CXV. EUPHOBBIACEiE. 595 



petioles ^-| in. long; stipules lanceolate, acute, soon falling. Male 

 FLOWJ3RS sessile; spikes 1-1| in. long, dense. Sepals usually 4, ovate- 

 oblong, obtu.^e, ^ in. long, ciliate. Stamens 2-3; tilameuts -^^ in. 

 long; antliers subglobose. Female flowers in very short, bairj^, often 

 clustered racemes ; pedicels sbort. Sepals ovate, subacute, y^ in. long. 

 Ovary flask-sbaped, shortly pedicellate, hairy ; style short, with 3 large 

 laciniate curved stigmas -^ in. long. Fruit | in. or slightly more in 

 diam., quite globose, pointed with the style. Seeds plano-convex, 

 broadly ovate, subacute, | in. long and as broad as long. Fl. B. I, v. 5, 

 p. 349; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 2y() ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 40; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p."307 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 370. Scepii Liii(Uei/ana, 'Wight, Icon. v. 2, part 1, p. 5, t. 361 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs, p. 236. — Flowers : Dec.-Feh. VERisr. Salt. 



Coiumon in the evergreen forests of the Konkan and N. Kanara, Talbot. Kanaiia: 

 comnioa, i?<7c/;/e, 1364 ! ; Supa on the Kala naddi, Bifchie, l'.i{]4:\ ; Arbail Gh;lt (N. 

 Kanara), Woodrow. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



17. BACCAUREA, Lour. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, entire (rarely crenate-serrate), 

 penninerved. Flowers dioecious (rarely monoecious), in simple or panicled 

 spikes or racemes. Perianth simple, the male flowers usually very small. 

 Male flowees : Sepals 4-5, usually unequal, imbricate. Petals 0. 

 Disk or obscure and glandular. Stamens 4-8 ; filaments short, free ; 

 anthers small, didymous. Pistillode pubescent, orbicular, sessile or 

 stipitate, rarely an irregular cleft column. Female flowers : Sepals 

 4-6, linear or oblong, nmch larger than in the male. Petals 0. Disk 0. 

 Ovary ovoid or globose, 2-5-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; stigmas 2-5, 

 small, sessile, free or connate into a short style, each 2-lobed or 2-cleft, 

 the arms wide or narrow, papillose, rarely united into one peltate 

 stigma. Fruit a tardily dehiscent ovoid globose obovoid or fusiform 

 2-4-celled capsule ; pericarp thick or thin, coriaceous, crustaceous or 

 woody. Seeds broad, usually dorsally compressed or flattened, covered 

 by a thick fleshy aril ; albumen fleshy or hard ; cotyledons broad, flat. 

 — Distrib. Species about 30, mostly Indo-Malayan, a few in Tropical 

 Africa and Polynesia. 



1. Baccaurea courtallensis, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. v, 15, 

 part 2 (1860) p. 459. A large or middle-sized tree; young parts 

 minutely pubescent. Leaves 3-8 by l|-3 in., elliptic, shortly acumi- 

 nate, glabrous, base usually acute; petioles ^-"^k in. long; stipules 

 ovate, deciduous. Male flowers very smaU, reddish, in puberulous 

 racemose panicles 7-10 in. long, genei'ally much crowded on the trunk; 

 pedicels scarcely J^ in. long, crowded in little clusters of 3-7 together 

 with or without a short peduncle, and with an ovate concave bract at 

 the base. Sepals 4-6, scarcely ^ in. long. Stamens 5-10. Pistillode 

 discoid, entire or 2-5-lobed. Female flowers about twice as large as 

 the male, in simple puberulous racemes 8-12 in. long ; pedicels ^-^ in. 

 long, irregularly arranged along the rhachis, and with a minute bract at 

 the base of each. Sepals usually 5 (less corainonly 6, 7 or 8), mostly 

 unequal, ^-1 in. long, ovate, acute. Ovary ovoid, truncate, hairy, 

 3-celled ; stigma sessile, 3-lobed. Fruit subglobose, 1 in. or more in 

 diam., rough, with 3 prominent ridges running from the apex to the 



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