BaccaureaJ\ cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 371 



sessile, stamens 6-8, fruiting racemes slender, pedicels bracteate in the 

 middle, young fruit ovoid puberulous and hairy contracted into a short 

 style with 3 broad 2-lobed depressed stigmas. Pierardia flaccida, Wall. Cat. 

 8074. 



BUEMA, Wallich. TENASSEEIM, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 4907), Beddome. 



Habit and foliage of B. sapida, differing in the shorter very deciduous male 

 bracts, and in tbe bracts of the female not being at the base of the pedicel, but upon 

 it. An imperfectly known species. 



10. B. Griffith!!, Hook. f. ; shoots sparsely stellate pubescent or 

 glabrous, leaves long-petioled elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate cuspidately 

 acuminate base acute, nerves 6-8 pairs, stipules large oblong, male panicles 

 3-4 in., bracts small obtuse much shorter than the peduncles of the many -fid. 

 lateral branchlets, fern, racemes short, bracts broadly ovate acute at the 

 jointed base of the. tomentose pedicels, sepals small, fruit 1-1^ in. diam. 

 long pedicelled depressed globose rugose, pericarp very thick. 



MALACCA, Griffith. PERAK, King's Collector. 



A tree, 50-60 ft. (in Perak) ; branches petioles and often leaves above black 

 when dry. Leaves 812 in., thinly coriaceous, not shining, red-brown or pale 

 beneath ; nerves strong, cross-nervules slender, reticulations large; petiole rather 

 slender, equalling -J of the blade ; stipules | in. black, obtuse, like those of B. ma- 

 crophylla. Male racemes much more compound than usual, rachis slender ; lateral 

 branches much divided; bracts often on the brauchlets r caducous. Fern, racemes 

 2-3 in., rachis stout; pedicels \ in., stout; sepals -J^ in., obtuse ; ovary ovoid, densely 

 tomeutose, narrowed into a very short style with 3 recurved plumose stigmas. 

 Pedicel of fruit |-f in., woody, very stout. Fruit sparsely pubescent or glabrate, 

 pericarp in. thick. Seeds "not in a state for description. The male flowers are 

 described from a Malaccan specimen of Griffith. 



11. B. l&otlcyana, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 461 ; branches 

 robust, shoots petioles and leaves beneath finely tomentose, leaves large 

 thinly coriaceous elliptic-oblong subacute, base narrow subcordate, nerves 

 12-16 pairs, male racemes on the branches tomentose very slender, bracts on 

 the rachis minute lanceolate, lateral branches many-fld. Pierardia Motleyana, 

 Muell. Arg. in Flora xlvii. (1864) 516. 



PEBAK, King's Collector. DISTEIB. Borneo. 



A tree, 60-80 ft. (in Perak) ; branchlets as thick as the little finger. Leaves 8- 

 12 in., smooth above, greenish beneath with rusty pubescence on the nerves; petiole 

 2-3 in., stout. Motley describes the fruit as having a thin yellow skin, and the seeds, 

 which are much esteemed, as surrounded by a juicy pulp, pleasant and sweet, but con- 

 taining also an intense acid. This species much resembles in foliage and fruit the plate 

 (t. iv.) of a Baccaurea in " Marsden's Sumatra," alluded to under the description of the 

 Lanseh (Ed. 3, p. 101) as the Rambe. 



** Brads on the rachis lanceolate, all or the lowest in the racemes longer 

 than the clusters of flowers. 



12. B. sapida, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 459 ; leaves glabrous 

 elliptic-lanceolate oblanceolate or obovate acuminate base narrowed into the 

 petiole, nerves 5-6 pairs, male panicles 2-3 in., bracts lanceolate usually 

 much longer than the flowering-clusters hirsute, fern, racemes very long, 

 fern, pedicel bracteate at the base, sepals linear-oblong in. long, ovary 

 3-celled strigosely tomentose, stigmas sessile broad depressed 2-lobed, fruit 

 subglobose or ellipsoid and contracted at the apex, pericarp coriaceous fleshy, 

 seeds flat with a smooth testa and thick fleshy covering. Kurs For. Fl. ii. 

 356. B. macrostachya, Wiglit Ic. t. 1913. B. propinqua, Muell. Arg. I. c. 



