Baecaurea.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 371 
sessile, stamens 6-8, fruiting racemes slender, pedicels bracteate in the 
middle, young fruit ovoid puberulous and hairy contracted into a short 
ame with 3 broad 2-lobed depressed stigmas. Pierardia flaccida, Wall. Cat. 
BURMA, Wallich. TENASSERIM, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4907), Beddome. 
Habit and foliage of B. sapida, ditfering in the shorter very deciduous male 
bracts, and in the bracts of the female not being at the base of the pedicel, but upon 
Yt. —An imperfectly known species. 
10. B. Griffithii, Hook. f.; shoots sparsely stellate pubescent or 
glabrous, leaves long-petioled elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate cuspidately 
acuminate base acute, nerves 6-8 pairs, stipules large oblong, male panicles 
3—4 in., bracts small obtuse much shorter than the peduncles of the many-fld. 
lateral branchlets, fem. racemes short, bracts broadly ovate acute at the 
jointed base of the tomentose pedicels, sepals small, fruit 1-14 in. diam. 
long pedicelled depressed globose rugose, pericarp very thick. 
Matacoa, Griffith. Perak, King’s Collector. 
A tree, 50-60 ft. (in Perak); branches petioles and often leaves above black 
when dry. Leaves 8-12 in., thinly coriaceous, not shining, red-brown or pale 
beneath ; nerves strong, cross-nervules slender, reticulations large; petiole rather 
slender, equalling 1-3 of the blade; stipules J in. black, obtuse, like those of B. ma- 
crophylla. Male racemes much more compound than usual, rachis slender ; lateral 
branches much divided ; bracts often on the branchlets, caducons. Fem. racemes 
2-3 in., rachis stout ; pedicels 3 in., stout; sepals 4^; in., obtuse ; ovary ovoid, densely 
tomentose, narrowed into a very short style with 3 recurved plumose stigmas, 
Pedicel of fruit -2 in., woody, very stout. Fruit sparsely pubescent or glabrate, 
pericarp } in. thick. Seeds not in a state for description.—The male flowers are 
described from a Malaccan specimen of Griffith. 
ll. B. Motleyana, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 461; branches 
robust, shoots petioles and leaves beneath finely tomentose, leaves large 
thinly coriaceous elliptic-oblong subacute, base narrow subcordate, nerves 
12-16 pairs, male racemes on the branches tomentose very slender, bracts on 
the rachis minute lanceolate, lateral branches many-fld. Pierardia Motleyana, 
Muell. Arg. in Flora xlvii. (1864) 516. 
Perak, King’s Collector.—DrsTRrB. Borneo. 
A tree, 60-80 ft. (in Perak); branchlets as thick as the little finger. Leaves 8- 
2 in., smooth above, greenish beneath with rusty pubescence on the nerves; petiole 
-3 in, stout.— Motley describes the fruit as having a thin yellow skin, and the seeds, 
Which are much esteemed, as surrounded by a juicy pulp, pleasant and sweet, but con- 
taining also an intense acid. This species much resembles in foliage and fruit the plate 
(t. iv.) of a Baccaurea in “ Marsden’s Sumatra,” alluded to under the description of the 
Lanseh (Ed. 3, p. 101) as the Rambe. 
** Bracts on the rachis lanceolate, all or the lowest in the racemes longer 
n the clusters of Jlowers. 
.12. B. sapida, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 459 ; leaves glabrous 
elliptic-lanceolate oblanceolate or obovate acuminate base narrowed into the 
petiole, nerves 5-6 pairs, male panicles 2-3 in., bracts lanceolate usually 
much longer than the flowering-clusters hirsute, fem. racemes very long, 
fem. pedicel bracteate at the base, sepals linear-oblong i in. long, ovary 
-celled strigosely tomentose, stigmas sessile broad depressed 2-lobed, fruit 
subglobose or ellipsoid and contracted at the apex, pericarp coriaceous fleshy, 
seeds flat with a smooth testa and thick fleshy covering. Kurz For. F l. ii. 
356, B, macrostachya, Wight Ie. t. 1913. B. propinqua, Muell. Arg. l. c. 
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