Coslodiscus.] 
CXXV1II. EUPHORBIACE^. 
28l 
short spines; style terete with 3 fimbriate arms. Seeds globose 
ovoid. Hab. Woods, Selangor, Dusun tua (Ridley). Perak (Scor- 
techini, Kunstler). Kedah, Gerun near Kedah Peak (Robinsonj. 
Langkawi (Curtis). 
46. BLUMEODENDRON, Kurz. 
Trees. Leaves alternate or opposite or whorled coriaceous, 
spikes and panicles axillary solitary or fascicled. Females shorter 
than males. Flowers apetalous, in bud globose. Male flowers; 
calyx ellipsoid, 3- to 4-cleft. Stamens 14 to 35, free, filaments 
long; anthers globose; connectives broad. Receptacle raised 
pulvinate glandular-lobed among the filaments. No pistillode. 
Female flowers; sepals 3 to 5. Disc annular. Ovary 2- or 3- 
celled; styles linear-subulate papillose within, connate at base. 
Capsule large. Seeds large. 
Spikes short fascicled. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous elliptic, 7 in. long . . (1) B. concolor 
Leaves stiffly coriaceous ovate blunt, 8 in. long . (2) B. Kurzii 
Panicles elongate; leaves elliptic cuspidate coriaceous, 
4 in. long.(3) B. vemicosum 
(1) B. concolor Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. l.c. 244. 
Tree, glabrous. Leaves opposite thinly coriaceous shining 
green, ovate cuspidate acuminate, base cuneate entire with 2 to 4 
minute ovate glands, trinerved with 3 pairs of nerves from the 
midrib and 2 marginal ones from the base, nervules transverse; 
7 in. long, 3-25 in. wide; petioles slender dilate at tip, 3 in. long. 
Male flowers numerous on racemes -25 in. long with short thick 
peduncles articulate with the pedicels. Sepals ovate deflexed. 
Stamens numerous, anther-cells oblong. Female flowers fascicled 
at the nodes; pedicels *5 in. long from tubercles. Buds globose. 
Sepals 3, widely ovate. Disc hemispherically turbinate fleshy. 
Stamens 22 to 25. Hab. Forests. Rare. Dindings, Pangkor 
(Curtis), female. Lankawi, Gunong Raya (Haniff). 
Allied to B. Kurzii, but the leaves are much thinner and transverse 
nervules fewer and the stamens 22 to 25. 
(2) B. Kurzii /. J. Smith, Mededeel , Dept. Landbouw. x. 463. 
Mallotus Kurzii Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 427. 
Tree 50 to 70 ft. tall, stem 10 to 15 ft. through, glabrous. Leaves 
stiffly coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, base round, tip shortly blunt 
cuspidate; nerves prominent, 6 pairs, transverse nervules very 
many close; 8 in. long, 6 in. wide; petioles 1*5 to 2 in. long, 
thickened at both ends. Male flowers clustered in short cymes 
over -2 in. long. Calyx globose, *1 in. long, 2- or 3-valved. Re¬ 
ceptacle convex covered with tumid glands. Stamens 20 to 30, 
filaments rather long; anthers nearly orbicular, connectives broad. 
Female flowers unknown. Capsule globose, 2- to 3-coccous, 1 to 
1*5 in. wide, brown-glossy, fibrous woody. Seeds purple covered 
