Baliospermum.] cxxxv. evPHonBrAcEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 463 
KnasrA Mrs., alt. 3-4000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, &c. 
A slender bush. Leaves 4-8 by 1-2} in., pale green when dry, base acute or 
rounded, 2-glandular; nerves 15-20 pairs, very slender; petiole 1-3 in. Male 
panicles sometimes 1 ft., and glabrous; flowers +; in. diam., on capillary pedicels ; 
sepals orbicular, hyaline; disk-glands fleshy; stamens about 16. Fem. panicles 
shorter, simpler, much fewer-fld.; flowers i in. diam., longer and stouter pedicelled ; 
fruiting pedicels often 1-14 in.; sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate. Capsule subglobose, 
3 in. diam., 3-dymous, smooth. 
9. B. corymbiferum, Hook. f.; dicecious, branches finely pubescent, 
leaves long-petioled membranous elliptic-oblong acuminate sinuate-serrate 
or subentire, male panicles very long peduncled, flowers in short corymbi- 
form clusters, 
EASTERN NEPAL and SIKKIM ; alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke, King. 
Stem 6-8 ft., slender, naked, simple or sparingly branched. eaves 6-8 by 
23-3) in. ; base rounded, 2-glandular ; costa pubescent ; nerves 8-10 pairs; petiole 
1-3 in., slender. Male panicles much longer than the leaves; peduncle very long, 
naked ; corymbose clusters 1—2 in., 6-10-fld. ; flowers 4 in. diam., pedicelled ; sepals 
9-6, membranous ; disk-glands fleshy ; stamens about 20, filaments sometimes connate. 
Fruit unknown. 
6. B. malayanum, Hook. f.; diccious, leaves long-petioled elliptic- 
oblong rounded at both ends entire or sinuate-toothed penninerved, male 
owers monoecious minute in pubescent axillary and terminal panicles, 
sepals 5 rounded toothed, stamens 10, anthers hispid, pistillodes 3. 
Matacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1455).—DisTRIB. Borneo. 
Branches woody, black when dry. Leaves 3-5 by 2-2} in., coriaceous, brown when 
dry ; nerves 6-8 pair, sometimes obtuse, often glandular; petiole 1-13 in. ; stipules of 
arge glands. Panicles much shorter than the leaves, contracted ; bracts minute, subu- 
Ate; male flowers Ji. in. diam.,very shortly pedicelled. Sepals rounded. Disk-glands 
rounded, villous. S¢amens on a convex villous receptacle; filaments short, subulate ; 
anther-cells oblong, free except at the top where they meet on the connective. Pis- 
til lodes subulate, villous.—Perhaps a distinct genus, differing from the other described 
Species of Baliospermum in the fewer stamens, convex receptacle, discrete anther- 
cells, and pistillodes. ‘The female fl. and fruit are unknown. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
BALIOSPERMUM, Griffith, Mishmi Mts., alt. 5-5500 ft. (Kew Distrib. 4741) ; a 
small tree, leaves 6-8 by 21-31 in., thin, elliptic-oblong, euspidately acuminate, quite 
entire, base triple-nerved, petiole 2-3 in. ; male fl. minute, on slender axillary pubes- 
cent panicles, shortly pedicelled ; calyx subturbinate with 4 short rounded ciliolute 
lobes ; petiole O; anthers 4 half exserted subsessile round a clavate pistillode, cells 
oblong, erect, united at the base only.—No doubt an undescribed genus, but without 
fem. fl. or fruit I hesitate to name it. The habit is somewhat that of a Baliospermum, 
but the male fl, are widely different. 
65. BPIPRINUS, Grif. 
A small tree or shrub. Leaves alternate, large, long-petioled, entire, 
Penuinerved ; floral crowded, subsessile. Flowersin stout axillary spiciform 
androgynous racemes, apetalous; males crowded, subsessile; fem. in the 
ower part, scattered. MALE FL. Calyx globose, membranous, valvately 
74-lobed. Stamens 5-15, filaments free, tips slender abruptly inflexed ; 
i thers large, oblong, dorsifixed, erect in bud, cells parallel. Pistillode 
lex, 3-lobed. Fem. FL. on pedicels greatly thickening and lengthening 
r flowering. Sepals 5-6, enlarged in fruit, lanceolate, alternating with 
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