Exccecaria.'j cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 473 



after flowering. Styles free nearly to the base. Seeds subglobose, smooth. The 

 variations in the size of the fruit and seeds are remarkable. 



2. B. acerifolia, F. Didrichs. Plant. Nonnull Mus. Univ. Hafn. 

 7 ; leaves alternate short-petioled elliptic oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate 

 acuminate serrulate or crenulate, nerves strong beneath arched, spikes ter- 

 minal and axillary bisexual, bracts broadly ovate acute entire 2-3-fld., male 

 sepals lanceolate acuminate entire, fern, broadly ovate acute glandular at 

 the base within. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1222 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 441. E. himalayensis, Muell. Arg^ in Linncea xxxii. 122. Stillingia 

 himalayensis, Klotzsch in Sot. Seise Pr. Waldem. 116, t. 21. Wall. Cat. 

 7969. 



WESTERN and CENTRAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal, Wallich, to Kumaon, alt. 

 5-6000 ft., Edgeworth, Strachey Sc Winterbottom. KHASIA HTS. ; at Nunklow, 

 alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T. 



A small evergreen tree. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., rather membranous, green when 

 dry ; nerves 8-10 pairs ; base acute or subacute ; petiole - in., stout, eglandular. 

 Spikes 1-2 in., slender ; bracts rounded or acuminate ; male fl. sessile; fern, pedicelled. 

 Style short, very stout. Capsule about f in. diam., tridymous, smooth. Seeds 

 globosely ovoid, mottled. The Khasian specimens have much narrower leaves than 

 the Himalayan, and are referred by Mueller to a variety (E. himalayensis, var. /3. 

 cuspidata, Muell. Arg. in Linnasa xxxii. 122, and in DC. 1. c.). 



3. E. holophylla, Kurz For. FL ii. 414; leaves alternate oblong 'to 

 broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate obtusely acuminate quite entire, nerves 

 arched very slender, spikes terminal slender, bracts short broad 1-3-fld. 

 female at the base, bracteoles 0, sepals of male very minute subulate. 



Forests of MAETABAN and UPPER TENASSERIM, Kurz ; on Thoungun, Brandts. 



An evergreen tree. Leaves 3-6 in., thin, quite glabrous rather polished; petiole 

 -? in., eglandular. Spike 2 in. ; male flowers in scattered clusters, sessile ; bracts 

 rounded. I have seen only a small flowering specimen collected by Brandis and 

 named by Kurz, in which the male flowers are as described. 



4. E. rectinervis, Kurz in Herb. Hort. Calcutt. ; branchlets very 

 stout, leaves 5-7 in. coriaceous obovate-oblong abruptly narrowed to an 

 obtuse point, nerves numerous nearly horizontal, petiole stout 1-1^ in. 

 eglandular. Actephila rectinervis, Kurz in Trimens Journ. Sot. xv. (1875) 

 329. 



NICOBAR ISLANDS ; Katchall, Kurz. 



Branchiets as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 3-4 in. broad, very smooth, dull 

 green and leathery when dry ; base acute; nerves 12-15 pair, distinct beneath but 

 slender. Fruiting raceme axillary, young fruit % in. diam. on a stout pedicel in. 

 long. 



** Leaves opposite. 



5. . crenulata, Wight Ic. 1. 1865; leaves shortly petioled from elliptic 

 to lanceolate serrate or crenulate acuminate, spikes axillary and terminal 

 unisexual, bracts 1-fld., male fl. sessile, fern, pedicelled short few-fld., brac- 

 teoles subulate as long as the flower, male sepals oblong irregularly toothed, 

 fern, broadly ovate erose. E. cochiuchmensis, Muell. Arg.' in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 1215; Beddome Forester's Man. 215. E. oppositifolia, Muell. Arg. i/i 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1219 (excl. syn.} (not of Jack] ; Beddome I. c. Salix gla- 

 brata, Herb. Heyne. Microstachys, Wall. Cat. 7977 A. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA; in woods on the Western Ghats from Coorg south- 



