458 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 



calyx nearly as long ; styles often highly coloured. Capsule -1 in. long, globosely 

 obloug, smooth or echiuate. Seeds oblong, smooth, mottled. 



61. XSNDOSPERBXUIK, Pcnth. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, rounded, ovate-cordate, often sub- 

 peltate, entire, 3-5-plinerved. Flowers small, in axillary long simple 

 spikes or racemes, dioecious, apetalous ; males clustered, subsessile on 

 the racbis; fern, solitary in the bracts. MALE FL. Calyx globose, shortly 

 unequally subvalvately 4-toothed. Stamens 6-10, on a convex or conic 

 receptacle, filaments short ; anthers didymous, equally 4-locellate and 

 -valved. Pistillode 0, or minute. FEM. FL. Calyx 5-toothed. Ovary 2-3- 

 celled ; styles connate, forming a flat spreading entire or 3-lobed disk ; cells 

 1-ovuled. Fruit globose or indehiscent 2-3-lobed, endocarp crustaceous, 

 columella 0. Seeds globose, testa reticulately rugose ; embryo ? Species 3-4, 

 Malayan and Chinese. 



1. E. malaccense, Muelt. Ara. in Flora xlvii. (1864), 469, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1132 ; leaves orbicular-ovate, obtuse or acute, above gla- 

 brous or puberulous, beneath hoary and studded with minute glands, base 

 rounded or subcordate eglandular, fruit stellately hoary. 



PENANG, PERAK, SINGAPORE and MALACCA, Griffith, &c. 



A tree ; branchlets stout, pubescent or furfuraceous. Leaves 4-6 in., coriaceous, 

 pale grey when dry above, yellowish or pale brown beneath, base cuneate rounded 

 or subcordate ; nerves 3-4 pair above the basal strong as are the cross-uervules and 

 reticulations ; petiole 35 in. Racemes 3-4 in., slender, hoary, flower-clusters 

 scattered; male fl. T ^ in., sessile; fern, pedicelled. Fruit \ in. diam., globose or 

 didymous, pericarp thin, wrinkled when dry, yellow, densely minutely glandular. 



2. ZS. perakense, King in Serb. Calcutt. ; nearly glabrous, leaves 

 broadly ovate-cordate glabrous above, base eglandular, fruit viscid. 



PERAK ; at Larut, King's Collector. 



A tree, 80 ft., resembling E. malaccense, but the branchlets are much more 

 slender and quite glabrous, leaves smaller (3-5 in. long), petiole more slender, 

 fruiting racemes shorter (3 in. long), quite glabrous, and fruit clothed with a viscid 

 secretion. 



3. E. chin ens e I Benth. Fl. HongTc. 304 ; leaves broadly ovate 

 obtuse base truncate with 2 large glands beneath at the insertion of the 

 petiole. Wall. Cat. 7846. 



PERAK, Scortechini. SINGAPORE, Wallich. 



The specimens are very imperfect, but agree with the Chinese plant in form and 

 the large tumid yellow glands at the base of the leaf. A similar plant is in the Kevv 

 Herbarium, from Palembang in Java. Wallich's specimens are in leaf only. 



62. GEX.ONXUXK, Roxl>. 



Evergreen glabrous shrubs or small trees ; branches with stipular lines 

 at the nodes. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, pellucid-punctate, entire or 

 serrate ; stipules connate, sheathing, caducous. Flowers small, in. sessile or 

 shortly pedicelled axillary clusters, dioecious, apetalous. MALE FL. Sepals 5, 

 orbicular, concave, imbricate. Disk obsolete. Stamens 10-60, crowded on 

 a convex receptacle, filaments filiform; anthers oblong, dorsifixed ; cells 



