“Salts Sta «ne 
Aporosa. | EUPHORBIACER. 363 
5. A. lanceolata, Thw.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 199.—An ever- 
green tree, all parts glabrous; leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 
acute at the base, on a slender 2-3 lin. long petiole thickened at 
the apex, long but bluntish acuminate, chartaceous, glabrous, 2-24 
in. long, drying somewhat yellowish ; flowers minute, the male 
eatkins very slender, up to an inch long, glabrous, the females very 
short; bracts broad, ovate, glabrous; ovary spindle-shaped, glab- 
rous, the styles very short and teeth-like; berries ovoid, the size 
of a small pea, smooth, 1-2-celled, with as many seeds. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
6. A. microstachya, Muell. Arg.—An evergreen tree (25—30 
+8—12+2—3), all parts glabrous; leaves oblong to elliptically 
ac. acute or obtuse at the base, on a glabrous }-1 in. long 
petiole thickened at og apex, usually bluntish acuminate, 3-5 in 
long, thin-coriaceous, entire or repand, glabrous, in drying turning 
yellow like Symp/ocos ; flowers minute, the male catkins about 4 
it. long, the —_ ones very short, arising from the axils of the 
leaves or from above the scars on the branches; bracts roundish, 
ugaceously awry? pilose-ciliate ; anthers inalpaneitted ovar 
Desde; glabrous, the styles long, 2-cleft and thick-fringed ; 
berries ovoid, the size of a pea, crowned by the rather large stigmas, 
smooth, yellowish, 1-2-celled, with as many seeds. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests from Chittagong and Ava 
down to Tenasserim, up to a ft. elevation —Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. Apr.- 
May.—s.—SS.=Metam. Lat. p 
CYCLOSTEMON, Bl. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx deeply 4-5-parted, imbricate, the 2 
outer sepals larger. Petals none. Disk deplanate-concave, nude 
in the centre or bearing an ovary-rudiment. Stamens 4-40, free, 
surrounding the disk; anthers oblong to ovoid, opening in 2 slits, 
e connective not produced. Ovary 4-2-celled, with 2 ovules in 
each cell, 4-2-suleate ; styles entire, united at the base, broad] 
3-angular-ovate and almost sessile, or narrow and elongated. 
pes more or less fleshy, capa ngtig containing a 4-2-coccous 
almost crustaceous 4-1-seéded capsule _—Trees or rarely shrubs, with 
simple alternate leaves. Stipules deciduous. Flowers often small, 
in cushion-like clusters in the axils of the leaves or above the scars 
on the older branchlets, Fruits often orange-red. : 
* Flowers on about 4 an in. long pedicels ; stigmas sessile, 
, obversely cone ‘triangular. 
Female flowers eS from the stem and branches; leaves 
C. macrophylinm. 
arge, 
Female flowers in a eu ‘of the leaves ; leaves small elegantly 
. C. eglandulosum, 
