356 # EUPHORBIACEX. | Bischoffia. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests and hill saxsnnels plone choungs 
from Arracan, Pegu and aban down to Tenasserim, up to 2,500 ft. eleva- 
tion.—Fl. March.—l.—SS.=All. SiS. Metam 
Ks.—Wood rather light, brown, coarse-fibrous, but close-grained, 
takes i polish. W=0'=35 ; break.-weight—=153—170 pd. 
BACCAUREA, Lour. 
Flowers dioecious or monoecious. Calyx 4-5 cleft, imbricate. 
Petals none. Disk none or ae Stamens 4-10, free, inserted 
Fruit a spurious berry, covered with a coriaceous irregularly bursting 
epicarp, 5-1- gee often few-seeded from abortion, the seeds en- 
veloped in a large, white, sappy and edible arillus. —Trees, with 
simple often geniculate- petioled leaves. Flowers small, in racemes 
or spikes, sometimes collected in a panicle, or arising “from the trunk 
or old branches. 
Male calyx-lobes and bracts of both sexes a line long, female 
calyx nearly 3 lin. long . B, sapida. 
All the abore: ad on oF half the size, the female ealys lobes only 
re ong . B. parviflora. 
‘3 B. sapida, Muell. deg; ‘Bedd. Sylv. Made: t. 280.—Ka-na- 
so.—An evergreen tree (40—504+15— 25+3— 5), the leaf-buds 
and eae br anchlets appressed tawny- “pubestent 5 bark about a a 
or 
tubercle-like Veena. on the main and lateral pee ; calyx 
, the segments in the males incurved at the apex, densely 
greyish puberulous, only about a line long, ssi of the females 
oblong, nearly 3 lin. long, tawny-tomentose ; ovary tawny-tomen- 
igma sessile, discoid ; berries elaine leather-yellow, 
softly but indistinctly puberulous, the size of a prune or large cherry, — 
containing several soft walled cells, with 2 or more seeds enveloped 
in an ae acid sweet, edible, pale rose-coloured arillus. 
emt in the tropical lly the open ones, and 
occasionally the moister pp fear i. . tol, 000 ft. elevation, 
ng and Ava down to Tennasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. March, — 
fom or iy vane. —s.—SS.=SiS., Metam 
