CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACEAJ. 
Buxus.] 
183 
wide; petioles -25 in. long, winged to base. Male flowers on 
pedicels -i in. long. Sepals triangular ovate blunt. Female 
flowers terminal on racemes -12 in. long. Styles short thick 
recurved. Hab. On bare rocks by the sea, Lankawi, Dayong 
Bunting (Curtis). 
3. BRIDELIA, Willd. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate entire, blowers small 
or minute in axillary spicate clusters bracteate, sessile or very 
shortly pedicelled. Calyx 5'^^, lobes valvate. Petals much 
smaller. Disc broad pulvinate or adnate to calyx in male; 
conical truncate membranous enclosing ovary in female. Stamens 
5 ; filaments connate below with a pistillode on the columnar base, 
free above spreading. Ovary i-(rarely 3-)celled; ovules 2 in a cell. 
Styles 2 forked; Drupe with 1 or 2 one-seeded cocci or pyrenes. 
Species 30, tropics of Africa, Asia, Australia. 
Flower-clusters in axils of stipular bracts. 
Female disc bristly. 
Leaves red-pubescent beneath . 
Leaves glaucous glabrous beneath 
Flower-clusters without stipular bracts. 
Disc glabrous. 
Leaves lanceolate glaucous beneath . 
Leaves ovate or elliptic not glaucous. 
Glabrous beneath . . ■ 
Leaves tomentose or pubescent beneath. 
Fruit sub-globose . 
Fruit elliptic. 
Leaves softly red-tomentose beneath 
Leaves minutely pubescent beneath. 
Flowers small, female petals red-hairy 
Flowers minute; petals glabrous 
(1) B. stipularis 
(2) B. retusa 
(3) B. tomentosa 
{4) B. ovata 
(5) B. pustulata 
(6) B. cinnamomea 
(7) B. Griffithii 
(8) B. penangiana 
(1) B. stipularis Bl. Bijdr. 597; Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 270. 
X large bbsh about 12 ft. tall; branchlets velvety tomentose 
(red when dry). Leaves thinly coriaceous elliptic blunt, bases 
broad above glabrous, beneath red-tomentose; nerves 9 to 10 
pairs and small reticulations conspicuously elevate beneath; i *5 
to in long, 1 to 1-5 in. wide, the terminal shoot-leaves smaller; 
petioles *i to'-2 in. long, tomentose. Heads of flowers axillary 
on the ends of shoots. Bracts and stipules ovate hairy. Calyx 
*1 in long, lobes lanceolate acute glabrous enlarging to -2 in. long 
in fruit Petals orbicular. Disc pulvinate in male, urceolate in 
female with a ring of bristles at base. Drupe oblong -4 in. long, 
green turning black. Hab. Open country often near streams 
common. Singapore, Macpherson Road; Galang Johor, Batu 
Pahat. Muar (Curtis). Pahang, Pulau Rumput, Pahang River. 
Malacca, Merlimau (Cantley, Griffith, Maingay). Selangor Port 
Swettenham (BurkiU). Perak (Scortechim) Penang (WaUich). 
Distrib. India, Malay islands, Philippines. Native names . Chm- 
darai Gajah; Kenidei Babi. 
