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with the partial peduncle : calyces of either sex 4 — 5-parted : 

 segments of the male calyx sometimes unequal : stamens 4 — 10 : 

 filaments free : rudimentary ovary lobed : ovary 2 — 5- or more 

 frequently 3-celled : stigmas subsessile, broadish, 2 — 3-lobed or 

 torn, more or less strongly papillose : fruit half-fleshy, thiek- 

 skinnedj 5—2 — 1-celied, cells 2 — 1-seeded. 



(1) B. SAPiDA. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XY. s. 2. p. 459. 



Syn. Pierardia sapida, Boxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 252. — P. micro- 

 stachys, W. Sf A. 



Ikigrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1912-13.' 



Spec. Chab. Tree: racemes aggregate, pendulous from the 

 trunk and woody branches, rusty-puberulous : leaves lanceolate- 

 obovate, acute at the base, repandly subdentate at the margin : 

 male flowers ternate in the axil of the bracts, females solitary, all 

 shortly pedicelled : bracts ovate or lanceolate : calycine segments 

 lanceolate : ovary oblong-ellipsoid, rusty-silky : fruit globose- 

 ellipsoid, lightly incurved, somewhat narrowed at both ends, ru- 

 fescent-puberulous, pulpy-red when ripe : seeds covered with a 

 fibrous blood-red aril. 



Eastern Sengal. Malabar forests. 



(2) 'B. CoTTBTAiiLEiisis. {Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 459. 



Syn. Pierardia CourtaUensis, iZ. Wight. 



Mngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1912. 



Spec. Chae. Tree: racemes proceeding from the woody 

 trunk, fascicled: leaves lanceolate-obovate, acute at the base, 

 obtusely cuspidate-acuminate at the apex, stiffly membranaceous : 

 stamens 4— '6 : segments of the male calyx orbicular-elliptic, 

 obtuse, concave, females linear-lanceolate : ovary subglobose, 

 rufous-sUky. 



Courtallum. 



(3) B. PEOPiNQUA. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 463. 



Spec. Chae. Tree: branchlets densely leafy above, rufescently 

 pubescent : leaves elliptic or lanceolate-obovate, obtusely cuspi- 

 date-acuminate, acute at the base, glabrous above : panicles or 

 racemes somewhat spiciform, not pendulous, 2 — 3 times shorter 

 than the leaves, flexuose, tawny-pubescent : bracts ovate-lanceo- 

 late, exceeding the flowers, persistent, spreading, acuminate: 

 male calyx 4 — 5-partite, segments broadly ovate, subrotund: 

 middle flower of the glomerules of either bract longer pedicelled 



