454 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Mamranga. 



petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate or caudate penninerved with scattered 

 black glands beneath, fern, bracts large leafy, capsules didymous glandular 

 smooth or with a few soft prickles. 



TENASSERIM, on Moolyet, alt. 2-6000 ft., Beddome, Gallatly. 



A. tree, 20 ft. ; branchlets slender, woody, terete, tips glandular. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, 4-6 by 1-2 in., margins eglandular, base acute or rounded minutely 

 cordate eglandular ; nerves 8-10 pairs, very slender; petiole -1 in., slender, often 

 viscid; stipules minute, setaceous. Peduncles of fern. fl. 2-4 in., very slender, 

 -2-fld., erect, leafy ; bracts -! in., broadly ovate to lanceolate ; sepals 4 ; styles 

 filiform, about as long as the cocci. Capsule f in. diaui. ; cocci globose, rather 

 compressed, crustaceous. Seeds globose, smooth, brown. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN, DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



M. DEPRESSA, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 989, is a Javan and Bornean 

 plant ; Ceylon is given as a locality to a specimen in Thunberg's Herbarium at 

 Upsala, but there is no confirmation of it. 



M. INVOLUCRATA, Muell. Arg. 1. c. 1011, from Bengal (Leschenhauit). is no 

 doubt a garden plant, and is Wallich's No. 4621 from the Calcutta Garden. 1 believe 

 it to be a native of the Moluccas. 



M. SP. ? Chittagong (Hook. f. Sf T., Clarke) ; a small tree, branches slender 

 glaucous quite glabrous, leaves narrowly peltate ovate acuminate glaucous beneath 

 base rounded eglandular, nerves 8-10 pair very slender, petiole as long as the 

 blade. 



M. MEMBRANACEA, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 389 ; an erect subsimple shrub, leaves long- 

 petioled membranous hardly peltate entire and ovate lanceolate caudate acuminate or 

 broadly ovate and entire or with 2-3 caudate lobes minutely gland-dotted, margins 

 minutely toothed above minutely scaberulous beneath pnbesceut, base cuneate or 

 truncate, nerves very slender, petiole 2-3 in. very slender, male fl. unknown, fern. 1-3, 

 sepals at the top of a slender peduncle with a lacerate puberulous leafy bract, calyx 

 urceolate embracing the style base, ovary hirsute and glandular, styles i in. filiform 

 glabrous, capsule 2-coccous 2-lobed, cocci size of a small pea powdered with red 

 glands and loosely covered with filiform flexuous smooth bristles, seeds spherica 

 brown smooth glabrous. Pegu, Ava and Martaban, alt. 4-6000 ft., Kurz. Yunan, 

 J. Anderson. I am indebted to Dr. King for specimens. 



M. JAVANICA, var. montana, Wawra, Bot. It. Pr. Sax. Cob. 48. I am unable to 

 identify this. 



57. PTYCHOPYXIS, Miguel. 



A tree with densely tomentose very stout branchlets petioles and inflo- 

 rescence ; hairs simple. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branchlets, 

 alternate, very coriaceous, oblanceolate, acuminate, entire, penninerved ; 

 petiole very short. Flowers axillary, dioecious ?, crowded and surrounded 

 with densely tomentose thick lanceolate bracts ; males spicate, fern, capitate. 

 MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, subequal, thick, valvate. Disk 0. Stamens very 

 numerous, in a globose head on a convex hairy receptacle ; filaments 

 flexuous, filiform, with subulate tips ; anthers broadly oblong, flat, cells 4 

 in superposed pairs on each side of the broad connective, which is produced 

 beyond them into a broad acute triangular point, two upper cells oblong, 

 two lower much smaller, testicular, slits of all introrse longitudinally ; 

 pollen very minute. Piatillode 0. FEM. FL. Sepals 6, lanceolate, thick, 

 unequal or subequal, persistent. Ovary 3-celled, and elongate style vil- 

 lously tomentose ; stigmas or style-arms 3 ; short, recurved, entire, hispidly 



