DBaccaurea.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 369 
3 large recurved stigmas, fruit small fusiform, pericarp thick. Kurz For. 
Fl. i. 357. B. affinis, Muell. l. c. Pierardia parviflora, Muell, Arg. in 
Linnea xxxii. 89.— Wall. Cat. 7759 B. 
TENASSERIM, Wallich, Helfer. PENANG, Curtis. Perak, King's Collector. 
Matacca, Hervey, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1364, 1368). SINGAPORE, Hullett. 
Distrip. Sumatra (Beccari No. 896). 
A small tree, 15-25 ft. (in Perak) ; branches slender. Leaves variable in form, 
2-5 by 2-31 in., rather thin; petiole 3-1} in.; stipules lanceolate, ciliate and usually 
pubescent on the back. Male racemes from both the old wood and young branches, 
2-4 in. ; flowers ;1, in. diam. ; sepals 4-5, broad; stamens 4-8; pistillode orbicular. 
Fem. racemes in tufts from the old wood (near the root in Perak specimens), 3-6 in. ; 
pedicels bracteate at the base, jointed above the middle; sepals } in. long, obtuse, 
hoary and white within. Fruit 2-3 in. long, fusiform or narrowly ellipsoid, narrowed 
at both ends, 3-celled, pericarp thick corky rugose and obscurely angled when dry, 
endocarp not separable nor thickened, smooth within. Seed } in., oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, with a shallow dorsal groove.—This is Mueller’s Pierardia parviflora, described 
from Wallich’s male specimen. In the Prodromus a Bornean plant (Motley No. 757) 
with broken remains of fem. fl. is united with it, and may or may not be conspecific.— 
Motley's and Barber's No. 80 from Borneo (in Herb. Hook.) may be the same, I 
trust I am right in referring the fusiform fruited species to this, but I have no 
authority for so doing beyond the fact that both sexes are common and found at 
most of the same localities, and that the foliage of the two is uniformly alike. 
Series II. Male racemes with short few-fld. lateral branches to which the 
tact is adnate and produced beyond the sessile flowers as a short claw with 
2 lateral bracteoles. Fem. racemes ebracteate, except at the joint of the 
pedicel. 
5. B. polyneura, Hook. f., shoots petioles and leaves beneath pubes- 
cent, leaves oblong obtuse or subacute base cordate, nerves 10-14 pairs, male 
racemes on the branches very short, flowers sessile on the bracteate tips of 
the short side branches hoary-tomentose, fem. racemes very long ebracteate, 
ovary globose, stigmas subulate recurved, fruit ellipsoid, pericarp rather thin, 
seeds orbicular. 
, Mazacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4910), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1421). PERAK, 
King’s Collector. . 
A tree, 60-80 ft. (in Perak). Leaves 2-6 in., yellowish when dry, coriaccous, 
Sometimes subfalcate, nerves and numerous cross-nervules very strong beneath ; 
petiole rather slender, 3-1} in. Male racemes 1-2 in., clustered ; flowers ;'; in. diam.; 
Sepals 4-5, very unequal; stamens 4-5; pistillode orbicular. Fem. racemes 8-12 in.; 
pedicels 3 in., jointed beneath the flower; sepals } in. long, ovate or oblong, very 
unequal ; stigmas not like those of any other Indian species I have seen. Fruit 
about 1 in, long, erect on the spreading pedicel. Seed obtuse at both ends. 
6. B. macrophylla, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 460; glabrous 
except the pubescent racemes, leaves 6-12 in. long-petioled very coriaceous 
elliptic. or obovate-oblong cuspidate or acuminate, nerves 10-12 pairs very 
. 
strong beneath, stipules large broad coriaceous, male racemes 2-3 in. catkin- 
like, lowers sessile on the bracteate tips of the branchlets, fem. stout, sepals 
small, ovary globose hoary-tomentose, stigmas 3 small broad 2.lobed 
“Pressed, fruit small ellipsoid or globose glabrous 2-celled, seeds flat sub- 
asa 27 testa wrinkled. Pierardia macrophylla, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlvii. 
516. 
PENANG, Phillips PERAK, King’s Collector.—DtsTRIB. Borneo. . . 
A tree, 60-80 Tt. (in Perak), (a climber, Phillips.) Leaves very variable in 
size, smooth dark brown and shining above, rich red-brown beneath when dry, cross- 
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