370 EUPHORBIACER. [ Briedelia. 
Var. 1, dasycalyx proper: scandent shrub ; leaves much larger 
and of thinner texture, acuminate 
Var. 2, aridicola, Kz.: reduced to a more or less erect small 
shrub; leaves smaller, up to 3 in. long, almost coriaceous, bluntish 
or blunt. 
Haxs.—Frequent in the dry and open forests of Ava, Prome, and Pegu ; var. 
1: in moister and more fertile. places ; var. 2 : on laterite and gravel of the Eng 
forests of Prome.—Fr. C.S.—l.—SS.= Dil. CaS. 
CLEISTANTHUS, Ef. 
Albumen more or less scanty. Cotyledons membranous, variously 
folded.—Trees, with alternate simple leaves. Stipules often paired. 
Flowers small, usually in clusters. 
* Capsules stalked ; young parts and leaves beneath tawny-lepidote- 
ubescent . : ; : : ‘ s : B . C. myrianthus. 
Capsule sessile ; all parts quite glabrous g r é ‘ . C. stenophyllus. 
HB.—Frequent in the tropical forests, especially along choungs, from Pi : 
and Martaban down to Tenasserim and he pom Doteasy "Sau. Pols: fr. co 
iS. Metam. 
RemarKs.—Wood rather heavy, pale brown, soft, rather coarsely fibrous. 
2. C, stenophyllus, Kz.—A tree or shrub (?), all parts glabrous 
leaves linear-lanceolate, acute at the base, on a 2 lin. long petiole, 4 
long and thinly ninate, 3-4 in. long, chartaceous, entire, — 
glabrous, somewhat pale-coloured beneath ; flowers minute, sessile ; - 
