole, thinly coriaceous, above rather shining and reticulate, eglandular at the 

 7-nerved base, beneath opaque, paler, with 8-10 pairs of slender nerves above the 

 basal and slender cross-nervules ; petiole 34 in., very slender ; stipules not seen. 

 Peduncle of fern. fl. 1 in., very stout; calyx 4-lobed. Capsules bluish, -f in.diam., 

 hemispheric below, horns glandular. 



Series III. Male a,vdfem.fl. racemose, or fern, subsolitary. Styles very 

 long and slender. Leaves narrow, not peltate. 



22. M. digryna, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1007; nearly 

 glabrous, leaves long-petioled elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate from a rounded 

 base caudate-acuminate obscurely crenulate copiously glandular beneath, 

 racemes very slender, bracts of male very minute, stamens 10-12,' capsules 

 racemose compressed didymous. Seddome Forester's Man. 211. * B-ottlera 

 digyna, Tkwaites Enum. 273. Mappa digyna, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 

 198. Claoxylon digynum, Wight Ic. t. 1884. 



CEYLON ; at Caltura, &e., Moon, Walker, &c. 



A small tree ; branchlets slender, terete, smooth, tips glandular. Leaves 5-8 by 

 1^2 in., thinly coriaceous, shortly triple-nerved and 2-glandular at the very base above ; 

 nerves 8-15 pair above the basal, very slender; petiole 1-3 in., very slender ; stipules 

 on the terminal buds only ^ in., needle-shaped. Male racemes 3-4 in., quire simple; 

 bracts subulate or 0; male fl. -$ in. diam., buds globose; sepals 3, orbicular, glan- 

 dular. Fern, racemes longer ; sepals 4, very unequal ; stigmas filiform, in. long. 

 Capsules J in. diam.; cocci quite smooth, thinly crustaceous. Seeds glebose, brown, 

 shining. 



23. 1H. Lowii, King in Herb. Calcutt. ; glabrous except the inflo- 

 rescence, leaves long-petioled elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acuminate (some- 

 times obtusely) coriaceous penninerved minutely glandular beneath, male 

 racemes sessile slender pubescent, bracts small concave, stamens 15-20, cap- 

 sules 1-3 terminating a long peduncle with a foliaceous bract didymous 

 spinous. Wall. Cat. 7996 (flowers monstrous) and 9100. 



PENANG, Wallich; on Goot Hill, Curtis. PEBAK, King's Collector. SINGA- 

 POEE, Cantley. 



A small tree ; branches woody, terete, glabrous or nearly so to the tips. Leaves 

 4-7 by 1-2 in., pale when dry, and rather shining above, margins with obscure dis- 

 tant glands, tips long or short, cordate at the very narrow 2-glandular base ; nerves 

 12-14 pair, very slender, cross-nervules faint ; petiole 1-3 in., very slender ; stipules 

 rigid, subulate, ^ in. long. Male racemes sometimes as long as the leaves ; bracts 

 tomentose, shorter than the flowers, concave, acute ; flowers -J^ in. diam., glandular 

 and hispidulous; sepals orbicular. Peduncle of fern. fl. 2-3 in., stout, stiff, erect, 

 pubescent ; flowers 1-9 near the end of the peduncle ; bract in. long and broad, 

 orbicular, tootbed, acute ; sepals 6, lanceolate; ovary spinous ; styles long, filiform. 

 Capsules ^^ in diam., puberulous ; cocci globose, thickly crustaceous. Seeds globose, 

 brown, polished. The Singapore plant is not in a good state, the stipules are extremely 

 slender. 



24. XVX. Brandisii, King in Herl. Calcutt. ; glabrous, leaves shortly 



