Ancislrocladus.] xxiv. dipterocarpe.e (oliver). 175 



A ^t S6 u U9 Ancistrocladus does not appear to me to have any affinity with Bipterocarneit 

 though the analogy, in respect of the accrescent calyx atid inflorescence, is curious. If 

 Uyrocarpea; be rightly included in Combretacece, perhaps Ancistrocladus might be appended 

 to that family as another anomalous ally. 



1- A. guineensis, Oik. A climbing shrub attaining 10-15 ft. Leaves 

 crowded at the extremities, broadly-oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed to the 

 petiole, repand-dentieulate or entire, 4-9 in. long, l|-3 in. broad ; petiole 

 deeply channelled or narrowly winged, varying up to | in., exstipulate. 

 rlowers small, in broadly spreading dichotomous terminal panicles exceeding 

 the leaves. Sepals ovate, obtuse, 3 inner rather larger. Petals patent, re- 

 curved, twice as long as the sepals, broadly obovate-elliptical. Filaments 

 glabrous, thickened below, very shortly connate and adnate to the base of 

 'he petals though easily separable, subulate and recurved above ; anthers 

 small, broad, muticous. Styles 3, distinct, articulated on the apex of a short, 

 I raised, columnar, fleshy, epigynous disk, caducous ; stigmas subreniform-ca- 

 Pitate. Fruit not seen. 



Vpper Guinea. Old Calabar, Mann! 



there is a specimen of the leafy extremity of a branch of an Ancistrocladus in the Kew 

 Herbarium, from the Niger {Barter), perhaps distinct from the above. It bears a strongly 

 c "r?ed hook aud the leaves are larger and more acute. 



Order XXV. MALVACEiE (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters). 



powers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, conjoined below, valvate in 

 Ovation. Petals 5, hypogynous, adnate to the base of the column, twisted 

 In the bud. Stamens' numerous, monadelphous. Column either trim- 

 Cat e, or toothed at the apex, or at other times dividing into numerous fila- 

 ments. Anthers oblong globose or reniform, spuriously 1-celled, bursting 

 l0n gitudinally. Thalamus (columella) more or less prolonged between the 

 Ca T>els. Ovary 2- or usually many-celled, entire or lobed. Carpels ver- 

 tiwllate. Style simple below, divided above, rarely entirely undivided; 

 st 'gmas capitate linear or grooved ; ovules l-oo, attached to the inner an<<le 

 j* the carpels, curved, ascending or horizontal. Fruit dry, rarely somewhat 

 ne %, of fe W or manv indehiscent or more or less 2-valved carpels, which 

 8e Parate when ripe from the columella or form a true, many-celled, locuhcidal 

 ^Psule. Seeds reniform or subglobose, smooth, tubercled, downy, or pro- 

 Jj«f with cottony hairs. Albumen generally scanty, sometimes abundant. 

 Embryo more or less curved. Cotyledons flat or folded, often wrapping 

 rou »d the radicle.— Herbs or soft-wooded trees or shrubs, their surface often 

 ^ered with soft stelliform pubescence. Leaves alternate, rarely sessile, 

 n a . 8 !>% palminerved, entire or more or less deeply lobed. Stipules free, de- 

 mons or persistent. Inflorescence definite. Flowers usually stalked, 

 gg sessile ; flower-stalks axillary solitary or fasciculate, often arranged in 

 «*mii,al ie ;1 f v or ultimately leafless clusters. Bractlets wanting or 2-J, 

 j* more, free* or adnate to the calyx, distinct from each other or connate form- 

 S a » epicalyx or involucel. 



f large and important Natural Order whose members are Nrfg«*j^*«r^^ 

 *P tl » the Arctic regions. The monadelphous stamens, oue-celled anthers, and valvate 



