CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACEAL 
315 
Exccecaria.] 
to i*5 in. wide; petioles -I in. long. Racemes axillary, -5 in. long, 
sessile occasionally with a side-branch. Bracts i-flowered serrulate, 
bracteoles lanceolate erose. Male sepals oblong, spine-toothed. 
Stamens 2. Female sepals ovate, edge toothed with spines inside 
at base. Hab. Open forests and woods. Singapore, Pulau Brani. 
Perak, Lenggong; Kwala Temengoh (Ridley). Province Wellesley, 
Bukit Juru. Penang (Wallich) Penara Bukit; Pulau Betong 
(Curtis). Distrib. Siam. Native name: Kugah. 
Insufficiently Known. 
E. sp. Hook. fit. F.B.I. v. 475. 
Shrub 8 to 12 ft. tall, glabrous, branches terete. Leaves 
membranous ovate-lanceolate acuminate, edge slightly waved, 
base acute or round ; nerves very many slightly arched ; 4 to 6 in. 
long; petioles -25 to -5 in. long, slender. Capsules sessile clustered 
in leaf-axils, *3 in. wide, 2- or 3-Iobed; cocci globose smooth. 
Hab. Perak, Larut at 2000 to 3500 ft. altitude (Kunstler 2344). 
I have not seen this species and can add no more to Hooker's description. 
Cultivated Species. 
E. bicolor Hassk. Retzia i. 158. 
A shrub usually about 5 ft. tall with lanceolate leaves deep red 
beneath and short spikes is common in cultivation. The original 
home is doubtful. The latex is poisonous. 
70. SAPIUM, P. Br. 
Trees (or shrubs). Leaves alternate entire or serrate. Flowers 
in terminal simple or panicled spikes or racemes, apetalous small. 
Male flowers in upper part of spike several in a bract. Females 
in lower part or separate spikes, one to a bract. No disc, or 
pistillode. Males; calyx shortly 2- or 3-lobed or toothed or split 
to base in to 2 or 3 valvate sepals. Stamens 2 or 3 free; anther- 
cells ovoid contiguous. Female flowers; calyx trifid. Ovary 
2- or 3-celled, cells i-ovuled. Styles free or connate at base entire 
Capsule pulpy or crustaceous or woody. Seeds globose. Species 
100, all tropics. 
Fruit small -5 in. through or less. 
Leaves ovate not glaucous beneath; fruit pulpy . (1) S. baccatum 
Leaves elliptic, base narrowed glaucous beneath; fruit 
tricoccous . . . (2) S. discolor 
Fruit woody, 75 in. through; leaves lanceolate crenulate {3) S. indicum 
(1) S. baccatum Roxb. FI. hid. iii. 694; Hook. F.B.I. v. 470. 
Big tree laticiferous. Leaves thickly membranous oblong to 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate entire, base round or narrowed; 
nerves 9 or 10 pairs paler beneath; 3*5 to 7 in. long, 175 to 3 in. 
wide; petioles 1 to 2-5 in. long. Racemes in spreading panicles 
