Bridelia.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 271 
8. B. tomentosa, Blume Bijd. 597 ; branches slender rusty-pubescent 
or glabrate, leaves small thin lanceolate or linear-lanceolate acute or obtuse 
beneath glaucous and finely pubescent, nerves 7-12 pairs nearly straight, 
flowers moncecious in very small axillary and spicate clusters sessile or fem. 
stoutly pedicelled glabrous, calyx-lobes ovate, petals of male retuse, of fem. 
‘rounded or crenate, fruit small globose seated on the unaltered calyx. Muell. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 501; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 367; Gamble Man. Ind. 
Limb. 357 ; Wall. Cat. 7874; Miquel; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 364, and Suppl. 445 ; 
Benth. Fl. Hongk. 309, and Fl. Austral. vi. 120. B. Loureirii, Hook. & Arn. 
Bot. Beech. Voy. 211 (excl. syn. Lour.). B. rhamnoides, Griff. Notul. iv. 
480. P B. lanceefolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 737. B. lancifolia, Ham. in Wall. 
Cat. 7884. Amanoa tomentosa, Baill. Adans. vi. 336.— Wall. Cat. 7944. 
TROPICAL Sikkim HIMALAYA, J. D. H.; Assam, KHastA Mrs., SILHET, and 
southwards to the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, PERAK, PENANG and MaALACCA.—DISTR1B. 
Malay Islands, China, Philippines, N. Australia. 
‘A shrub or small evergreen tree, Leaves 1-3 rarely 4 in., undulate, above 
glabrous or obscurely pubescent, sometimes reddish-glaucous beneath and soon gla- 
brous ; petiole 3-1 in. Clusters of 5—6-fid flowers very small in very slender leafy or 
leafless spikes; bracts minute, villous, stipular if present subulate. Calya jj— in. 
diam. ; lobes acute, bearded below the tip within, Petals variable. Disk of male 
pulvinate, of fem. short annular. Styles 2,5-fid to the middle, short, arms recurved. 
Disk witha conical centre embracing the ovary. Fruit $—j in. diam., blue-black.— 
Mueller has a var. £richadenia from the Australian plant, with the fem. disk hairy 
within; Bentham does not notice this character. According to Roxburgh this 
species is dicecious; Clarke says monecious. 
9. B. pustulata, Hook. f. ; branches very stout pustulate, leaves thinly 
Coriaceous elliptic or oblong acute glabrous above sparsely pubescent 
beneath base usually rounded or cordate, nerves 6-9 pair strong with strong 
rather distant cross-nervules, flowers very many in dense globose axillary 
clusters monoecious glabrous, calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, petals of fem 
very minute, fruit globose stipitate on the unaltered calyx. 
MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib, 4883) and Maingay (1371). PERAK ; at Goping, 
ing’s Collector. . 
Branches woody, bark brown. Leaves 4-7 by 2-4} in., rather abruptly acute or 
acuminate, dark brown on both surfaces, more sooty beneath when dry, base rarely 
acute ; petiole 4-2 in., shrivelled, glabrous, black. Clusters j in. diam. ; bracts 
Minute, rather scarious, short, obtuse or truncate, brown, sparingly hairy. Calyx 
15 in. diam., rigid, not much exceeding the bracts. Ovary ovoid ; styles 2, forked at 
the tip.—I tind no male fl. Maingay describes these as having scale-like emarginate 
petals, a disk lining the calys-tube, and a conical pistillode. 
10. B. dasycalyx, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 369; branches rusty-tomer 
leaves obovate or oblong subacute or acuminate pubescent beneath, base 
obtuse or rounded, nerves 6-10 pair, eross-nervules strong, petiole stout, 
Owers minute numerous in globose axillary clusters, calyx ot fem. tomentose 
unaltered in fruit glabrous within, disk with a ring of bristles round the 
ase of the ovary, petals linear-obovate, fruit ellipsoid. 
Prev and Burma ; in dry forests, Kurz. ve rather thin i 
Branches rather stout, and leaves above dark when dry. Leaves rather thin in 
dasycalyx proper, 5~7 in. long, acuminate, contracted at the rounded base and rather 
glaucous beneath; in var aridicola, Kurz, 3—4 in. long, oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
i . H . 0l j "n eZ »- 
thicker ; nerves nearly straight ; petiole 45-3 3n. Fruit 3-3 me long. Kurz e 
Scribes dasycalyx proper as a climber, and yar. aridicola as more or less erect, 
tt Leaves glabrous. 
ll. B. Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 7882; nearly glabrous, leaves 
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