Scortechinia.] CXXXV. EuPHoRBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 367 
shiny above; nerves 6-8 pair, arched, anastomosing, slightly raised above, more 
so beneath; petiole 3-1 in. ; stipules small, lanceolate. Panicles shortly peduncled, 
hoary, 2-6 in. long, branches spreading. Male fl. 4, in. diam. ; sepals tumid on the 
back. Stamens included; anthers basifixed. Fruit erect, 1-1} in. long, stoutly very 
shortly pedicelled, clothed with an appressed white tomentum. Seed rounded at 
both ends, pendulous from a spermaphore that is longitudinally attached to the walls 
of the cavity from its apex for } way down, eventually free below; albumen forming 
a dense covering of the embryo.—The spermaphore consists of the remains of the axis 
and septa, and bears at the top opposite to the insertion of the seed (that next to the 
wall of the capsule) a minute ovule. The position of the undeveloped ovule may 
indicate its having been solitary in a normally 2-(or 3-)celled ovary, of which the 
remains of the septa and axis form the column from which the seed is suspended. 
2. S. nicobarica, Hook. f.; leaves with 2 prominent glands above at 
the insertion of the petiole. 
NICOBAR ISLANDS; Novara Expedition (in Herb. Hort. Bot. Calcutt.). 
Leaf elliptic, 6 by 3 in., sinuate serrate, nerves about 8 pair; petiole 1} in., 
slender. Capsule 1 in., as in S. Kingii.—I am indebted to Dr. King for a fruit and 
leaf of this very distinct species. 
25. BACCAUREA, Jour. 
Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, entire, rarely crenate-serrate, penni- 
nerved, Flowers in simple or compound spiciform racemes or racemiform 
panicles, dicecious, rarely moncecious, apetalous ; males usaally very minute, 
hoary or tomentose. Disk 0, or of obscure glands in the male fl. Marr rr. 
Sepals 4-5, usually unequal, imbricate. Stamens 4-8, filaments short free; 
anthers small, didymous. Pistillode pubescent, orbicular, sessile or sti- 
pitate, rarely an irregular cleft column. FEM. FL. Sepals 4-6, linear or 
oblong, much larger than in the male. Ovary 2-5-celled, ovoid or globose ; 
stigmas 2-5, small, sessile, free or connate into a short style, 2-lobed or 
-cleft, arms broad or subulate, papillose, rarely united into one peltate 
stigma; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit ovoid globose obovoid or fusiform, 2—4- 
celled; pericarp thick or thin, coriaceous crustaceous or woody, tardily 
loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds broad, usually dorsally compressed or flat- 
tened, testa with a thick fleshy coat (aril P); albumen fleshy or hard; coty- 
ledons broad, flat.—Species about 30, Tropical Asiatic, African and 
olynesian. 
The species of this genus are most difficult of discrimination, owing to the 
necessity of having for this purpose flowers of both sexes and also ripe fruit, and 
cause in foliage very different species resemble one another. The male in 2 
rescence appears to me to afford the best sectional characters, but it may have to 
yield to earpological ones, when the fruits are better known. The male flowers of 
individual species are very inconstant as to number and form of sepals, and number 
Of stamens. The disk-glands, when present, are too minute and, I think, variable as 
to presence or absence, to afford aid in the Indian species; nor do I find the 
anthers truly extrorse in any, the slits being more or less lateral when not truly in- 
irorse, In this as in so many other genera, I am rarely able to identify the Indian 
Species with the Malayan, from want of good specimens of the latter. Iam greatly 
indebted to Dr. King for the loan of the extensive collection of Baccaure@ of the 
Calentta Herbarium, without which I could not have completed even this imperfect 
sketch of the Indian species. 
la Series I. Male racemes simple or nearly so; bracts very minute at the 
se of the simple clusters of flowers. 
l. B. courtallensis, Muell Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 459; gla- 
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