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CXXVIII. EUPH0RBIACE.5J. 
[Bridelia. 
oblong, shortly cuspidate or acuminate, base shortly cuneate; 
nerves 9 pairs, midrib and nerves beneath sparsely hairy; 2 to 
4-5 in. long, *75 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles -i in. long. Heads *i in. 
through, flowers small. Bracts pubescent. Sepals ovate pubescent. 
Petals broad oblong crenate very small. Disc flat saucer-shaped 
in male. Style forked at tip. Drupe ovoid acuminate, style 
forming a beak, black, *15 in. long. Hab. Perak, Pondok Tanjong 
(Burn-Murdoch); Ulu Kerling (Kunstler). Penang Hill (Curtis); 
Ayer hitam (Haniff). Disirib, Mergui, Malay islands. 
4. CLEISTANTHUS, Hook. fil. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, usually thinly coriaceous, 
entire. Flowers smaller minute in axillary clusters or spikes, 
sessile or females pedicelled. Calyx 5-lobed valvate. Petals as 
many minute. Disc in male flat or pulvinate, in female conic or 
turbinate. Stamens 5, filaments in a column in centre of disc 
with a pyramidal or 3-lobed pistillode at the tip, free and spreading 
above. Ovary 3-celled usually hairy. Styles 3, bifid; ovules 2 
in a cell. Capsule sub-globose or depressed of 3 cocci, dehiscing. 
Seeds exarillate. Species no, Africa, Indo-Malaya. 
Flower-clusters in the axils of 2-winged bracts (1) C. braeteosus 
Flower-clusters with no 2-winged bracts. 
Flowers elongate, pedicelled; fruits on 
long slender pedicels . . (2) C. pedicellatus 
Flowers sessile or nearly so. 
Leaves glabrous glaucous beneath. 
Leaves ovate abruptly caudate . . (3) C. glaucus 
Leaves lanceolate elongate acuminate. 
Leaves membranous . . . (4) C. 
Leaves coriaceous shining . . (5) C. 
Leaves glabrous not glaucous. 
Calyx pubescent or hairy. 
Leaves membranous greenish yellow (6) C. 
Leaves coriaceous not greenish yellow. 
Petals hairy . . . . (7) C. 
Petals glabrous. 
Leaf-base round . . (8) C. 
Leaf-base acute . . . (9) C. 
Flower-clusters minute on very slender 
panicled branches. Calyx glabrous. 
membranaceus 
nitidus 
flavescens 
hirsutopetalus 
podocarpus 
glandnlosus 
(10) C. malaccensis 
(n> 
(12) 
heterophyllus 
gracilis 
Leaves membranous 
Leaves coriaceous. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate. 
Leaves ovate abruptly caudate 
Flower-clusters not minute nor on panicled 
branchlets. 
Stipules persistent aculeate 
Stipules caducous. 
Leaves rounded at base; nerves not 
inarching, glaucescent beneath (14) C. parvifolius 
(13) C. siamensis 
