370 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEH. (J. D. Hooker) [Baccaurea. 
nervules faint, base acute cuneate or rounded ; petiole 2-3 in., stout; stipules (as in 
B. Griffithii) oblong, base obliquely auricled, often persistent and recurved. Male 
racemes subsessile or peduncled ; side branchlets incurved, bracteate and 2-bracteolate 
at the tip, flower s5 in. diam.; sepals subequal, rounded; stamens 4; pistillode very 
small, Fem. fl. 3; in. long; sepals oblong, obtuse. Fruit 3-3 in. long or broad, 
bluish green speckled with white.—The confluence of the bract of the male fl. with 
the branchlet of the raceme is as described in B. sumatrana, where however the 
flowers are solitary. In the fem. raceme the bract is suppressed. 
7. B: minor, Hook. f.; branches slender, leaves 2-3 in. ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate caudate-acuminate glabrous base acuminate, nerves 4-5 pairs 
forming strong intra-marginal loops, petiole slender 3-1 as long as the 
blade, racemes on the branches, males 3-1 in. yellow tomentose, male fi. 
ternately sessile on the bracteate tips of the branchlets, fruiting racemes 
slender, rachis ebracteate, fruit globose pubescent smooth, pericarp thin. 
PERAK, King’s Collector, Scortechini. 
A tree, 20-30 ft.; shoots finely pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, yellow when 
dry, greener beneath, strongly reticulate between the nerves. Male racemes 
peduncled, dense-fld.; flowers 2, in., sessile on very short side branches with a 
persistent bract produced beyond these and 2 bracteoles. Fem. racemes 6-10 in., 
slender, brown-tomentose, ebracteate; pedicels very short, jointed and obscurely 
dilated in the middle, as if with a suppressed bract ; sepals } in., oblong, obtuse, tomen- 
tose ; ovary globose, densely tomentose ; stigmas sessile, spreading, 2-fid with recurved 
hardly papillose subulate arms which are tomentose at the back. Fruiting racemes 
on the older wood, 6-10 in. ; pedicels 4 in., jointed about the middle. Fruit 3-} in. 
diam., tipped with 3 minute broad 2-lobed stigmas, pericarp thin with a thin smooth 
endocarp. Seed orbicular, flat. 
8. B. Maingayi, Hook. f.; branchlets hoary-pubescent or glabrous, 
leaves quite glabrous coriaceous long-petioled broadly ovate or oblong 
obtusely cuspidate or acuminate base usually broadly rounded or sub- 
cordate, nerves 7-10 pairs with slender cross-nervules, male racemes from the 
young branches rusty-tomentose, bracts small broad adnate to the short, 
branchlets that bear the flower clusters, fruiting racemes from the older 
wood rather slender, pedicels bracteate above the middle, fruit globose very 
finely rusty-tomentose 3-celled obscurely 3-ridged, styles minute 2-lobed 
depressed, pericarp very thin, cells hairy within, seeds flat, orbicular- ovate. 
Mauacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1415). PERAK, (King’s Collector.) . 
A tree, 25-30 ft. (in Perak), branches woody. Leaves 7-10 by 3-5 in., yellowish 
when dry, above smooth often shining, greenish or red-brown beneath, nerves slender ; 
petiole 4—4 the l-ngth of the blade. Male racemes 2-3 in. ; flowers subsessile, 35 i 
diam.; sepals 4-6, very unequal; stamens 5-6; pistillode obscure. Fruit 3 i. 
diam., like that of B. minor ; epicarp separating from a very thin coriaceous endocsrp, 
the walls of which within, and the membranous septa, are clothed with long lax hairs. 
—This is the only species in which I have observed the cells of the fruit to be (as 0 
so many Aporose) hairy within; but it probably is so in others. 
Series IIT. Male racemes with short branched many-fld. lateral branches ; 
bracts if present on the rachis, or if on the branches caducous. 
* Bracts on the rachis 0, or small ovate or lanceolate much shorter than 
the flower clusters. 
9. B. flaccida, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 459; shoots sparsely 
hairy, leaves glabrous 6-8 in. elliptic-lanceolate oblanceolate or obovate acu 
caudate or acuminate base acute, nerves 6-7 pairs, male racemes 1-2 "b. 
tomentose, bracts ovate shorter than the clusters of flowers, flowers 8U 
