372 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker) [Baccaurea. 
463. Pierardia sapida, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 254; Wall. Cat. 8072.— Wall. Cat. 
7758, 7761, 8071. 
Base of the Eastern HIMALAYA, J. D. H., Clarke. Assam, Hamilton. SILHET, 
Burma, the MALAY PENINSULA and ANDAMAN ISLANDS, wild or cultivated.— 
Disrris. Malay Archipelago. . 
An evergreen tree, 40-50 ft., shoots substrigosely pubescent. Leaves 4-8 in., 
rather membranous; petiole 1-14 in. Male racemes usually on the branches or 
trunk, fem. lower down, or on the trunk, both tomentose. Male fl. about 1. 
diam., on very short lateral branches; sepals 4-5, unequal; stamens 4-8. Fem. 
sepals j-j in. long. Fruit 3-1 in. diam., yellow, puberulous ; endocarp not separable, 
smooth within. Seeds orbicular, fleshy coat rose-coloured.—1 find no characters 
whereby to distinguish B. propinqua from sapida, which appears to be a commonly 
cultivated tree in India, but to be also truly wild in the Sikkim Terai (Clarke) and 
Khasia Hills. The detached pyriform fruits distributed by Wallich with his No. 8071 
do not, I think, belong to this species. 
13. B. brevipes, Hook. f.; branchlets robust and leaves beneath 
pubescent or tomentose, leaves large thinly coriaceous obovate-oblong nar- 
rowed into the petiole subacute or acuminate, nerves about 12 pairs very 
strong beneath ascending and slightly arched, male racemes on the branches 
very long and slender hoary-pubescent, bracts linear-lanceolate lower longer 
than the clusters of flowers, fem. spikes from the trunk and branches stout 
tomentose, flowers sessile, sepals 3 in., ovary ovoid villously strigose, stigmas 
short broad depressed 2-lobed, fruit subglobose 3-celled, seed compressed 
beaked smooth. 
PERAK, King’s Collector, Wray, Scortechini. MaALAoCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 
4908, 4909), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1366, 1367, 1405).—DIsTRIB. Borneo. 
A small tree (in Perak); branchlets as thick as the little finger. Leaves 8-14 by 
4-6 in., from sparsely pilose with scattered hairs to tomentose beneath; base acute 
obtuse or cordate ; petiole 1-3 in., very stout. Male racemes with short lateral 2 
3-fid. branches ; flowers 54, in. diam ; sepals 4-5, unequal; stamens 4-8. Fem. spikes 
6-10 in., stout. Fruit j-l in. diam., pubescent, cream-coloured, or waxy white. 
Seeds }-} in. long, contracted rather suddenly into a beak ; aril light blue. 
*** Bracts large, broad, concave, enclosing the clusters of flowers, 
deciduous. 
14. B. bracteata, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 466; shoots 
petioles nerves beneath and spikes rusty-pubescent or tomentose, leaves 
long-petioled coriaceous elliptic-oblong -ovate or -lanceolate acuminate or 
acute, with 5-7 pairs of strong nerves and black dots beneath, inflorescence 
of both sexes on the young branches 1-3 in., bracts of male panicle broadly 
ovate concave exceeding the clusters of flowers, ovary villous ovoid contracte 
into a short style with 3 suberect 2-fid stigmas, fruit globose, pericarp very 
thick 3-valved. Pierardia dulcis, Wall. Cat. 8075 (not of Jack). Sapium 
sterculiacum, Wall. Cat. 7974.— Wall. Cat. 7824. 
PERAK, Scortechini, King’s Collector, &c. Matacca and SINGAPORE, Griffith 
(Kew Distrib. 4900, 4899), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1362, 1390).—DISTBIB- 
Borneo, 
A tree, 30-60 ft. in Perak; branches terete, smooth, red brown. Leaves from 
3 by 1-1} in. to 7 by 4 in., base rounded or acute, dark brown above when dry. 
usually reddish beneath with black glands, and strong nerves; petiole equalling + t 
the length of the blade. Male panicles 2-3 in. ; branches rather long and distant, i 
first sheathed in the often opposite imbricating bracts, which are 4—4 in. long obten . 
and tomentose. Male flowers 4',—4 in. diam.; sepals 3-5, oblong, very unequa ; 
stamens 4-6; pistillode columnar. Fem. racemes lax-fid. ; sepals } in. long, linea 
