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CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACE^. 
[A ntidesma. 
racemed or panicled 2 or 3 in. long, tomentose; flowers 
shortly pedicelled. Calyx tomentose with 5 short ovate lobes. 
Disc pubescent. Stamens 5, Female spikes solitary, 3 in. long. 
Flowers scattered pedicelled. Calyx cupular 5-lobed, hairy. 
Ovary glabrous. Stigmas short. Drupe sub-globose, *i in. long; 
pedicel as long red. Hab. Common in lowland woods. Johor, 
Tebing Tinggi; Serom; Kwala Sembrong (Kelsall). Malacca 
(Griffith); Merlimau (Derry). Pahang, Pekan. Perak, Larut (Kun- 
stler); Batu Togoh (Wray). Province Wellesley, Bukit Juru; Tasek 
Gelugur, Kedah Peak; Alor Sta. Penang (Porter, Kunstler) ; 
Balik Pulau. Adang group, Rawei island. Lankawi, Burau Bay. 
var. oblanceolata Ridl. Leaves thin oblanceolate, 10 in. long, 
3*5 in. wide, Perak, Goping (Kunstler). 
var. rigida, leaves stiff; nerves sunk above, female spikes 
panicled. Hab. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga. Selangor, Kwala 
Lumpur (Ridley). Distrib. India, Siam, Malay isles. Native 
names : Gunchian or Gunchiak. 
(18) A. cuspidatum Mull. Arg. Linncea, xxxiv. 65; DC. Prod. 
xv. (2), 252; Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 360. A. rotatum Mull. Arg. 
DC. Prod. l.c. 256. 
Tree. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous oblong- 
lanceolate caudate-acuminate, base narrowed blunt glabrous shining 
on both sides; nerves 8 pairs; 6 to 9 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide; 
petioles -5 in. long, pubescent. Stipules short ovate-lanceolate 
subulate. Spikes racemose. Males 6 or more in a raceme, slender. 
Flowers scattered pedicelled, whole raceme 3*5 to 6 in. long, spikes 
3-5 in. long or less. Bracts as long as the flowers. Sepals 4 to 5, 
villous round. Disc lobed. Stamens 3. Female spikes usually 
solitary, -4 in. long. Flowers pedicelled tomentose. Sepals lan¬ 
ceolate acute hairy. Ovary glabrous. Fruit pedicelled obliquely 
round ellipsoid; stigmas sub-lateral, -2 in. long. Hab. Lowland 
woods, common, Singapore, Changi; Bukit Timah; Garden Jungle. 
Johor, Tempayan River. Pahang, Temerloh; Telom. Malacca, 
Ching (Griffith); Merlimau (Goodenough); Brisu (Derry). Negri 
Sembilan, Gunong Berumbun (Cantley); Bukit Tangga. Selangor, 
Ulu Selangor and Bukit Bintang (Goodenough). Perak, Relau 
Tujor (Wray); Thaiping Waterfall (Wray). Penang, Balik Pulau 
and the Hill. Kedah, Yan; Alor Sta. Perlis, Chupeng (Ridley). 
var. leiodiscus. Male flowers rather smaller and disc glabrous. 
Otherwise quite resembling A. cuspidatum. Hab. Perak, Larut 
(Kunstler, Scortechini). Native name: Petaling Tujok. 
A. rotatum Mull. Arg. DC. Prod. xv. (2), 256 is based upon a specimen in 
Leman’s herbarium from Griffith’s collection. Pax in the Pflanzenreich, 
p. 117, keeps the species separate, giving Griffith’s 4923 as A. rotatum. A 
plant from Leman in the Kew herbarium is from Griffith’s 4923. Under 
A. cuspidatum he quotes Leman, Maingay 1341, and Griffith, Ching, but 
4923 is the plant from Ching. Pax separates A. rotatum from cuspidatum, 
and puts it in another section on account of the flowers being different, but 
neither the specimens nor his description show any real difference. I concur 
with Hooker in keeping all under A. cuspidatum. 
