270 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bridelia. 



terminal buds only, subulate. Clusters of flowers % in. diam. ; bracts minute, densely 

 imbricate, pubescent, shorter than the flowers. Perianth | in. diam., lobes subacuto. 

 Disk of male flat, of fern, flat raised in the middle into a truncate cone embracing the 

 ovary. Styles 2, 2 -fid. Fruit nearly 1 in. long, smooth, pericarp thin. 



** Nerves 5-12 pair, rarely more, more or less arched, rarely straight, 

 f Leaves more or less pubescent or tomentose beneath. 



6. B. stipularis, Blume J9//V/597 ; subscandent, shoots pubescent or 

 tomentose, leaves subcoriaceous elliptic obovate or orbicular-oblong obtuse 

 or acute base rounded or cordate shortly tomentose beneath, nerves 6-9 pair 

 spreading slender slightly arched, flowers monoecious in small axillary 

 clusters or long spikes often subtended by long stipular bracts males sessile 

 fern, pedicelled pubescent or glabrate, petals orbicular, fruit oblong seated 

 on the enlarged calvx. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 499 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. ii. 449 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 369 ; Beddome Foresters Man. 201 ; Miquel 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 364, and Suppl. 445. B. scandens, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 

 979; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 736; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PL 184; Dah. Sf Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 233 ; Wall. Cat. 7878 (excl. E). B. retusa, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 

 27, t. 7, f. 22. B. Zolliugeri, Miquel I. c. 364. Cluytia scandens, Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. ii. 39, t. 173. C. stipularis, Linn. Mant. 127. Zizyphus raceinosus, 

 Wall. Cat. 7878 D. Eheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 16. 



Throughout the hotter parts of INDIA, along the foot-hills of the Himalaya from 

 Kashmir to Bhotan, and southward to Travancor, Malacca and Peuaug. CEYLON; 

 below Alagale, Ferguson. DISTEIB. Malay Islands, Philippines, Tropical Africa. 



A large more or less scandent evergreen shrub, branches straight or flexuous, 

 usually fulvous-tomentose. Leaves 2-8 by -5 in., margins sometimes undulate or 

 repand, glabrous or puberulous above, rarely acuminate; petiole \-\ in., stout, 

 tomentose. Clusters of flowers green in often very long and panicled spikes; bracts 

 tamentose ; the stipular leaves are ovate-lanceolate, sometimes much longer than the 

 flowers. Calyx % in. diam. ; lobes lanceolate, acuminate. Petals alike in both sexes. 

 Disk of male pulvinate, of fern, urceolate, with a ring of bristles at the base within. 

 Styles with long slender arms. Fruit nearly | in. long, obtuse, bluish-black, 

 smooth ; calyx ^ in. diam. I find no specimens of Wallich's Q from Nepal in his 

 herbarium. The only Ceylon specimen that I have seen has very small flowers, it is 

 not in fruit. Maingay describes the albumen of the immature fruit as fleshy, and 

 adds that in the mature it probably becomes absorbed ; the calyx as olive-yellow 

 spotted with red. Wallich's n. 7878 E, fr jm Herb. Madras, is a different specie?, which 

 I fail to identify in its imperfect state. 



7. B. pubescens, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 367 ; an erect tree, branchlets and 

 leaves beneath tawny pubescent, leaves membranous elliptic-obovate or 

 -oblong acute or acuminate base acute or rounded, nerves 10-12 pair arched 

 slender, flowers monoecious in small axillary and spicate clusters sessile and 

 shortly pedicelled pubescent, calyx-lobes lanceolate, petals of male broadly 

 flabelliform 3-lobed, of fern, obovate fleshy, fruit oblong obtuse seated on 

 the unaltered calyx. Cleistanthus oblongifolius, var. a scaber, Muell. Arg . 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 506 (the Siklcim plant}. 



TKOPICAL EASTERN NEPAL and SIKKIM ; in hot valleys from the Terai to alt. 

 5000 ft., J. D. H., &c. PEGU ; on the Eastern slopes, Kurz. 



An evergreen tree, 20-50 ft. Leaves 3-8 by |-4| in., midrib and nerves very 

 slender; petiole J- in., slender. Clusters of flowers ^\\\. diam. ; bracts short; flowers 

 white with a deep yellow disk. Calyx f- in. diam. Disk of male pulvinate, of fern, 

 conical enclosing the ovary, mouth laciniate. Fruit \-\ in. long, blue-black, api- 

 culate. 



