BaUotpemium.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) 463 



KHASIA MTS., nit. 3-4000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, Ac. 



A slender bush. Leaves 4-8 by l-2 in., pale green when dry, base acute or 

 rounded, 2-glamlular ; nerves 15-20 pairs, very slender; petiole 1-3 in. Male 

 panicles sometimes 1ft., and glabrous; flowers -^ in. diam., on capillary pedicels; 

 sepals orbicular, hyaline ; disk-glands fleshy ; stamens about 16. Fern, panicles 

 shorter, simpler, much fewer-fld. ; flowers in. diam., longer and stouter pedicelled ; 

 fruitiug pedicels often 1 1 in. ; sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate. Capsule subglobose, 

 in. diam., 3-dymous, smooth. 



5. B. corymbiferum, Hook.f : ; dioecious, branches finely pubescent, 

 leaves long-petioled membranous elliptic-oblong acuminate sinuate-serrate 

 or subentire, male panicles very long ped uncled, flowers in short.corymbi- 

 form clusters. 



EASTERN NEPAL and SIKKIM ; alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke, King. 



Stem 6-8 ft., slender, naked, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 6-8 by 

 2^-3j in. ; base rounded, 2-glandular ; costa pubescent ; nerves 8-10 pairs ; petiole 

 1-3 in., slender. Male panicles much longer than the leaves; peduncle very long, 

 naked; corymbose clusters -f in., 6-10-fld. ; flowers ^ in. diam., pedicelled; sepals 

 56, membranous; disk-glands fleshy ; stamens about 20, filaments sometimes connate. 

 Fruit unknown. 



6. B. malayanum, Hook. f. ; dioecious, leaves long-petioled elliptic- 

 oblong rounded at both ends entire or sinuate-toothed penninerved, male 

 flowers monoecious minute in pubescent axillary and terminal panicles, 

 sepals 5 rounded toothed, stamens 10, anthers hispid, pistillodes 3. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Keiv Distrib. 1455). DISTEIB. Borneo. 



Branches woody, black when dry. Leaves 3-5 by 2-2^ in., coriaceous, brown when 

 dry; nerves 6 8 pair, sometimes obtuse, often glandular ; petiole 1-1^ in. ; stipules of 

 large glands. Panicles much shorter than the leaves, contracted ; bracts minute, subu- 

 late ; male flowers -^ in. diarn.,very shortly pedicelled. Sepals rounded. Disk-glands 

 rounded, villous. Stamens on a convex villous receptacle ; filaments short, subulate ; 

 anther-cells oblong, free except at the top where they meet on the connective. Pis- 

 tillodes subulate, villous. Perhaps a distinct genus, differing from the other described 

 species of Baliospermum in the fewer stamens, convex receptacle, discrete anther- 

 cells, and pistillodes. The female fl. and fruit are unknown. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



BALIOSPERMUM, Griffith, Mishmi Mts., alt. 5-5500 ft. (Kew Distrib. 4741) ; a 

 small tree, leaves 6-8 by 2^3^ in., thin, elliptic-oblong, cuspidately acuminate, quite 

 entire, base triple-nerved, petiole 2-3 in.; male fl. minute, on slender axillary pubes- 

 cent panicles, shortly pedicelled ; calyx subturbinate with 4 short rounded ciliolate 

 lobes; petiole ; anthers 4 half exserted subsessile round a clavate pis; illode, cells 

 oblong, erect, united at the base only. No doubt an uudescribed genus, but without 

 fern. fl. or fruit I hesitate to name it. The habit is somewhat that of a Baliospermum, 

 but the male fl. are widely different. 



65. EPIPRINUS, Griff. 



A small tree or slirub. Leaves alternate, large, long-petioled, entire, 

 penuinerved ; floral crowded, subsessile. Flowers in stout axillary spicif orm 

 androgynous racemes, apetalous ; males crowded, subsessile ; fern, in the 

 lower part, scattered. MALE FL. Calyx globose, membranous, valvately 

 2-4-lobed. Stamens 5-15, filaments free, tips slender abruptly inflexed ; 

 anthers large, oblong, dorsifixed, erect in bud, cells parallel. Pist illode 

 thick , 3-lobed. FKM. FL. on pedicels greatly thickening and lengthening 

 after flowering. . Sepals 5-6, enlarged in fruit, lanceolate, alternating with 

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