Bischofia.) OXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 345 
B. javanica, Blume Bijd. 1168 ; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
478 ; Brand. For. Fl. 446; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 355; Beddome Sylv. Madr. 
t. 259; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 355; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 363, and 
Suppl. 444. B. trifoliata, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 844. B. Roeperiana, Dene. in 
Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 153; Baill. Gen. Euphorb. t. 26, f. 25-52. B. Cum- 
mgiana & B. Toui, Dene. l. e. B. oblongifolia, Dene. l. c.t. 154. Stylo- 
discus trifoliatus, Bennet Plant. Jav. Rar. 133, t. 29; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl, 235. Microelus Roeperianus, Wight & Arn. in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 
xiv. 298; Wight Ic. t. 1880. Andrachne trifoliata, Roxb. Fi. Ind. iii. 728. 
A. apetala, “Roxb. mss.; Wall. Cat. 7956. Phyllanthus ? gymnanthus, 
Baill. Rec. Obs. Bot. ii. 240 (fid. Muell). 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards, and from Assam southwards, to 
TENassERIM. DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Western Ghats from Canara southwards 
to the Nilgiri Hills. (Absent from Ceylon.)—DisTRrB. Malay and Pacitie Islands. 
A round-headed more or less deciduous-leaved quite glabrous tree, 30-40 ft.; bark 
Smooth. Leaves very variable; petiole 1-6 in.; leaflets 3-5 in., from ovate to oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, repand-toothed, petiolules 3—2 in. Panicles very slender, 
flowers green, males minute on short slender pedicels, fem. 3 in. diam: on stout 
pedicels. Fruit fleshy, on long thickened pedicels, smooth, size of a pea, blue black. 
Seeds smooth, shining, testa splitting longitudinally, dark brown.—Kurz describes 
the fleshy fruit as almost indehiscent and containing a crustaceous 3-4-coccous 
capsule (implying a dehiscence within) Wight, and Hook. Ic. Pl., figure a 3-celled 
shy fruit and 3 seeds with thick testas. Mueller describes a 3-coccous parchment- 
like endocarp, and says nothing of the testa. 
21. APOROSA, Blume. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, rarely sinuate-toothed, penninerved. 
Flowers minute, dioecious, rarely moncecious, apetalous; males most 
minute in axillary catkin-like spikes; fem. sessile or shortly pedicelled in 
very short bracteate spikes. Mar rr. Sepals 4 (3-6), membranous, imbri- 
cate. Stamens 1-5 in the centre of the tlower, filaments capillary ; anthers 
didymous. Pistillode minute or 0. Fem. rr. Sepals of the male, but 
arger. Ovary 2-(rarely 3-)celled; stigmas small, plumose, short, spreading 
Or recurved, simple or 2—4-cleft, rarely elongate and 2-partite; ovules 2 in 
each cell. Fruit globose, ellipsoid or ovoid, bursting irregularly, or partially 
~4-valved from the base upwards, epicarp thin or thick and spongy or 
eshy, endocarp thin, often separable; cells glabrous or hairy within, espe- 
cally on the septum. Seeds oblong or suborbieular, usually plano-convex, 
albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Species 80—40, Tropical Asiatic 
and Malayan. 
Series I. STIPULES SMALL, DECIDUOUS. 
* . . 
Ovary pubescent or tomentose (unknown in A. petiolata). 
E T Leaves more or less tomentose beneath (or glabrous in A. microcalyx). 
emale flowers and fruit sessile. 
1 l. A. villosa, Baill. Gen. Euphorb. 645; branchlets petioles and 
faves beneath softly tomentose, leaves large from broadly oblong to elliptic- 
95ovate obtuse quite entire, bracts of male spikes broadly ovate acute hir- 
sute, fem, fl sessile, ovary villous, stigmas long 2-partite plumose, fruit 
9void apiculate tawny-tomentose. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 471; 
urz For, F1. ii. 36], Scepa villosa, Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot. Ed. 2, 441 (male 
