CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACE.E. 
272 
[Claoxylon. 
pedicels. Capsule 3-lobed, green, -3 in. through. Seed sub-globose, 
aril red. Hab. Woods. Singapore, Grange Road and Sophia 
Road (Hullett); Bukit Panjang. Malacca, Mt. Ophir. Selangor, 
Ginting Bidai. Perak, Thaiping Hills at 5000 ft. altitude; Batu 
Togoh (Wray). Penang, Glugor. Perlis, Chupeng. Dislrib. Indo- 
Malaya. 
This plant is very variable in the amount of pubescence and the form 
of the leaves. The commonest form has nearly, rarely quite, glabrous leaves 
ovate or oblong very shortly narrowed at the base, nearly entire. The 
Chupeng (Perlis) plant is densely tomentose on both sides of the leaves. 
Another form from Perlis has very strongly toothed rhomboidal leaves. 
(2) C. longifolium Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. (2), 781; 
Hook. Jil. F.B.I. v. 411. 
Shrub or small tree 12 ft. tall, glabrous except young parts 
and inflorescences. Leaves thin elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, 
base acute, toothed or nearly entire; nerves 5 pairs; 4 to 6 in. 
long, 175 to 3 in. wide; petioles 1*5 in. long. Racemes slender 
pubescent, 6 in. long. Male flowers pedicelled tomentose few 
together in tomentose tufts. Sepals ovate tomentose outside. 
Stamens 40 to 50 with long villous scales intermixed. Female 
racemes shorter. Capsule trilobed mealy, bilobed or globose 
when only 1 or 2 seeds are developed, *3 in. through. Hab. Woods 
and forests, a smaller plant than C. indicum. Singapore, Bukit 
Panjang; Bukit Mandai; Pulau Ubin (Hullett). Johor, Gunong 
Pulai. Malacca, Bukit Batu Tiga (Derry). Dindings, Lumut 
Pahang, Gunong Berumbun. Penang (Wallich); Pulau Belong 
(Curtis). Distrib. Java and Sumatra. 
var. brachystachys Hook. fil. l.c. More slender and weaker. 
Leaves thinner; petioles up to 4 in. long. Racemes 2 or 3 in. 
long, with the flowers longer petioled and more scattered; pedicels 
up to -25 in. long. Hab. Woods, Singapore, Pulau Ubin (Hullett); 
Kranji; Chan Chu Kang. Dindings, Pangkor. Penang, Penara 
Bukit (Curtis). 
(3) C. Wallichianum Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. (2), 781. 
Small tree 15.to 20 ft. tall, stem 2 to 4 in. through; branchlets 
hairy. Leaves thin purplish beneath and when young glabrous 
except midrib and 7 pairs of fine nerves beneath, oblanceolate 
or obovate acuminate, long-narrowed to base, sinuate serrulate, 
6 to 10 in. long, 1*2 to 3 in. wide; petioles -5 in. long. Racemes 
1 to 2 in. long, slender with few minute scattered flowers pubescent 
purplish, shortly pedicelled. Stamens about 30. Scales on re¬ 
ceptacle few, minute. Capsule glabrous, *5 in. through, deeply lobed. 
Hab. Hill woods, Perak, Thaiping Hills at 3000 to 4000 ft. altitude 
(Kunstler, Curtis). Penang (Wallich); Richmond Pool (Curtis). 
(4) C. Kingii Hook. fil. MSS. Claoxylon, sp. 13 Hook. fil. 
F.B.I. l.c. 414. 
Shrub 3 to 6 ft. tall, shortly rather sparsely hairy all over. 
