374 CXXXY. EUPHORBiACE-E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Baccaurea. 



19. Baccaurea sp. C ; a tree 40-60 ft., leaves glabrous 8-12 in. 

 coriaceous elliptic obtusely acuminate base acute, nerves 9-10 pairs strong 

 beneath, petiole 1^-3 in. stout, male racemes on the branches 1^-2 in. finely 

 tomentose, rachis stout, bracts - in. longer than the clusters of flowers 

 ovate-oblong obtuse concave glabrous caducous, flowers ^-^ in. diam. in 

 very short branched lateral cymes, sepals 4-5 very unequal, anthers minute 

 filaments slender, pistillode lobed unequally. 



PERAK, alt. 2500-3000 ft., King's Collector (No. 7368). 



20. Baccaurea sp. D ; branches petioles and leaves beneath and 

 racemes brown tomentose, leaves coriaceous 6-8 in. oblong obtusely cus- 

 pidate base rounded or cordate, nerves 10-12 pairs strong beneath with close- 

 set cross-nervules, petiole stout $- in., stipules broad tomentose, male 

 racemes on the branches 4-6 in., bracts on the rachis lanceolate shorter than 

 the short 3-4-fld. lateral branches. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrlb. 4905, 4909 ?) ; Rambehootan," Griffith. 



SPECIES OF WHICH THE FEM. FLOWER OR FRUIT ALONE IS KNOWN. 



21. B. Wrayi, King in Herb. Calcutt.; a tree 60-80 ft., young 

 branches and petioles hirsute, leaves 5-7 in. membranous elliptic-lanceolate 

 or pblanceolate acuminate base very acute, beneath glabrous or with sparsely 

 hairy midrib and 7-9 pairs of slender nerves and reticulate cross-nervules, 

 petiole 1-2 in., stipules broadly ovate villous, fern, flowering racemes vil- 

 lously tomentose rather stout, pedicels very short bracteate at the base, 

 sepals in. linear-oblong obtuse tomentose caducous, ovary ovoid hirsute, 

 stigmas 3 depressed sessile 2-lobed, fruiting racemes 6-12 in. stout tomen- 

 tose, pedicel -^-5 in. jointed in the middle, fruit 1-1^ in. long ellipsoid or 

 subovoid granulate bright red glabrous or puberulous 3-celled, pericarp 

 thick, endocarp not separating smooth within, seeds 1| in. long ovate acute 

 compressed. 



PERAK, Wray, King's Collector. 



22. B. malayana. King in Herb. Calcutt. ; a tree 60-80 ft., branches 

 very stout, leaves 6-10 in. coriaceous glabrous pale broadly elliptic-oblong 

 or lanceolate obtuse entire or crenate-serrate base acute or rounded, nerves 

 7-10 pairs arched slender, petiole 1-2 in., fruiting racemes short woody, 

 pedicels $% in. stout woody jointed about the middle or inarticulate, fruit 

 very large 2 in. long ellipsoid or subglobosely obovoid softly appressedly 

 white tomentose 2-3-celled, tip rounded with a minute style and 3 recurved 

 2-fid stigmas, pericarp very thick - in., endocarp hard and coriaceous 

 smooth within sometimes separating, seeds large 1 in. long orbicular in the 

 2-celled fruit subtrigonously oblong in the 3-celled thick compressed smooth 

 not furrowed. Hedycarpus malayanus, Jack, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 118. 



PERAK, King's Collector. MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1363). DISTRIB. 

 Sumatra. 



The Malaccan specimens have much narrower leaves, with acute bases and slanting 

 nerves, than the Perak ones, which .are broad and agree well with Jack's description 

 of the Sumatran plant. Jack's character of the flowers is imperfect ; he does not 

 describe the bracts nor distinguish the sexes ; he says the perianth is 4 or 5-partite, 

 stamens 4 or 5, ovary 3- or 4-celled, stigmas 3 or 4. The bracts he describes as small 

 broad and on the pedicel below its subdivision ; this presumably applies to the fern, 

 flower. It is the only species with distinctly serrate leaves, though this is not 

 constant. 



