Baccaurea.'] oxxxv. EUPHORBLACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 375 



23. B. Wallichii, Hoolc.f. ; a tree 30-40 ft., glabrous, leaves 5-6 in. 

 thinly coriaceous pale elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate obtusely often cau- 

 dately acuminate, base very acute, nerves 5-7 pairs and cross-nervules 

 slender, petiole slender usually -J of the length of the blade, fruiting 

 racemes from the old and young branches pubescent, bracts obscure or 0, 

 pedicels in. rather slender jointed about the middle, sepals caducous, fruit 

 -1 in. diam. trigonously globose scarlet puberulous 3-celled, top rounded 

 with a short style and 3 minute stigmas, pericarp thick corky, endocarp not 

 separating pale red-brown within, seeds oblong or obovate acute compressed 

 but turgid. Pierardia? Wall. Cat. 8073. 



PENANG, Wallich. PERAK, ScortecMni, King's Collector. 



B. WALLICHII, var. ?, leaves of 3. WallicJiii, flowering fem. racemes 

 1-2 in. very slender pubescent, pedicels very short bracteate at the base 

 bracts very broad short, sepals in. linear-oblong obtuse very finely pubes- 

 cent, ovary ellipsoid densely tomentose 3-celled, stigma sessile peltate 

 obscurely 3-lobed densely papillose, fruit as in B. Wallichii, but pale 

 yellowish brown when dry minutely granulate and stigma sessile. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1365, flower, and 1368, fruit). 



24. B. macrocarpa, Muell. Arg.inDC. Prodr. xv. ii. 459 ? quite 

 glabrous, bark of branches white, leaves 5-7 in. coriaceous oblong or obovate- 

 oblong abruptly obtusely caudately cuspidate grey brown and shining above, 

 dark red-brown beneath with 6-8 pairs of strong nerves and cross-nervules, 

 base narrow obtuse or subcordate, petiole 1-1 ^ in. black when dry, fem. 

 flowering racemes from the branches 3-6 in. nearly glabrous stout black 

 when dry, pedicels in. stout recurved jointed about the middle, very 

 obscurely bracteate at the base and short rounded sepals glabrous, ovary 

 broadly ovoid laterally 3-lobed contracted into a stout style with 3 large 

 recurved plumose stigmas quite glabrous. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4903). Closely resembles a Sumatran specimen 

 marked B. macrocarpa, Miquel, in the Calcutta Herbarium, 'but which differs from 

 Mueller's description of that plant in the glabrous branches petioles and leaf-nerves 

 beneath, and in the fruit beiug globose and not at all ellipsoid. 



25. Baccaurea sp. E ; a tree 30-60 ft., glabrous, leaves 4-6 in. coria- 

 ceous elliptic- or obovate-oblong obtuse or subacute, base rounded or acute 

 yellowish above when dry and greenish beneath, nerves 10-12 pairs very 

 strong beneath, nervules strongly reticulate, petiole |- the length of 

 the blade, fruitingracem.es from the old branches 4-8 in. slender pubescent, 

 pedicels in. jointed about the middle ebracteate or with a very minute 

 bract at the joint tomentose as well as the short obtuse sepals, fruit ^- in. 

 turgidly ellipsoid or globose contracted into a very short beak with 3 very 

 minute recurved 2-fid stigmas obscurely 3-ridged puberulous and obscurely 

 wrinkled, pericarp very thin, endocarp not separable pale brown within, 

 seeds ^ in. long orbicular-ovate smooth compressed slightly pointed. 



PERAK, King's Collector (No. 6240 and 6860). 



26. Baccaurea sp. F; branchlets and petioles scurfily tomentose, leaves 

 4-6 in. coriaceous oblong acute or acuminate base subacute smooth above, 

 softly tomentose beneath, nerves 6-7 pairs very strong beneath and forming 

 intra-marginal arches red brown when dry, young with minute marginal 

 tufts of hairs, fem. sepals very short ovate, stigmas minute sessile 2-fid, 

 fruit 1 in. diam. very shortly pedicelled on a very short stout peduncle 



