968 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACES. (J. D. Hooker) [Baccaurea. 
brous, leaves oblanceolate or obovate obtusely acuminate base acute, male 
racemes tufted strict quite simple, bracts very minute ovate acute, flowers 
jy in. diam. very sparsely hoary, sepals 4 subequal rounded, stamens 4-6, 
fem. spikes 6-8 in., flowers } in. diam. sessile, sepals 5 nearly glabrous small 
broadly ovate, ovary subglobose hirsute, stigmas 3 very small sessile. B. 
sapida, Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 280. Pierardia courtallensis, Wight Ie. 
t. 1912.—Pierardia, Wall. Cat. 8077. 
TRAVANCORE, Heyne; Anamallay Hills, Wight, Beddome. 
A middling-sized tree; shoots and young petioles sparsely pubescent. Leaves 
5-7 by 2-3 in, thin; nerves 5~7 pairs; petiole 1-14 in. Male racemes in large 
clusters from the trunk and subsolitary on the branches.—An imperfectly known 
plant, considered by Beddome as the same with B. sapida, but differing altogether in 
the male racemes; and in the small sessile fem. flowers, if I am right in referring to 
this a specimen from the Anamallay Hills collected by Beddome, and named by him 
B. macrostachys (and which was lent to me from the Calcutta Herbarium). The 
male flowers described above are from Heyne (in Herb, Wallich) and from Wight. 
Beddome says that this species is most abundant in all moist forests of the Western 
Ghats from Canara to South Travancore; but it is curious that except the Ana- 
mallay specimens of this, neither the Wallichian, Kew or Calcutta Herbaria have a 
specimen of any Baccaurea from the Deccan Peninsula. 
2. B. lanceolata, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 457; glabrous, 
leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate obtusely acuminate base obtuse acute or 
cordate finely reticulate on both surfaces, nerves 10-12 pairs, male racemes 
simple in cauline tufts 6-8 in. slender flexuous glabrous, bracts very minute, 
flowers 4 in. diam., sepals subequal glabrous without tomentose on the 
margins and within, stamens 4 with interposed glands. Hedycarpus lan- 
ceolatus, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 359. H. cauliflora, Hassk. ex Miquel 
in Herb. Kew. Adenocrepis lanceolata, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 82. 
PERAK, King’s Collector. —DIsTRIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
A tree, 20 ft.; bark pale. Leaves 8-12 by 31-6 in., thinly leathery, very pale 
green when dry and rather shining; petiole 14-5 in., very stout; stipules silkily 
pubescent. Male racemes pale; bracts broadly ovate; flowers rather long -pedi- 
celled. Fem. racemes in Borneo specimens 6-10 in. long; towers shortly pedicelled ; 
sepals oblong-spathulate, nearly glabrous; ovary (4-5:celled, Mueller) subglobose, 
strigose ; stigmas sessile, peltate. Fruit in Borneo specimens about 2 in. long, ellipsoid, 
glabrous. Seeds dorsally sulcate. 
3. B. Scortechinii, Hook. f.; branchlets hirsute, leaves shortly 
petioled membranous subrhombic-obovate cuspidate base very acute, nerves 
7-8 pairs very slender, racemes from the branches, male very slender simple 
white tomentose, bracts minute at the base of the flower clusters, fem. racemes 
slender, pedicels slender, sepals long very narrow hoary, ovary ovoid silky 
contracted into a stout style with 3 recurved 2-fid stigmas. 
PERAK, Scortechini. . d 
Leaves terminating short branches, 5-6 in., very thin; petiole 4-1 in., i“? 
midrib sometimes sparsely hairy. Male fl. 3, in. diam., very shortly pedicelles 5 
sepals 4-5; stamens as many; pistillode small. Fem. racemes 4-6 in.; pedicels 
minutely bracteate at the base, jointed about the middle; sepals 4 in. long; ovary 
6-ribbed or grooved when dry. 
4. B. parviflora, Muell. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 462 (in part); 
glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate obtusely acuminate is 
caudate base acute, nerves 4-5 pairs, male racemes very slender hoary brac 
very minute, fem. racemes tufted, pedicels very short, sepals linear-oblos 
nearly glabrous, ovary ovoid silky contracted into a short neck or sty le wi 
