189 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
the scales half as long, their apices erose, glabrous. Stamens 24 to 32; the filaments 
short, subulate, sericeous; anthers elongate, deeply cordate. Female flowers like the males, 
but sepals 3, petals 6, and stamens about 17 only. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, deeply sulcate, 
with 4 radiating reflexed oblong stigmas, l-celled, with 4 multi-ovulate parietal placentas. 
Fruit solitary, globular, smooth, 2°5 in. in diam.; the pericarp thick, the outer layer 
fibrous, the inner woody. Seeds embedded in scanty pulp, plano-convex, '75 in. or more 
in length. 
Perak; in dense forest at low elevations; King’s collector, Nos. 6042 and 8183; 
Wray, 3389. 
Prarz 152. Татари депо» Kunstleri, King. 1, branch with male flowers; 2 riye fruit: of natural size; З, sepal; 
4, petal; 5, staminal column; 6, stamens; 7 rudimentary ovary from male flower: much enlarged. 
Куракова (Ryparta), Blume. Nat. Ord, Bizinee. 
Trees or shrubs with entire, alternate, elongate, petiolate leaves, finely reticulate and 
more or less glaucescent beneath. Flowers rather small, dicecious; the males in long 
axillary racemes; the females in shorter racemes, solitary, or in pairs, Culyx globose in 
bud, 3- to à-cleft. Petals 5, imbricate, coriaceous; іп the female flower each with a large 
sericeous scale at its base. Male flower; filaments united in a column with 5, ovate, 
2-celled, extrorse anthers at its apex. Female flower; staminodes 5, alternate with the 
etals. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 to 3, biovulate, parietal placentas. Stigmas 2 to 3, sessile, 
broad, emarginate. Fruit baccate with little pulp; the pericarp coriaceous, tomentose. 
Seeds 1 or 2, sub globular, smooth. 
Note.—This genus was first published by Blume in his Bijdragen (р. 600) as Ryparosa, and in 
that work he published only the single species ЈЕ. cesia. In a footnote to the preface of his Flora Javae 
(р. vii), the same author referred to the genus (apparently by inadvertence) as Курама instead of 
Ryparosa; and the пате ARyp:ria has been adopted by most subsequent authors. Blume regarded the 
genus as Euphorhiaccous, in which view he was followed by Endlicher (Gen. 5836), Hasskarl (Pl. Jav. 
Rar., р. 267), and Baillon (Etud. Euph., р. 339). Müll. Arg. (in DC. Prod. ХУ, ii., p. 1260) excluded 
the genus from Euphorbizecac; and, in their Genera Plantarum, the late Mr. Bentham and Sir J. D. 
Hooker, (G. P. iii., 257), also exclude it; but, having seen no specimons either of it or of Bergsmia, 
they make no suggestion as to the true position of Ryparosa or of the relation of Bergsmia to it. Kurz 
(Journ. Bot. for 1873, р. 933, and For. Fl. Burm. I. 76) was the first to refer Ryparosa to Bizineae. 
But Kurz made the mistake of describing in the latter work, as “ Ryparia сезім,” a plant which agrees 
neither with Blume’s description nor with his specimens of Дурагоза сема. The name of Kurz's plant 
I have therefore altered to В. Kursi. In 1848, Blume published, in Rumphia IV, р. 23, t. 178 C., fig. 
2, a new genus called Bergsmia which, as Kurz also pointed out (Journ. of Bot. for 1878, p. 233), is 
nothing more ог less tnan his older Ryparosa. Only one species (В. javanica) was known to Blume. 
То this Miquel added (Fl. Ind. Dat. Suppl. 389) two species, namely, В. Sumatrana and B.? acuminata, 
I have seen neither of these; but the cymose inflorescence of В. Sumatrana leads me to believe that 
it must be a Hydnocarpus, while the second (В? acuminata) was referred doubtfully to Bergsmia by its 
author himself. Th- collections brought, within the past year or two, from Perak by the collectors of 
the Calentta garden contain copious suites of specimens of Ryparosa and, from an examination of these, 
1 have no doubt that Ryparvst belongs to Birineae, and that Bergsmia must be reduced to it. Besides 
the seven species described below, there are in the Calcutta Herbarium imperfect materials belonging to, 
everal additiunal species from Perak, and to some from Sumatra. Wall. Cat. No. 7847B. (from Penang) 
and Bceeari's No. 702 (from Sumatra), are also clearly species of Ryparosa. 
