Baliospermum.] cxxviil buphorbiaceal 313 
(2) B. malayanum Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 463. 
Woody plant. Leaves coriaceous elliptic-oblong, rounded at 
both ends, entire or crenate; nerves 6 to 8 pairs; 3 to 5 di. long, 
2 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles 1 to 1*15 in. long. Panicles pubescent 
axillary 1*5 in. long. Male flowers pubescent. Sepals 5, rounded 
toothed. Disc-glands round villous. Stamens xo on a convex hairy 
receptacle; filaments short; anthers hairy, free except at the top. 
Pistillode villous. Female flowers and fruit unknown. Hab. 
Malacca (Maingay). Distrib. Borneo. 
67 . PIMELEODENDRON, Hassk. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, at the branch ends, 
coriaceous. Flowers small in simple or branched racemes, axillary 
or lateral below the leaves, apetalous. Male flowers saucer-shaped 
of 2 very short and broad coriaceous appressed imbricating lobes. 
No disc. Stamens 12 to 15 in one series; filaments short, fleshy; 
anthers terminal, broad truncate, cells widely diverging. Female 
raceme short few-flowered. Calyx 2- to 4-lobed. Ovary sub-cylindric, 
2-celled, 1 cell empty. Stigma thick pulvinate sessile. Fruit 
1- seeded. Species 2 or 3, Malayan. 
(1) P. Griffithianum Benih. Gen. PI. iii. 331; Hook. fil. 
F.B.I. v. 468. 
Tree. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-ovate cuspidate or acuminate, 
sinuate serrate, base narrowed; nerves 5 pairs slender; 3*5 to 4 in. 
long, 2 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles slender thickened at tip, 1*5 in. 
long. Racemes fascicled below the leaves, 1-5 in. long. Bracts 
small ovate acute; pedicels *2 in. long. Perianth yellow, *25 in. 
wide. Fruit unknown. Hab. Malacca (Griffith, Maingay). 
Selangor, Petaling; Sempang, Semangkok Pass (Ridley). 
One of Maingay’s specimens has 9 in. long stout racemes with several 
distant branches. My Sempang plant has 9 stamens in 2 rows. 
68 . HOMALANTHUS, A. Juss. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate entire broad thin. Flowers 
small apetalous, in terminal racemes. Males many in a bract, 
numerous at the top of the raceme. Females 1 in a bract, few at base 
of the raceme. Male flowers; calyx of 2 appressed sepals; no disc. 
Stamens 6 to 50; filaments very short; anthers exsert, cells 
divaricate, 2-valved at the top. Female flowers; calyx terete 
2- to 3-lobed. Ovary 2- to 3-celled. Styles linear diverging entire. 
Capsule bilobed fleshy indehiscent. Seed ovoid with a fleshy aril. 
Species 7 or 8, Malay Peninsula and islands, Polynesia, Australia. 
(1) H. populifolius Grah. New Edinb. Journ. Set. 1827; Bot. 
Mag. t. 2780; Hook fil. F.B.I. v. 469. 
A small tree about 15 to 20 ft. tall. Leaves rhombic or tri¬ 
angular-ovate acuminate membranous dull green paler or glaucous 
beneath, quite glabrous; nerves 10 pairs slender; 2 to 6 in. long. 
