Baccaiirea] XCYIII, EUPHORBIACEiS 563 



SuMiimalayan tract and outer valleys from Sikkim eastwards. Assam. Silliet. 

 East Bengal. Tippera. Burma, Upper and Lower. Specimens from Martaban (D.B. 

 1880) have sinuately dentate 1. Fl. Marcli, Pr. May. 2. B. flaccida, Muell. Arg. 

 Tenasserim. Similar to 1, bracts of $ fl. short, very deciduous. 3. B. parviflora, 

 Muell. Arg. — Tenasserim, Malay Penins. and Archip. L. thin oblanceolate or 

 obovate, bracts minute, S racemes very slender, ? sepals linear. Fr. narrow-ellipsoid. 



4 B. courtallensis, Muell. Arg.— Syn. Baccaiirea sapida, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 280; 

 Plerardia macrostacliys^ Wight Ic. t. 1912 S ; t. 1913 $ . Mutta tJmri, Miitta Jceipii, 

 Mai. "Western Ghats from North Kanara southwards, common in evergreen forest. 

 A large or middle-sized tree, 1. glabrous, elliptic, shortly acuminate, sometimes opj^o- 

 site, blade 3-8, pet. J-IJ in. Fl. hairy, bracts minute, S reddish in long narrow 

 racemiform panicles densely crowded on the trunk, branches of panicles short, 3-5-fld. 

 ? on short pedicels in slender racemes, 8-12 in., sepals J-J in. long. Fr. bright 

 crimson, 1 in. diam., subglobose with 3 ridges, hanging in great profusion all round 

 the trunk, which appears as a mass of crimson. Hooker, in Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 371 refers 

 Wight Ic. t. 1913 to B. sapida. 



8. APOROSA, Blume; F^l. Brit. Ind. v. 345. 



Trees, usually evergreen, 1. alternate. M. small, usually dioecious, apetalous, 

 disk 0. cJ : in axillary catkin-like often clustered spikes, 1-3 fl. in tbe axils 

 of large imbricating bracts. Sepals 3-6, usually 4, stamens 1-5, central 

 filaments slender. $ : in short spikes or racemes, peduncles clothed with 

 numerous imbricating bracts, sepals 3-6, smalL Ovary 2- (rarely 1- or 3-) 

 celled, stigmas plumose, spreading or recurved, simple or 2-4-clef t, ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Fr. bursting ii-regularly from the l3ase upwards. Cotyledons flat 

 broad, in fleshy albumen. Species 30-40, Indo-Malayan region. 



Kokra^ Beng. and Yemeln^ Burm. are used indiscriminately for several 

 species. 



A. Ovary pubescent or tomentose. 



(a) 9 fl. sessile, 1. glabrous beneath. 



a. Fr. ovoid. 



1. A. Roxburghii, Baill. Veim. Yemein^ Burm. Subhimal. tract from Sikkim eastwards 

 in Sal and mixed forest. Orissa. Assam. Khasi hills. Oachar. Gomillah. Chittagong — 

 Burma, Upper and Lower, common in Engdain. A small or middle-sized tree, glabrous 

 except inflorescence. L. elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or obscurely 

 sinuate-toothed, blade 4-6, pet. J-| in. $ spikes clustered, 1-1^ in. long, bracts broad, 

 ciliate, sepals pubescent. Fr. ovoid-oblong, J-], in. long. 2. A. oblonga, Muell. Arg. 

 Amherst, Tenasserim. Glabrous, 1. elliptic-oblong, blade 3-5, pet. -J-l in. 3. A. 

 Clellandii, Hook. f. Rangoon. Glabrous, 1. lanceolate, thinly coi"iaceous, blade 5-6, pet. 

 \-\ in., sec. n. very slender. Fr. J-| in. long, pericarp very thin, fragile. 4. A. 

 glabrifolia, Kurz. Nicobars. Branchlets robust, shoots tomentose, 1. broad-elliptic, 

 sparsely hairy beneath, blade 3-5, pet. -| in., fr. § in. finely pubescent. 5. A. acmmnata, 

 Thwaites. Vern. Nir Vittil, Mai. Tinnevelli and Travancore ghats 3-3,500 ft. Oeylon. 

 A shrub or small tree, youngest shoots silky, 1. thin, glabrous, lanceolate, caudate- 

 acuminate, blade 3-4, narrowed into pet. J- J in. <? catkins J-j in., fr. § in. long, red, 

 hairy, pericarp fleshy. 



fS. Fr. globose or nearly so. 



6. A. macropliylla, Muell. Arg. Ifigyin^ Burm. Eng forest of Upper and Lower 

 Burma. A small tree (deciduous, Kurz), perfectly glabrous, save inflorescence, branch- 

 lets stout, 1. coriaceous, ovate, base deeply cordate, blade 9-24, pet. 2-8 in. long. Fr. 

 sessile, yellow, velvety, J in. diam. 7. A. villosTila, Kurz. Yern. Thitsat, Burm. Anda- 

 mans. Lower Burma. A small tree, youngest shoots hairy, 1. elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 blade 5-7, pet J-1 in. long. Fr. apioulate, J in. diam. 



(b) 9 fl. sessile, 1. tomentose beneath. 



8. A villosa, Baill. Vern. Ingyin, Burm. Burma, Lower and Upper, in Eng forest. 

 —Cochin China. A middle-sized deciduous tree, bark thick, grey, deeply cracked, 

 branchlets, petioles and leaves beneath softly hairy. L. rigidly coriaceous, broadly 

 elliptic-oblong, quite entire, blade 4-9, pet. J-l in. long. ^ spikes |-2 in. long, bracts 

 hairy. $ spikes few-fld., sessile, often on the old wood, ovary densely rusty -villous. 

 Fr. ovoid, densely tawny tomentose, J in. long, usually 1-seeded. 



(c) $ fl. pedicelled. 



