372 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Baccaurea. 



463. Pierardia sapida, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 254 ; Wall. Cat. 8072. Wall. Cat. 

 7758, 7761, 8071. 



Base of the EASTERN HIMALAYA, J. D. H., Clarke. ASSAM, Hamilton. SILHET, 

 BUBMA, the MALAY PENINSULA and ANDAMAN ISLANDS, wild or cultivated. 

 DISTBIB. Malay Archipelago. 



An evergreen tree, 40-50 ft., shoots substrigosely pubescent. Leaves 4-8 in., 

 rather membranous; petiole 1-1^ in. Male racemes usually on the branches or 

 trunk, fern, lower down, or on the trunk, both tomentose. Male fl. about in. 

 diam., on very short lateral branches; sepals 4-5, unequal; stamens 4-8. Fern. 

 sepals -- in. long. Fruit f-1 in. diam., yellow, puberulous; endocarp not separable, 

 smooth within. Seeds orbicular, fleshy coat rose-coloured. I find no characters 

 whereby to distinguish B. propinqua from sapida, which appears to be a commonly 

 cultivated tree in India, but to be also truly wild in the Sikkim Terai (Clarke) and 

 Khasia Hills. The detached pyriform fruits distributed by Wallich with his No. 8071 

 do not, I think, belong to this species. 



13. B. brevipes, Hook. /. ; branchlets robust and leaves beneath 

 pubescent or tomentose, leaves large thinly coriaceous obovate-oblong nar- 

 rowed into the petiole subacute or acuminate, nerves about 12 pairs very 

 strong beneath ascending and slightly arched, male racemes on the branches 

 very long and slender hoary-pubescent, bracts linear-lanceolate lower longer 

 than the clusters of flowers, fern, spikes from the trunk and branches stout 

 tomentose, flowers sessile, sepals in., ovary ovoid villously strigose, stigmas 

 short broad depressed 2-lobed, fruit subglobose 3-celled, seed compressed 

 beaked smooth. 



PERAK, King's Collector, Wray, Scortechini. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Dlstrib. 

 4908, 4909), Maingay (Kew Dlstrib. 1366, 1367, 1405). DISTEIB. Borneo. 



A small tree (in Perak) ; branchlets as thick as the little finger. Leaves 8-14 by 

 4-6 in., from sparsely pilose with scattered hairs to tomentose beneath ; base acute 

 obtuse or cordate ; petiole 13 in., very stout. Male racemes with short lateral 2- 

 3-fld. branches ; flowers T \y in. diam ; sepals 4-5, unequal ; stamens 4-8. Fern, spikes 

 6-10 in., stout. Fruit ^-1 in. diam., pubescent, cream-coloured, or waxy white. 

 Seeds %-% in. long, contracted rather suddenly into a beak ; .aril light blue. 



*** Bracts large, broad, concave, enclosing the clusters of flowers, 

 deciduous. 



14. B. bract eat a, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 466 ; shoots 

 petioles nerves beneath and spikes rusty-pubescent or tomentose, leaves 

 long-petioled coriaceous elliptic-oblong -ovate or -lanceolate acuminate or 

 acute, with 5-7 pairs of strong nerves and black dots beneath, inflorescence 

 of both sexes on the young branches 1-3 in., bracts of male panicle broadly 

 ovate concave exceeding the clusters of flowers, ovary villous ovoid contracted 

 into a short style with 3 suberect 2-fid stigmas, fruit globose, pericarp very 

 thick 3-valved. Pierardia dulcis, Wall. Cat. 8075 (not of Jack}. Sapium 

 sterculiacum, Watt. Cat. 7974. Wall. Cat. 7834. 



PEEAK, Scortechini, King's Collector, &c. MALACCA and SINGAPORE, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 4900, 4899J, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1362, 1390). DISTEIB. 

 Borneo. 



A tree, 30-60 ft. in Perak ; branches terete, smooth, red brown. Leaves from 

 3 by 1-1 1 in. to 7 by 4 in., base rounded or acute, dark brown above when dry. 

 usually reddish beneath with black glands, and strong nerves ; petiole equalling -f 

 the length of the blade. Male panicles 2-3 in.; branches rather long and distant, at 

 first sheathed in the often opposite imbricating bracts, which are |-^ in. long obtuse 

 and tomentose. Male flowers ~ ^ in. diam. ; sepals 3-5, oblong, very unequal ; 

 stamens 4-6; pistillode columnar. Fern, racemes lax-fld. ; sepals in. long, linear- 



