Baccaurea.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 369 



3 large recurved stigmas, fruit small fusiform, pericarp thick. Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 357. B. affinis, Muell. I. c. Pierardia parviflora, Muell. Arg. in 

 Linraa xxxii. 82. Wall. Cat. 7759 B. 



TENASSEEIM, Wallich, Heifer. PENANG, Curtis. PEBAK, King's Collector. 

 MALACCA, Hervey, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1364, 1368). SINGAPOBE, Hullett. 

 DISTBIB. Sumatra (Beccari Xo. 896). 



A small tree, 15-25 ft. (in Perak) ; branches slender. Leaves variable in form, 

 2-5 by 2-3 in., rather thin ; petiole -H in. ; stipules lanceolate, ciliate and usually 

 pubescent on the back. Male racemes from both the old wood and young branches, 

 2-4 in.; flowers -^ in. diam. ; sepals 4-5, broad ; stamens 4-8; pistillode orbicular. 

 Fern, racemes in tufts from the old wood (near the root in Perak specimens), 3-6 in. ; 

 pedicels bracteate at the base, jointed above the middle; sepals | in. long, obtuse, 

 hoary and white within. Fruit -| in. long, fusiform or narrowly ellipsoid, narrowed 

 at both ends, 3-celled, pericarp thick corky rugose and obscurely angled when dry, 

 endocarp not separable nor thickened, smooth within. Seed % in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, with a shallow dorsal groove. This is Mueller's Pierardia parviflora, described 

 from Wallich's male specimen. In the Prodromus a Bornean plant (Motley No. 757) 

 with broken remains of fern. fl. is united with it, and may or may not be conspecific. 

 Motley's and Barber's No. 80 from Borneo (in Herb. Hook.) may be the same. I 

 trust I am right in referring the fusiform fruited species to this, but I have no 

 authority for so doing beyond the fact that both sexes are common and found at 

 most of the same localities, and that the foliage of the two is uniformly alike. 



Series II. Male racemes with short few-fid, lateral branches to which the 

 bract is adnate and produced beyond the sessile flowers as a short claw with 

 2 lateral bracteoles. Fern, racemes ebracteate, except at the joint of the 

 pedicel. 



5. B. polyneura, Hook.f. ; shoots petioles and leaves beneath pubes- 

 cent, leaves oblong obtuse or subacute base cordate, nerves 10-14 pairs, male 

 racemes on the branches very short, flowers sessile on the bracteate tips of 

 the short side branches hoary-tomentose, fern, racemes very long ebra'cteate, 

 ovary globose, stigmas subulate recurved, fruit ellipsoid, pericarp rather thin, 

 seeds orbicular. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4910), llaingay (Kew Distrib. 1421). PEBAK, 

 King's Collector. 



A tree, 60-80 ft. (in Perak). Leaves 2-6 in., yellowish when dry, coriaceous, 

 sometimes subfalcate, nerves and numerous cross-nervules very strong beneath; 

 petiole rather slender, f-lj in. Male racemes 1-2 in., clustered ; flowers -^ in. diain.; 

 sepals 4-5, very unequal ; stamens 4-5 ; pistillode orbicular. Fern, racemes 8-12 in. ; 

 pedicels | in., jointed beneath the flower ; sepals f in. long, ovate or oblong, very 

 unequal ; stigmas not like those of any other Indian species I have seen. Fruit 

 about 1 in. long, erect on the spreading pedicel. Seed obtuse at both ends. 



6. B. macrophylla, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 460; glabrous 

 except the pubescent racemes, leaves 6-12 in. long-petioled very coriaceous 

 elliptic- or obovate-oblong cuspidate or acuminate, nerves 10-12 pairs very 

 strong beneath, stipules large broad coriaceous, male racemes 2-3 in. catkin- 

 like, flowers sessile on the bracteate tips of the branchlets, fern, stout, sepals 

 small, ovary globose hoary-tomentose, stigmas 3 small broad 2-lobed 

 depressed, fruit small ellipsoid or globose glabrous 2-celled, seeds flat sub- 

 orbicular testa wrinkled. Pierardia macrophylla, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlvii. 

 (1864) 516. 



PENANG, Phillips. PEEAK, King's Collector. DISTBIB. Borneo. 

 A tree, 60-80 ft. (in Perak), (a climber, Phillips.) Leaves very variable in 

 size, smooth dark brown and shining above, rich red-brown beneath when dry, cross- 



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