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CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACE^. 
[. Baccaurea. 
deep claret-colour, acid, i in. long. Seed one. Hab. Lowland 
woods; common. Singapore, Garden Jungle; Changi (Hullett); 
Toas. Johor, Mt. Austin; Bukit Tanah Abang (Kelsall). Malacca, 
Brisu; Ayer Panas (Derry); Bukit Sadanen. Negri Sembilan, 
Bukit Payong (Cantley). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur; Semangkok 
Pass; Ulu Selangor (Goodenough). Perak, Larut and Batang 
Padang district (Kunstler); Tapah (Wray); Sungkai (Burn- 
Murdoch). Penang (Wallich); Telok Bahang (Curtis). Kedah, 
Alor Sta. Distrib. Sumatra, Tonka. Native names: Setambon 
Merah; S. Lalang or Jantan. Use : The wood is extremely hard 
and yellow, and the little tree forms strong knotted clubs, used 
as walking-sticks. 
The male spikes are borne on tubercles on the upper part of the stem 
and are scented like cowslips. It is not rare to find them on the branches 
also, especially in Penang. They are generally yellow, but I found them red in 
the Semangkok Pass. The female spikes are quite at the base of the same tree, 
very numerous, so that the fruit spikes form a large mass on the ground. 
Pax’s B. singaporica is from description a fruiting specimen of this 
species. 
(2) B. Scortechinii Hook. fit. F.B.L v. 368. 
Small tree; branchlets hairy. Leaves sub-membranous obovate 
sub-rhomboid cuspidate, base acute; nerves 7 to 8 pairs slender; 
5 to 6 in. long. Males very slender white-tomentose. Flowers 
shortly pedicelled minute. Female racemes 4 to 6 in. long. Sepals 
•3 in. long, hairy. Ovary ovoid silky contracted into a stout 
style with 3 recurved bifid stigmas. Fruit oblanceolate-obovoid, 
•5 in. long. Hab. Perak (Scorteehini). 
This appears to have the same habit as B. parviflora with the leaves in 
tufts at the tips of the branches. Hooker says racemes from the branches, 
though in the specimens I have seen at Kew they all appear to have been from 
the stem as in B. parviflora, but B. parviflora does sometimes have racemes 
from the branches. 
(3) B. Wrayi King, Hook. fit. F.B.I. v. 374. 
Tree 60 to 80 ft. tall, thick; branchlets hairy. Leaves thin, 
Hiptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate cuspidate-acuminate, base acute, 
glabrous or midrib sparsely hairy beneath; nerves 7 to 9 pairs 
slender, transverse nervules fine; 6 to 7 in. long, 2-5 in. wide; 
petioles pubescent, -5 to 1 in. long. Stipules broadly ovate, 
villous. Male flowers unknown. Female racemes villous-tomen- 
tose, rather stout, from trunk, pedicels very short. Sepals *13 
in. long, linear-oblong blunt tomentose. Ovary ovoid hairy. 
Stigmas 3, depressed bifid. Fruit-racemes 6 to 12 in. long, stout 
tomentose; pedicels *1 to -25 in. long. Fruit 1 to 1*5 in. long, 
ellipsoid bright red, 3-eelled; pericarp thick. Seeds 1-5 in. long, 
ovate acute compressed. Hab. Perak, Thaiping Hill Gardens 
(Wray); Larut (Kunstler). Penang, Waterfall (Curtis). Adang 
islands, Rawei island. Use : Fruit eaten by Malays. 
( 4 ) B. leucodermis Hook. fit. MSS. 
Small tree 10 to 15 ft. tall, shrubby. Branchlets white. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, glabrous lanceolate equally narrowed to both 
