Bischofia.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 345 



B. javanica, Blume Bijd. 1168 ; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 478 ; Brand. 'For. Fl. 446 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 355 ; Beddome St/lv. Madr. 

 t. 259 ; Gambte Man. Ind. Timb. 355 ; Miquel Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. ii. 363, and 

 Suppl. 444. B. trifoliata, Hook. Ic. PL t. 844. B. Roeperiana, Dene, in 

 Jacquem. Voy. Bot.lb'3; Baill. G-en. Euphorb.i. 26, f. 25-52. B. Cum- 

 ingiana & B. Toui, Dene. 1. c. B. oblongirblia, Dene. I. c. t. 154. Stylo- 

 discus trifoliatns, Bennet Plant. Jan. Rar. 133, t. 29 ; Dalz. Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 235. Micrcclus Roeperianus, Wight Sf Arn. in jEdinb. New Phil. Journ. 

 xiv. 298 ; Wight Ic. t. 1880. Andrachne trifoliata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind, iii. 728. 

 A. apetala, Eoxb. mss. ; Wall. Cat. 7956. Phyllauthus ? gyrnnanthus, 

 Baill. Rec. Obs. Bot. ii. 240 (fid. Muell). 



TEOPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards, and from ASSAM southwards, to 

 TENASSERIM. DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Western Ghats from Canara southwards 

 to the Nilgi'ri Hills. (Absent from Ceylon.) DISTBIB. Malay and Pacific Islands. 



A round-headed more or less deciduous-leaved quite glabrous tree, 30-40 ft.; bark 

 smooth. Leaves very variable ; petiole 1-6 in. ; leaflets 3-5 in., from ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, repand-toothed, petiolules i-f in. Panicles very slender, 

 flowers green, males minute on short slender pedicels, fern. ^ in. diam. on stout 

 pedicels. Fruit fleshy, on long thickened pedicels, smooth, size of a pea, blue black. 

 Seeds smooth, shining, testa splitting longitudinally, dark brown. Kurz describes 

 the fleshy fruit as almost indehiscent and containing a crustaceous 3-4-coccous 

 capsule (implying a dehiscence within). Wight, and Hook. Ic. PI., figure a 3 -celled 

 fleshy fruit and 3 seeds with thick testas. Mueller describes a 3-coccous parchment- 

 like endocarp, and says nothing of the testa.. 



21. APOROSA, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, rarely sinuate-toothed, penninerved. 

 Flowers minute, dioecious, rarely monoecious, apetalous ; males most 

 minute in axillary catkin-like spikes ; fern, sessile or shortly pedicelled in 

 very short bracteate spikes. MALE FL. Sepals 4 (3-6), membranous, imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 1-5 in the centre of the flower, filaments capillary ; anthers 

 didymous. Pistillode minute or 0. FEM. FL. Sepals of the male, but 

 larger. Ovary 2-(rarely 3-)celled; stigmas small, plumose, short, spreading 

 or recurved, simple or 2-4-cleft, rarely elongate and 2-partite ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Fruit globose, ellipsoid or ovoid, bursting irregularly, or partially 

 2-4-valved from the base upwards, epicarp thin or thick_ and spongy or 

 fleshy, endocarp thin, often separable ; cells glabrous or hairy within, espe- 

 cially on the septum. Seeds oblong or suborbicular, usually plano-convex, 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species 30-40, Tropical Asiatic 

 and Malayan. 



Series I. STIPULES SMALL, DECIDUOUS. 



* Ovary pubescent or tbnientose (unknown in A. petiolata}.- 



f* Leaves more or less tomentose beneath (or glabrous in A. microcalyx). 

 Female flowers and fruit sessile. 



1. A. villosa, Baill. Gen. Euphorb. 645 ; branchlets petioles and 

 leaves beneath softly tomentose, leaves large from broadly oblong to elliptic- 

 obovate obtuse quite entire, bracts of male spikes broadly ovate acute hir- 

 sute, fern. fl. sessile, ovary villous, stigmas long 2-partite plumose, fruit 

 ovoid apiculate tawny-tomentose. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 471 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 361, Scepa villosa, Lindl. Nat. Stjst. Bot. Ed. 2, 441 (male 



