468 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Dalecliampia. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, Wight, Gardner ; at Conoor, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. 



An evergreen twiner ; shoots pubescent. Leaves 2-4 in., base cordate 3-5-pli- 

 nerved, segments lanceolate; petiole 1-2 in. Peduncle spuriously axillary, 2-3 in., 

 puberulous. I do not venture to follow Mueller in regarding this plant, which is 

 confined to considerable elevations in the Nilghiri Hills, as the same with the D. scan- 

 dens, which is found nowhere out of South America. Specimens in fruit are wanted 

 to confirm such an identification. 



3. X>. Kurzii, HooTc.f. ; leaves 3-lobed to or below the middle sparsely 

 pubescent beneath, lobes lanceolate subserrate lateral erect, peduncles 

 equalling the leaves, involucral bracts 3-lobed entire, sepals of fern. 8-10 

 filiform hispid pinnatifid segments filiform. D. scandens, Kurz For. Fl. 

 400 (not of Linn.}. 



RANGOON; at Pegu, M'Clelland, Kurz. TENASSEEIM ; at Moulmain, Loll. 



Stems and petioles sparsely softly hairy. Leaves 4-5 in., base cordate, lobes 

 acuminate ; petiole shorter than the blade ; stipules oblong-lanceolate. Peduncles 

 3-5 in. ; involucral bracts like the leaves, with narrow or broad lobes. Male sepals 

 4 ; fern. 5-8. Ovary scabrid, style | in. long. Fruiting calyx 1 in. diam. Capsule 

 of 4 globose cocci. Seeds globose, mottled. 



71. FIIVXELEODENimON, Hassle. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, crowded at the ends of the 

 branches, quite entire, coriaceous, penninerved ; petioles very unequal, 

 tumid at the top, Flowers in simple or branched lateral and very short 

 axillary racemes, dioecious P, apetalous ; pedicels rigid; bracts caducous. 

 MALE FL. Calyx saucer-shaped, of 2 very short broad coriaceous compressed 

 and appressed imbricating lobes. Disk 0. Stamens 12-15, in one series 

 within the margin of the perianth, filaments short, fleshy ; anthers terminal, 

 broad, truncate; cells adnate, widely diverging, extrorse. Pistillode 0. 

 FEM. FL. and fruit unknown. Species 2 or 3, Malayan. 



P. Griffithianus, JBenth. in G-en. Plant, iii. 331 ; glabrous, leaves 

 long-petioled elliptic-ovate .caudate-acuminate sinuate-serrate, base acute. 

 Stomatocalyx Grimthianus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1142 in part. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1400). 



Branches robust, woody. Leaves 35 in., dark brown when dry, nerves 45 pairs 

 arched ; petiole ^-2 in., very slender, terete, swollen at the top. Racemes solitary or 

 crowded, black when dry, ^-f in., rachis and pedicels very stout; bracts, small, broad, 

 obtuse. Perianth in. diam., coriaceous or fleshy, lips very short. Stamens shorter 

 than the calyx-lobes. Bentham rightly points out that the Bornean plant of Barber 

 (also Beccari, No. 293) is a different species j it has more obovate and more obtuse 

 entire leaves with more nerves. 



71*. HOMALANTHUS, A. Juss. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, broad, entire, often glau- 

 cous or hoary beneath, penninerved; stipules deciduous. Flowers small, 

 monoecious, in terminal androgynous racemes, apetalous ; males many in 

 each bract ; fern, at the base of the raceme, few or solitary in each bract, 

 or solitary at the ends of the branches. DisTc 0. MALE FL. Calyx short, 

 compressed, of two flat appressed sepals. Stamens 6-50, rarely fewer, 

 filaments very short ; anthers exserted, cells short divaricate 2-valved at 

 the top. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Calyx terete, 2-3-fld. Ovary 2-3-celled ; 



