370 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Baccaurca. 



nervules faint, base acute cuneate or rounded ; petiole 2-3 in., stout; stipules (a* in 

 B. Grffithii) oblong 1 , baso obliquely auricled, often persistent and recurved. Male 

 racemes subsessile or peduncled ; side branchlets incurved, bracteate and 2-bracteolate 

 at the tip, flower ~ in. diam. ; sepals subequal, rounded; stamens 4; pistillode very 

 small. Fem.fi. -fa in. long ; sepals oblong-, obtuse. Fruit -f in. long or broad, 

 bluish green speckled with white. The confluence of the bract of the male fl. with 

 the branchlet of the raceme is as described in B. sumatrana, where however the 

 flowers are solitary. In the fern, raceme the bract is suppressed. 



7. Bi minor, HooJc.f. ; branches slender, leaves 2-3 in. ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate glabrous base acuminate, nerves 4-5 pairs 

 forming strong intra-marginal loops, petiole slender ^ 1 as long as trie 

 blade, racemes on the branches, males ^-1 in. yellow tomentose, male fl. 

 ternately sessile on the bracteate tips of the branchlets, fruiting racemes 

 slender, rachis ebracteate, fruit globose pubescent smooth, pericarp thin. 



PERAK, King's Collector, Scortecfiini. 



A tree, 20-30 ft. j shoots finely pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, yellow when 

 dry, greener beneath, strongly reticulate between the nerves. Male racemes 

 peduncled, dense-fld.; flowers -^ in., sessile on very short side branches with a 

 persistent bract produced beyond these and 2 bracteoles. Fern, racemes 6-10 in., 

 slender, brown-tomentose, ebracteate ; pedicels very short, jointed and obscurely 

 dilated in the middle, as if with a suppressed bract ; sepals^ in.', oblong, obtuse, tomen- 

 tose ; ovary globose, densely tomentose ; stigmas sessile, spreading, 2-fid with recurved 

 hardly papillose subulate arms whinh are tomentose at the back. Fruiting racemes 

 on the older wood, 6-10 in. ; pedicels in., jointed about the middle. Fruit f-f in. 

 diam., tipped with 3 minute broad 2 : lobed stigmas, pericarp thin with a thin smooth 

 endocarp. Seed orbicular, flat. 



8. B. Maing'ayi,, Hoolc.f. ; branchlets hoary-pubescent or glabrous, 

 leaves quite glabrous coriaceous long-petioled broadly ovate or oblong 

 obtusely cuspidate or acuminate base usually broadly rounded or sub- 

 cordate, nerves 7-10 pairs with slender cross-nervules, male racemes from the 

 young branches rusty-tomentose, bracts small broad adnate to the short 

 branchlets that bear the flower clusters, fruiting racemes from the older 

 wood rather slender, pedicels bracteate above the middle, fruit globose very 

 finely rusty-tomentose 3-celled obscurely 3-ridged, styles minute 2-lobed 

 depressed, pericarp very thin, cells hairy within, seeds flat, orbicular- ovate. 



MALACCA, Maingay ( Kew Distril. 1415). PERAK, (Kind's Collector.) 



A tree, 25-30 ft. (in Perak), branches woody. Leaves 7-10 by 3-5 in., yellowish 



when dry, above smooth often shining, greenish or red-brown beneath, nerves slender ; 



petiole 3 the 1> ngth of the blade. Male racemes 2-3 in. ; flowers subsessile, -fa in. 



diam.; sepnls 4-6, very unequal; stamens 5-6; pistillode obscure. Fruit | in. 



diam., like that of B. minor ; epicarp separating from a verv thin coriaceous endocarp, 



the walls of which within, and the membranous septa, are clothed with long lax hairs. 



This is the only species in which I have observed the cells of the fruit to be (as in 



so many Aporosce) hairy within ; but it probably is so in others. 



Series III. Male racemes with short branched many-fld. lateral branches ; 

 bracts if present on the rachis, or if on the branches caducous. 



* Bracts on the rachis 0, or small ovate or lanceolate much shorter than 

 the flower clusters. 



9. B. flaccida, Muell. Ary. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 459; shoots sparsely 

 hairy, leaves glabrous 6-8 in. elliptic-lanceolate oblanceolate or obovate acute 

 caudate or acuminate base acute, nerves 6-7 pairs, male racemes 1-2 in. 

 tomentose, bracts ovate shorter than the clusters of flowers, flowers sub- 



