TO LOWER SUM. 175 



Breynia angustifolia, Hook. fil. Bangtaphan (Keith). "Fruit 

 scarlet, enlarged sepals purple. 



Distrib. Tenasserim to Perak. 



Breynia, sp. 



A shrub with ovate coriaceous leaves, bluntly acumi- 

 nate, base cuneate, nerves 5 pairs, 2 inches long, 1 inch 

 across. "Petals and ovary green, Male perianth tubular 

 yellow, Capsule globose with broad enlarged sepals, "outer 

 coat of carpels ( ? sepals ) gets yellow colored leaving red 

 endocarp enclosing seeds." 



Bangtaphan, grows in large (bushes) on the shore, 

 (Keith). 



This species is only represented in the herbarium 

 by a spray with rather crushed fruits. Its coriaceous 

 leaves make it very distinct but it is hardly complete 

 enough to name. 



Fluggea microcarpa, Bl. Lankawi (Curtis). 



Distrib Tropical Africa and Asia to Australia. 



Sauropus quadrangularis, Muell.? A poor specimen of a plant 

 from Bangtaphan collected by Dr. Keith is I think this. 

 Distrib. India, Burmah. 



S. pubescens, Hook. fil. A small shrub 3 feet high. Flowers 

 purple in Bamboo jungle, Bangtaphan( Keith). Distrib. 

 India. 



S. parvlfolius, n. sp. 



A slender-branched shrub, about 3 feet tall, with pubes- 

 cent, angled branchlets. Leaves alternate, obovate, ob- 

 tuse, base cuneate, herbaceous, beneath glaucescent, | inch 

 long, \ inch wide, petiole slender, xV inch long, all glabrous, 

 stipules linear, subulate, entire, Male flowers on very short 

 racemes covered with ovate, acute bracts, pedicels filiform, 

 £ inch long. Perianth J inch across or little less, sepals 

 connate, flat with 6 oblong obtuse lobes, pubescent beneath, 

 R. A, Soc„ No. 59, 1911. 



