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CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACEiE. 
[Agrostistachys. 
(2) A. borneensis Becc. Nelle Foreste di Borneo, p. 331. A. 
latifolia Pax and Hoffm. Pflanzenreich, iv. 147, l.c. p. 100. A. longi- 
folia var. latifolia Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 407. 
Big spreading shrub 3 to 12 ft. tall, shoots gummy. Leaves 
stiffly coriaceous oblanceolate or lanceolate, shortly acute, base 
long narrowed and decurrent on the petiole, midrib stout; nerves 
about 20 pairs prominent and stout; 16 in. long to base of petiole, 3 
to 4-5 in. wide. Racemes extra-axillary gummy, males 3-5 in. long. 
Flowers 7 or 8 in a short oblong rounded concave coriaceous bract 
•1 in. long. Sepals 2, membranous. Petals 5, rounded retuse 
clawed. Stamens 10. Disc of 5 large glands. Female racemes 
6 in. long or more. Sepals 5, with glandular margins. Disc- 
glands large. Ovary trilobed. Styles short recurved bifid. Hab. 
Dry woods, Dindings, Gunong Tungul; Pulau Rumpia, Sembilan 
isles (Kloss); Perak (Scortechini); Larut (Kunstler). Kedah 
Peak (Robinson). Use : The gum was formerly used in varnishing 
the sheaths and handles of krises. 
(3) A. Gaudichaudii Mull. Arg. in Linncea, xxxiv. 144; in 
DC. Prod. xv. (2), 725. A. filipendula Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 407. 
A. Maingayi Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 406. 
A tree 40 to 60 ft. tall, stem 6 to 8 in. through. Leaves mem¬ 
branous oblanceolate acuminate narrowed to the base; nerves 
12 to 20 pairs slender; 18 in. long, 5 in. wide; petioles 3 in. long, 
winged to the base. Male racemes in bud cylindric-conoid with 
round ciliate bracts, when developed slender pendent racemes 
4 to 7 in. long, with distant ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate blunt, 
ciliate bracts, -i in. long. Flowers 5 or 6 in a bract; pedicels 
longer capillary. Sepals ovate-oblong. Petals obovate thin white. 
Disc-glands 4 or 5, orange colour. Stamens 8 or 9; filaments 
long and slender. No pistillode. Female racemes numerous 
very slender, 4 to 6 in. long. Bracts oblong blunt, i-flowered; 
pedicels -5 to 1 in. long. Sepals 4. Staminodes filiform. Ovary 
3-lobed. Styles entire. Disc orange crenulate. Capsule 3-lobed, 
75 in. long, hoary. Hab. Sandy woods, Singapore, Changi 
(Hullett). Johor, Batu Pahat. Selangor, Batu Caves; Sepang. 
Perak, Thaiping Hills; Chanderiang (Kunstler). Lankawi, Terutau 
(Robinson). Native name : Julong Jantan. 
A. Maingayi, Hook, fil., is a poor specimen of what appears to be this 
species. A. Gaudichaudii, Mull. Arg., is based on a plant collected by 
Gaudichaud in Penang, which I have not seen. Pax, who has seen it, 
identifies with it a specimen of A. filipendula collected by me at the Batu 
caves, and puts A. filipendula under the section Sarcoclinium, in which the 
racemes when in bud are not in the form of cylindric cones, but A. filipendula 
has these cones when the racemes are young, and A. Maingayi and A. fili¬ 
pendula are specimens in that state. 
