Baccaurea.'} cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) 373 



oblong, obtuse. Fruit f-1 in. diam., obscurely 3-gonous, loculicidal, pericarp very 

 thick; endocarp not separating, walls smooth within. This cannot be Jack's B. 

 dulcis. 



15. B. reticulata, Hook. f. ; shoots petioles and nerves beneath 

 finely yellow-tomentose or hoary, leaves long-petioled coriaceous elliptic- 

 oblong or elliptic acuminate or cuspidate not dotted beneath base acute pale 

 beneath with 8-12 pairs of strong nerves, nervules strongly reticulated, male 

 racemes on the branches stout finely tomentose, bracts broadly ovate 

 cucullate longer thon the short lateral branches and flower-clusters. 



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

 4899), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1360, 1360/2, 1365), Hervey. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Hab.it of S. bracteata, but leaves much paler, often yellow beneath, with very 

 strong reticulations and no black dots. In the Calcutta Herbarium this bears three 

 names, B. costulata (from Malacca), B. pubera (from Banca), and B. bracteata (with- 

 out locality). B. costulata (of which I have seen authentic specimens) has few 

 nerves and leaves nearly smooth beneath between them. B. pubera is a doubtful 

 Baccaurea with stellate tomentose parts ; and B. bracteata is described above. 



16. B. latifolia, King in Herb. Calcutt. branches and petioles sub- 

 stellately puberulous, leaves long-petioled coriaceous elliptic or elliptic- 

 oblong cuspidate or acute tomentose with soft hairs beneath and 10-12 pairs 

 of very strong nerves, male panicles hoary-pubescent, bracts broadly ovate 

 acuminate longer or equalling the flower clusters, fruiting racemes from the 

 old wood stout, pedicels bracteate above the base jointed at the top, fruit 

 globose smooth finely pubescent tipped with a short style 3-celled, pericarp 

 very thick spongy. 



PERAK, King's Collector. 



A tree, 50-60 ft. ; branches stout. Leaves 6-8 by 3-5 in., or more oblong and 

 6-7 by 3-3| in., dark red brown above when dry, paler beneath, base acute or obtuse, 

 petiole rather stout, or | the length of the blade. Male panicles from the youngest 

 branches, 2-4 in. ; bracts in. long, concave, hoary, caducous ; flowers -^ in. diam. ; 

 sepals 45, broad ; stamens as many ; pistillode low, tumid. Fruiting racemes 

 6-8 in. ; rachis hoary -pubescent, as thick as a duck's quill ; pedicels -| in. long, 

 woody, with 2-3 broad short bracteoles, distinctly jointed below the calyx. Fruit 

 f-f in. diam., with the short obtuse calyx-lobes at the base. 



SPECIES OF WHICH THE MALE FLOWERS ALONE ARE KNOWN. 



17. Baccaurea sp. A; branches slender black when dry glabrous to 

 the tips, leaves 3-5 in. membranous elliptic subcaudately acuminate base 

 very acute, nerves 4-6 pairs very slender, nervules obscure, petiole 1-2 in. 

 very slender, male racemes on the branches very short f-1 in. deeurved 

 densely tomentose, bracts obtuse small adnate to the very short 2-3-fld. 

 side branches, sepals and stamens 4, pistillode depressed orbicular. 



PENANO, King's Collector (No. 1589). 



18. Baccaurea sp. B ; leaves glabrous 6-9 in. elliptic oblong or lan- 

 ceolate acuminate base acute, nerves 6-6 pairs, petiole 2-2| in., male 

 racemes from the branches 4-6 in. long by f in. broad finely tomentose, 

 bracts on the slender rachis ^ in. oblong acute or obtuse caducous shorter 

 than the side branches, which bear many cymes of minute flowers -^ in. 

 diam., bracteoles on the branchlets minute persistent, sepals 5-6 unequal, 

 anthers 5-7 sessile round the subclavate truncate pistillode. 



PEBAK, King's Collector (No. 3266). 



