Breynia.] cxxvm. euphorbiace^e. 219 
quite small. Hab. Open country thickets; Singapore, Eskbank, 
Tanglin (Hullett); Pulau Buru. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Sulu 
(Cantley). Perak (Scortechini); UluTemengoh. Dindings, Lumut. 
Penang (Wallich). Distrib. India, China, Malay isles. Native 
name: Suruyian. 
(5) B. reclinata Hook. fit. F.B.I. v. 331. 
Erect shrub, about 6 ft. tall, glabrous, branches spreading. 
Leaves coriaceous deep above, glaucous beneath; nerves 4 to 6 
pairs; 1 to 1*5 in. long, *5 to *75 in. wide; petioles very short. 
Flowers solitary, yellow decurved. Male calyx hemispheric, mouth 
crenate. Female calyx turbinate shortly 6-lobed. Fruit blood- 
red small, globose, -15 in. through, calyx very slightly enlarged. 
Hab. Common in thickets, edges of woods, Singapore, Tanglin; 
Changi; Pulau Ubin. Pahang, Kwala Pahang. Malacca, Mt. 
Ophir; Sungei Hudang (Derry); Pulau Besar (Griffith); Malaka 
Pindah (Cantley). Negri Sembilan* Gunong Berimbun (Cantley). 
Tringganu, Bundi (Rostados). Kelantan, Kwala Lebir (Gimlette). 
Distrib. Sumatra, Java. Native names: Poko Ambin Kra; 
Sumbar; Saga (Kelantan), Hujan Panas (lit. warm rain, i.e. drops 
of blood spilt in a fight), referring to the little blood-red fruits. 
Name also applied to B. rhamnoides. 
(6) B. Keithii Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. By. 59, p. 174. 
Shrub, glabrous. Leaves membranous drying black, glaucous 
beneath elliptic blunt sub-acute, 75 to 1 in. long, *5 in. wide; 
petioles *12 in. long. Male flowers turbinate. Female flowers 
on short lateral branches, 3 together, cymose shortly pedicelled, 
minute. Bracts linear setaceous. Calyx cupular entire. Fruit 
globose, -12 in. through, pedicel as long terminated by 3 short 
setaceous styles; calyx split into 5 unequal ovate-triangular 
acute lobes, more than half as wide as the fruit. Seeds 2 in a 
cell, yellowish white pubescent. Hab. Open country in the north. 
Kedah, Alor Sta. Setul at Bukit Bunga (Ridley). Distrib. 
Siam. 
15 . SAUROPUS, Bl. 
Small shrubs or shrublets. Leaves alternate distichous mem¬ 
branous. Stipules minute. Flowers small axillary apetalous, 
solitary or clustered. Male flowers; calyx saucer-shaped, urceo- 
late or turbinate, 6-lobed. Stamens 3, filaments connate in a very 
short trigonous column; anthers sessile on the angles of the column. 
Pistillode o. Female flowers; calyx 6-cleft persistent accrescent. 
Ovary ovoid, top round or concave, 3-celled; ovules 2 in a cell. 
Styles 3 sessile depressed spreading with 3 recurved arms. Fruit 
globose, depressed, epicarp fleshy or coriaceous 6-valved or dehisc¬ 
ing irregularly with 6 trigonous crustaceous cocci. Species 20, 
Indo-Malayan. 
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