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CXXVIII. EUPH0RBIACE7E. 
[Longetia. 
17 . LONGETIA, Baill. 
Glabrous trees. Leaves opposite coriaceous entire. Flowers 
small axillary apetalous, males in racemose cymes, females few 
in sessile spikes. No disc. Male flowers; sepals 4 to 6, mem¬ 
branous oblong imbricate. Stamens 4, opposite sepals, inserted 
round a conical pistillode, filaments free. Female flowers; sepals 4, 
broad fleshy embracing the ovary imbricate. Ovary 3-celled; 
ovules 2 in a cell. Styles free thick not divided. Capsule of 3 
bivalved cocci, leaving a central column when fallen. Seeds 
oblong with an aril. Species 6, Malay Peninsula and New Caledonia. 
Leaves oblong to obovate, 4 by 2 in., thin coriaceous . (1) L. malayana 
Leaves elliptic, 2 by -75 in., stiff coriaceous . . (2) L. montana 
(1) L. malayana Pax Pflanzenreich, iv. 147, xv. 291. Chorio- 
phyllum malayanum Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1280; Hook. fil. 
F.B.I. v. 344. 
Medium or big tree, buds pubescent. Leaves oblong, linear- 
oblong or obovate blunt narrowed at the base to the stout petiole, 
bright green, midrib prominent; nerves very fine numerous; 
3 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide; petioles *15 in. long. Male cymes 
1 to 1*5 in. long, much branched lax, several together, flowers 
white, -i in. wide, sessile or pedicelled. Stamens as long as petals. 
Female; sepals acute. Capsule -75 in. long, pyriform sub-angled; 
epicarp of valves separating from the crustaceous endocarp. Hab. 
Dry spots, often near the sea; Singapore, Sungei Buluh; Serimbun. 
Johor, Tana Runto. Malacca (Griffith). Pahang, Renchong and 
Pekan (Ridley). Dindings. Penang, common up to 3000 ft. 
altitude, West Hill (Maingay, Curtis). Kedah, Pulau Song Song. 
Distrib. Borneo. 
(2) L. montana Pax, l.c. 291. Choriophyllum montanum 
Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 322. 
A shrub. Leaves opposite coriaceous elliptic, base narrowed, 
tips retuse shining above, paler beneath, 2 in. long, -75 in. wide; 
nerves faint more conspicuous above; petioles -i in. long. Flowers 
yellow. Capsule globose not angled; cocci 3, bivalved, *5 in. 
long. Seed -25 in. long, chestnut-red polished, elliptic, sub-oblique; 
aril bilobed with sub-acute triangular lobes half covering the seed. 
Calyx small, lobes ovate acute. Hab. High mountains; Pahang, 
Gunong Tahan (Robinson and Ridley). 
I have seen no flowers of this plant. 
18 . ANTIDESMA, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire alternate, stipulate. Flowers 
small or minute in slender axillary or terminal simple or panicled 
spikes or racemes, apetalous. Male flowers; calyx 3- to 5-, rarely 
6- to 8-lobed. Disc entire or lobed. Stamens 2 to 5 inserted on 
or round the disc, anthers lunate or didymous, connective thickened, 
