BrideliaJ] cxxxv. EUTHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 271 



8. B. tomentosa, Blume Bijd. 597 ; branches slender rusty-pubescent 

 or glabrate, leaves small thin lanceolate or linear-lanceolate acute or obtuse 

 beneath glaucous and finely pubescent, nerves 7-12 pairs nearly straight, 

 flowers monoecious in very small axillary and spicate clusters sessile or fern, 

 stoutly pedicelled glabrous, calyx-lobes ovate, petals of male retuse, of fern, 

 rounded or crenate, fruit small globose seated on the unaltered calyx. Muell. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 501 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 367 ; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Timb. 357 ; Wall. Cat. 7874 ; Miquel^Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 364, and Suppl. 445 ; 

 Benth. Fl. HongJc. 309, and Fl. Austral, vi. 120. B. Loureirii, Hook.tyArn. 

 Bot. Beech. Voy. 211 (excl. syn. Lour.}. B. rhamnoides, Griff. Notul. iv. 

 480. ? B. lanceaefolia, Roxb. FL Ind. iii 737. B. lancifolia, Ram. in Wall. 

 Cat. 7884. Amanoa tomentosa, Baill. Adans. vi. 336. Wall. Cat. 7944. 



TEOPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. ; ASSAM, KHASIA Mrs., SILHET, and 

 southwards to the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, PERAK, PENANG and MALACCA. DISTEIB. 

 Mulay Islands, China, Philippines, N. Austnlia. 



A shrub or small evergreen tree. Leaves 1-3 rarely 4 in., undulate, ahove 

 glabrous or obscurely pubescent, sometimes reddish-glaucous beneath and soon gla- 

 brous ; petiule | g- in. Clusters of 5 6-fid flowers very small in very slender leal'y or 

 leafless spikes; bracts minute, villous, stipular if present subulate. Calyx jj-yj in. 

 diam. ; lobes acute, bearded below the tip within. Petals variable. Lisk of male 

 pulviuate, of fern, shorb annular. Styles 2,5-fid to the middle, short, arms recurved. 

 Disk with a conical centre embracing the ovary. Fruit | | in. diarn., blue-black. 

 Mueller has a var. trichadenia from the Australian plant, with the fern, disk hairy 

 within ; Bentham does not notice this character. According to Roxburgh tin's 

 species is dioecious; Clarke says mono3cious. 



9. B. pustulata, Hook.f. ; branches very stout pustulate, leaves thinly 

 coriaceous elliptic or oblong acute glabrous above sparsely pubescent 

 beneath base usually rounded or cordate, nerves 6-9 pair strong with strong 

 rather distant cross-nervules, flowers very many in dense globose axillary 

 clusters monoecious glabrous, calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, petals of lem 

 very minute, fruit globose stipitate on the unaltered calyx. 



M ALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4883) and Maingay (1371). PERAK ; at Goping, 

 King's Collector. 



Branches woody, bark brown. Leaves 4-7 by 2-4 in., rather abruptly acute or 

 acuminate, dark brown on both surfaces, more sooty beneath when dry, base rarely 

 acute ; petiole \\ in., shrivelled, glabrous, black. Clusters J in. diam. ; bracts 

 minute, rather scarious, short, obtuse or truncate, brown, sparingly hairy. Calyx 

 T \j in. diam., rigid, not much exceeding the bracts. Ovary ovoid ; styles 2, forked at 

 the tip. I rind no male fl. Maingay describes these as having scale-like emarginate 

 petals, a disk lining the calyx -tube, and a conical pistillode. 



10. 23. dasycalyx, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 369 ; branches rusty-tomentose, 

 leaves obovate or oblong subacute or acuminate pubescent beneath, base 

 obtuse or rounded, nerves 6-10 pair, cross-nervules strong, petiole stout, 

 flowers minute numerous in globose axillary clusters, calyx of fern, tomentose 

 unaltered in fruit glabrous within, disk with a ring of bristles round the 

 base of the ovary, petals linear-obovate, fruit ellipsoid. 



Pi GU and BUBMA ; in dry forests, Kurz. 



Blanches rather stout, and leaves above dark when dry. Leaves rather thin in 

 dasy calyx proper, 5-7 in. long, acuminate, contracted at the rounded base and rather 

 glaucous beneath ; in var aridicola, Kurz, 3 i in. long, oblong, obtuse or subacute, 

 thicker ; nerves nearly straight ; petiole T V- i' 1 - Fruit %-% in. long. Kurz de- 

 scribes das y calyx proper as a climber, and var. aridicola as more or less erect. 



ft Leaves glabrous. 



11. 3. Sfamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 7882; nearly glabrous, leaves 



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