296 cxxvm. euphorbiacejE. [. Plychopyxis . 
Malacca (Griffith, Maingay); Bukit Sadanen (Derry); Panchur. 
Perak near Gunong Pondok (Kunstler). Native name: Medang 
Jurnus. 
(3) P. Kingii Ridl. 
Tree 40 to 50 ft. tall, stem 10 to 15 in. through. Leaves cori¬ 
aceous obovate dark green, glabrous above, base blunt, tip round 
beneath slightly pubescent on the midrib; nerves 9 pairs, elevate 
beneath; 10 in. long, 6 in. wide; petioles puberulous, 1*5 to 2 in. 
long, dilate at top. Fruiting racemes on the branchlets 2 in. long. 
Fruit pear-shaped, pale yellow to orange-yellow puberulous, peri¬ 
carp woody, *25 in. thick, whole fruit 3 in. long, 2 in. through. 
Hab. Mountain forests at 500 to 3000 ft. altitude. Perak, Larut 
(Kunstler). 
(4) P. angustifolia Gage, MSS. 
Tree 60 to 80 ft. tall, stem 2 to 3 ft. through, glabrous except 
inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous lanceolate shortly acute-acuminate 
narrowed to the base; nerves 10 pairs, elevate beneath; 8 to 
9 in. long, 2-5 to 3 in. wide; petioles I in. long, slender, geniculate 
at the tip. Male racemes slender several together axillary pubes¬ 
cent, 3 to 4 in. long. Flowers small in distant fascicles. Pedicels 
*i in. long. Sepals 3, ovate silky. Stamens 70 on a large hemi¬ 
spherical receptacle, glabrous. Fruit pear-shaped, 1-25 in. long, 
•75 to 1 in. through, light green, longitudinally wrinkled, thinly 
velvety on a stout raceme 1*5 in. long. 
54 . CLEIDION, Bl. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate. Male flowers in racemes. 
Calyx globose spreading into 3 or 4 segments. Stamens over 20 
in a globose mass on a conical receptacle; filaments free; anthers 
dorsifixed 4-celled, or the 2 cells transversely didymous on the 
edge of a broad connective. No pistillode. Female flowers 1 or 
2 on a long axillary peduncle. Sepals 3 to 5, imbricate. Ovary 
2- to 3-celled, cells i-ovuled. Styles 2- to 3-fid, arms long filiform. 
Capsule large of 1 to 3 bivalved cocci. Seeds globose. Species 16, 
tropics generally. 
(1) C, javanicum Bl. Bijdr . 613; Hook. fit. F.B.I. v. 444; 
Pax, Pflanzenreich , l.c. 290, Fig. 47. 
Low shrub to medium-sized tree, glabrous. Leaves elliptic 
cuspidate-acuminate, base cuneate, edge dentate or crenulate or 
entire; nerves 5 to 7 pairs; 4-5 to 7-5 in. long, 2-i to 3 in. wide; 
petioles *5 to 1-5 in. long, slender. Male racemes slender, 6 in. 
long, pubescent. Flowers pedicelled in small clusters. Anthers 
4-celled in a compact head. Female flowers 1 or 2 on axillary 
peduncle. Fruit bilobed, 1 to 1*5 in. through. Styles long; 
peduncles 2 in. long. Hab. Rocky forests, Selangor, Batu Caves. 
Penang (Wallich). Setul, Bukit Rajah Wang (Ridley). Disirib. 
Indo-Malaya. 
