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RUPHORBIACEAE NOVAE E PENINSULA MALAYANA. 948 
Frutex, foliis oppositis exstipulatis. “Ramuli compressi vel subteretes, 
brunnei, 1-4 mm. crassi, plus minusve minute puberuli, et granose rubro- 
glandulosi ; internodia 2°b-10 cm. longa. Lamina membranacéa vel 
tenuiter coriacea, ovata, 7°5-22 cm, longa, 3-11°5 cm. lata, apice caudate 
acuminato, basi cuneata vel subcuneata, margine subintegro vel breviter 
-undulato et minute distanter glanduloso-dentato ; pagina superior obscura 
yel subnitida, glabra, prope basim glandulis _minutis ovatis maculiform- 
ibus munita, costa media et. nervis tenuibus; pagina inferior obscura, 
dense et minute granose rubro-glandulosa, in nervorum axillis fulvo- 
hirsuta, aliter glabra : nervi laterales in costae mediae utraque parte 3-5, 
gracilis, subteres, ‘5-4 c.m. longus, minute puberulus et parce granose 
rubro-glandulosus. Inflorescentiae masculinae racemi graciles, 6 cm. 
in diametro, extus parce minute stellate puberulus, 
glandulosus, intus dense granose rubro-glandulosus, 8-partitus ;,sepala 
subaequalia, ovata; stamina 33, i 
glabra; antherae late ovatae, dorsifixae, connective crasso in parte 
posteriore minutissime glandulose foveolato, loculis parallelis. Inflores- 
centia feminea masculinae similis sed bracteae paulo majores et l- 
floriferae ; calyx ad basim 6-partitus ; sepala subaequalia, 1°5 mm. longa, 
lineara oblonga vel anguste lanceolata, acuminata, extus parce minute 
stellate puberula et granose glandulosa, jntus glabra; ovarium obtuse , 
frigonum, deptessum, 8-coccatum, 2 mm, in diametro, parce | a 
dense granose rubro-glandulosum et, processibus brevissimis subulatis 
indutum ; stylus brevissimus vel obsoletus; stigmata , recurvatay lineare 
oblonga, 2 mm. longa, extus granosé yubro-glandulosa, intus plumose pap- 
illosa. Capsula 3-coceata, 6 mm, alta, glabra, plus bro- 
glandulosa et proeéssibus verruciformibus paree } 
