Agrostistachys. | EUPHORBIACE. 377 
AGROSTISTACHYS, Dalz. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx of males regularly and valvately 3-4. 
bud 
apex and suspended from the connective, unequally 2-valved. 
Ovary-rudiment none. Ovary 3-celled, with a solitary ovule in 
each cell; styles 3, connate at the base and 2-cleft. Capsule 3- 
coccous, dry.—Shrubs or trees, with alternate penninerved leaves 
and paired stipules. Flowers in 6- 3- or 2-stichously bracted 
axillary spikes. Bracts 3-1-flowered, scarious. 
1. A. longifolia, (4. Znudica, var. longifolia, Muell. Arg.).—An 
evergreen shrub(?), all parts glabrous; leaves elongate cuneate- 
oblong, gradually narrowed into the short petiole or narrowly 
decurrent almost to its base, }-1 ft. long, acuminate, rigidly charta- 
ceous, slightly repand-toothed towards the apex, glabrous; young 
flower-spikes arising by 3-1 from the axils of the leaves, the 
scarious distichous bracts appressed-pubescent. 
Has.—Tenasserim or the Andamans. 
ALEURITES, Forst. 
_ Calyx almost irregularly valvately bursting (2-3-parted). Petals 
in both sexes 5, twisted or imbricate in the bud. Disk present in 
both sexes, in the males urceolate or reduced to 5 glands. Stamens 
umerous, on a conical naked torus ; anther 2-rimose, the connective 
not produced. Ovary-rudiment in males absent. Ovary 2-5-celled, 
with a solitary ovule in each cell; styles as many as ovary-cells, 
deeply 2-cleft. Fruits large, drupaceous-capsular, 2-5-coccous, the 
cocci bony and hard. Seeds compressed-globular, without sperma- 
phore, spuriously white-arilled. Albumen oily. Cotyledons large, 
orbicular-ovate, the radicle minute.—Trees, with long-peduncled 3-5- 
plinerved, simple or lobed leaves 2-glanded at the base. Flowers 
monoecious, forming large terminal panicles, the males usually more 
slenderly pedicelled. soe 
1. A, Moluccana, Willd.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 276.—An 
evergreen tree (40—60 + 20—30 + 5—6), the young shoots 
_ Covered with a brownish stellate or almost scaly minute tomentum ; 
bark smooth, olive-coloured ; leaves ovate-lanceolate to ovate, some- 
what truncate and obtuse at the 2-glanded base, on a brownish 
_ Stellate-puberulous petiole 2-24 in. long, acute or acuminate, simple 
or produced into 1 to 3 bluntish or acute lobes, 3-5 in. long, thin- 
