270 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Bridelia. 
terminal buds only, subulate. Clusters of flowers $ in. diam. ; bracts minute, densely 
imbricate, pubescent, shorter than the flowers. Perianth in. diam., lobes subacute. 
Disk of male flat, of fem. flat raised in the middle into a truncate cone embracing the 
ovary. Styles 2, 2-fid. Fruit nearly 1 in. long, smooth, pericarp thin. 
** Nerves 5-12 pair, rarely more, more or less arched, rarely straight. 
+ Leaves more or less pubescent or tomentose beneath. 
6. B. stipularis, Blume Bijd. 597; subscandent, shoots pubescent or 
tomentose, leaves subcoriaceous elliptic obovate or orbicular-oblong obtuse 
or acute base rounded or cordate shortly tomentose beneath, nerves 6-9 pair 
spreading slender slightly arched, flowers monacious in small axillary 
clusters or long spikes often subtended by long stipular bracts males sessile 
fem. pedicelled pubescent or glabrate, petals orbicular, fruit oblong seated 
on the enlarged calyx. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv ii. 499; Brand. For. 
FI. ii. 449; Kurz For. Fl. ti. 369; Beddome Foresters Man. 201; Miquel 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 364, and Suppl. 445. B. scandens, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 
979; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 736; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 184; Dalz. 4 Gib. 
Bomb. Fl. 233; Wall. Cat. 7878 (excl. E). B.retusa, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 
27, t. 7, f. 99. B. Zollingeri, Miquel l. c. 364. Cluytia scandens, Roxb. Cor. 
Pl. ii. 39, t. 173. O. stipularis, Linn. Mant. 127. Zizyphus racemosus, 
Wall. Cat. 7878 D.—Rheede Hort. Mal. ii. t. 16. 
Throughout the hotter parts of Inp14, along the foot-hills of the Himalaya from 
Kashmir to Bhotan, and southward to Travancor, Malacca and Penang. CEYLON; 
below Alagale, Ferguson.—Di1sTRIB. Malay Islands, Philippines, Tropical Africa. 
A large more or less scandent evergreen shrub, branches straight or flexuous, 
usually fulvous-tomentose. Leaves 2-8 by 4-95 in., margins sometimes undulate oF 
repand, glabrous or puberulous above, rarely acuminate; petiole j-j in. stout, 
tomentose. Clusters of flowers green in often very long and panicled spikes ; bracts 
tomentose ; the stipular leaves are ovate-lanceolate, sometimes much longer than the 
flowers. Calyx 3 in. diam.; lobes lanceolate, acuminate. Petals alike in both sexes. 
Disk of male pulvinate, of fem. urceolate, with a ring of bristles at the base within. 
Styles with long slender arms. Fruit nearly } in. long, obtuse, bluish-black, 
smooth; calyx } in. diam.—I find no specimens of Wallich's Q from Nepal in bis 
herbarium. The only Ceylon specimen that I have seen has very small flowers, it is 
not in fruit. Maingay describes the albumen of the immature fruit as fleshy, a” 
adds that in the mature it probably becomes absorbed; the calyx as olive-yellow 
spotted with red. Wallich’s n. 7878 E, from Herb. Madras, is a different specie; wbic 
I fail to identify in its imperfect state. 
7. B. pubescens, Kurz For. FL ii. 367; an erect tree, branchlets and 
leaves beneath tawny pubescent, leaves membranous elliptic-obovate or 
-oblong acute or acuminate base acute or rounded, nerves 10-12 pair arche 
slender, flowers moncecious in small axillary and spicate clusters sessile al 
shortly pedicelled pubescent, calyx-lobes lanceolate, petals of male broa y 
flabelliform 3-lobed, of fem. obovate fleshy, fruit oblong obtuse seated oD 
the unaltered calyx. Cleistanthus oblongifolius, var. a scaber, Muell. A'I: 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 506 (the Sikkim plant). 
TROPICAL EASTERN NEPAL and SIKKIM ; in hot valleys from the Terai to alt. 
5000 ft., J. D. H., &c. PrGu; on the Eastern slopes, Kurz. 
An evergreen tree, 20-50 ft. Leaves 3-8 by 4-44 in., midrib and nerves post | 
slender ; petiole } in., slender. Clusters of ‘flowers + in. diam. ; bracts short; flowe 
white with a deep yellow disk. Calyx } in. diam. Disk of male pulvinate, of fem. 
codon! enclosing the ovary, mouth laciniate. Fruit i-i in. long, blue-black, AP!“ 
culate. 
