Baccaurea.] 
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Male spikes axillary red-tomentose, 1 to 3 in. long, panicled; 
flowers pedicelled in tufts small tomentose. Sepals 4 to 6, very 
unequal. Stamens 5 or 6. Fruiting spikes 6 in. long, scurfy. 
Capsule globose; pericarp crustaceous hairy within, -6 in. through. 
Hab. Lowland forest, Singapore, Garden Jungle. Malacca (Main- 
gay). Perak, Larut (Kunstler). 
(11) B. Hookeri Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. l.c. 232. Baccaurea 
B. Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 373. 
Tree 50 to 70 ft. tall, stem 10 to 15 in. through. Leaves cori¬ 
aceous ovate sub-acute, base rounded, edge minutely indented 
with hairy glands in the notches, above glabrous beneath, very 
minutely scurfy on the 11 pairs of nerves when young, nerves 
parallel conspicuous; 6 to 7 in. long, 3 to 3*5 in. wide; petioles 
1 -5 to 2 in. long. Flowers unknown. Capsules in long racemes 
7 or 8 together from a bough, racemes 9 in. long, puberulous, 
ovoid 3-celled dark green oblong-ovoid, *5 in. long; stigma sessile 
minute trifid. Calyx of 4 or 5 ovate lobes. Seeds oblong, -25 in. 
long. Hab. Forests, lowland wet ground. Singapore, Bukit 
Mandai; Chan Chu Kang (Ridley). Perak, Larut (Kunstler). 
(12) B. malayana King, Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 374. Hedycarpus 
malayanus Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 118. 
A big tree 60 to 80 ft. tall. Leaves coriaceous glabrous broadly 
elliptic-oblong or lanceolate blunt, base acute or round; nerves 
7 to 10 pairs strongly elevate; 6 to 10 in. long, 4 in. wide; petioles 
1 to 2 in. long. Panicles spike-like slender, 3-25 in. long, solitary 
or fascicled on the branches, pubescent. Bracts at base of cymes 
ovate glabrous. Male flowers in short velvety cymes *i in. long, 
pedicelled. Sepals 5, very small triangular-ovate velvety. 
Stamens 10; filaments very short. Fruit-raceme short; pedicels 
•25 to *5 in. long. Capsule ellipsoid, 2 in. long, or sub-globosely 
ovoid appressed white-tomentose 2- to 3-celled, dehiscent; style 
minute with 3 recurved bifid stigmas; pericarp very thick woody, 
•25 to *3 in. thick. Seed 1 in. long, orbicular in 2-celled fruit, 
sub-trigonously oblong in 3-celled fruit, pulp white sweet. Hab. 
Forests and in cultivation; Pahang, Tahan Woods. Malacca 
(Maingay). Perak, Goping and Larut (Kunstler). Native name: 
Tampoi. Use: Fruit eaten. 
(13) B. macrophylla Miill. Arg. in DC. Prod. xvii. 460. 
Tree 60 to 80 ft. tall, stem 8 to 12 in. through. Leaves cori¬ 
aceous elliptic or obovoid-oblong, blunt or shortly cuspidate 
acuminate, base shortly narrowed; nerves 10 to 12 pairs strongly 
elevate beneath; 7 to 12 in. long, 4 to 5 in. wide; petioles 3-5 in. 
long. Stipules coriaceous, broad oblong blunt, *25 in. long on 
terminal bud. Male racemes 2 to 3 in. long. Flowers very small, 
sessile on the tips of very short branchlets. Sepals 4, rounded 
pubescent sub-equal. Female racemes from stem. Sepals oblong 
blunt. Fruit *75 to 1 in. long, yellow splitting irregularly. Seed 
flat curved with orange aril. Hab. Forests, Singapore, Selitar. 
