256 cxxviii. euphorbiacejj. [ Galearia. 
small clusters sub-sessile. Petals narrow glabrous, edges ciliate. 
Stamens glabrous. Female spike shorter and thicker. Fruit 
white, glabrous transversely oblong, rugose when dry. Hab. 
Forests, Singapore (Wallich); Bukit Timah; Garden Jungle; 
Pulau Damar. Johor, Road to Gunong Pulai; Kwala Sembrong 
(Kelsall). 
Wallich’s type has the rachis pubescent. This species has the largest 
leaves of any of our species. 
(5) G. Ridleyi Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. l.c. 235. 
Shrub. Leaves thinly coriaceous oblong-ovate acute or caudate- 
acuminate, base acute; nerves 7 to 8 pairs; 2*25 to 6 in. long, 
•75 to 2 in. wide; petioles slender, *1 in. long. Male racemes very 
slender, minutely puberulous or glabrous. Bracts lanceolate 
minute. Flowers 6 together in a bract, pedicelled. Calyx cup¬ 
shaped, 5-toothed, teeth triangular. Petals 5 oblong-ovate, crested 
in centre. Stamens 10 glabrous. Female racemes as in male, 
but flowers solitary in the bracts. Sepals lanceolate pubescent 
outside, with a hairy crest in the centre inside. Ovary sub-globose- 
ovoid tomentose. Stigmas 2 to 3 sessile bifid, branches filiform. 
Fruit ovoid, -25 in. wide, puberulous. Hab. Johor, Gunong Janeng 
and Simpai (Lake and Kelsall). Selangor, Dusun Tua (Ridley). 
Near G. Wallichii, but the female flowers solitary in the bracts. 
(6) G. Wallichii Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 379; Bennettia Wallichii 
Br. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. 251. 
Small tree, branchlets glabrous or nearly angled. Leaves 
coriaceous oblong-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate cuspidate 
glabrous; nerves 6 pairs elevate beneath; 6 to 7-5 in. long, 1-5 
to 2-5 in. wide; petioles -15 in. long. Male racemes 12 in. long, 
glabrous, rachis angled. Bracts short subulate. Flowers clustered 
on short thick pedicels. Petals ovate blunt or rounded, quite 
glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Fruit -5 in. wide, -I in. long, rugose 
[fide Muller). Hab. Lowland woods, Singapore, Changi (Hullett); 
Bedok. Distrib. Tongkah, Tenasserim. 
(7) G. minor Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. l.c . 234. 
Small tree. Branchlets red-pubescent. Leaves membranous 
or thinly coriaceous ovate-oblong acuminate, base sub-cuneate; 
nerves 6 or 7 pairs, red-pubescent; 4-5 in. long, 175 in. wide; 
petioles *1 in. long, more or less red-pubescent. Male racemes 
very slender, 4 to 12 in. long, sparsely red-pubescent. Bracts 
lanceolate hairy. Flowers 3 in a bract. Pedicels -05 in. long. 
Male flowers; sepals 5, radiating pubescent outside, crested in the 
centre inside. Petals 5, ovate concave, glabrous, centre inside 
crested, tip hooded and bearded. Stamens 10, glabrous. Pistil- 
lode thick, tomentose. Female flowers not seen. Fruiting racemes 
6 in. long. Capsule sub-reniform, -25 in. wide; pedicels *i in. 
long. Hab. Pahang, Pulau Jellam, Pahang River (Ridley). Sungei 
