94: iv". ANONACE-5;. (Ilook. f. & Tlioms.) [Lonchmcra. 



valvate*; inner smaller and broader. Stamens 8-12, loosely imbricate, broadly 

 ctineate, thick ; anther-cells lateral, introrse. Torus small, slightly concave, 

 pubescent. Ovary solitary, glabrous, sessile, contracted into a very short 

 style, stigma subcapitate ; ovules 2, superposed. ^^ Ripe carpels elliptic, api- 

 culate, succulent,. glabrous, 2-seeded. >SW/5 plano-convex ; testa osseous." 

 Maingay, 



1. Zi. leptopoda, //./. & T.; leaves oblong or elliptic obtusely acumi- 

 nate or acute. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A middle-sized tree; branches black, young granulate. Leaves 1\-^\>y ^-'^k 'J^r 

 concolorous, hardly shining, thin, coriaceous, base rounded or acute, reticulate on both 

 surfaces, nerves very slender, subhotizontal ; petiole \ in,, slender, naked. Fhtcers 

 ^ in. long ; peduncles 2-6, 4"! m., hoary ; bracts small, basal, obtuse. Sepals connate 

 below, tomcntose. Petals tomentose on both surfaces, inner like the outer but one-third 

 shorter and much broader. Ovary ovoid. — The fruits enclosed in a cover with the 

 specimens do not accord with Maingav's character (see Genus), they are lJ-14 ''^- ^ 

 elliptic-ovoid, top rounded, base rather contracted, walls obscurely warted. Sem 

 oblcng-cyHndric, apparently enclosed in a dry aril which adheres vertically to one side ot 

 the cavity; albumen horny, slightly ruminated; em'bryo half the length of the seed, 

 cotyledons linear-oblong, thin ; radicle cylindric, \ the length of the cotyledons. ' , 



Order V. MENISPERMACE^. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



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Climbing or twining rarely sarmentose shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire 

 or lobed, usually palminerved ; stipules 0. Flowers small or minute, soli- 

 tary fascicled cymose or racemed, dioecious, sometimes ;3-bracteolate. Sem^ 

 6 (rarely 1-4, or 9-12). usually free, imbricate iri 2-4 series, outer often 

 minute. Petals 6 (rarely or 1-5), free or connate. $ Flowers : Staincns 

 iypogy^^^^s, usually one opposite each petal, filaments free or connate; 

 anthers free or connate, 2-celled. Rudimentary carpels small or 0. $ Flowers: 

 Staminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 (rarely 1, or 6-12) ; style terminal, simple or 

 divided ; ovules solitary (2 in Fibrau7'ea\ usually amphitropous. K^l^ 

 carj>els drupaceous, with the style-scar subterminal/or by excentric growtn 

 subbasal. Seed ustially hooked or reniform, often curved round an intru- 

 sion of the endocarp {condyle,^ Miers), albumen even or ruminate or 0; coty- 

 ledons flat or semiterete, foliaceous or fleshy, appressed or spreading. -''* 

 large tropical Order; genera 32 ; species about 100. . ' 



In this order we adhere to the classification of the genera, and limitation ^^* V-^ 

 cies, adopted in our Flora Indica (1855), at variance as these are with our friend ^ • 



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Garden, and a review of Eichler's valuaile monograph of* the Brazilian spf c^^^ ^* 

 Martins' Floia Brasiliensis (1864). The divergence between Mr. Miers' conclusions^ 

 our own amounts to his adopting for the Indian plants of the Order, 6 tribe^s, 26 gen^ 

 and upwards of 00 species, as against our 4 tribes, 19 genera, and 35 species. ^^ y. 

 far from aflSrnnng that a few of our 35 species may not embrace two or ^^^\-^ 

 ■we find no evidence of this in the materials upon which Mr. Miers and ourselves d 

 worked. ^ 



Tribe! Tinosporeae. i^Yot^^r^ 3-merous. , Oi;aw5 usually 3. ^^^ 



with a subterminal rarely ventral or subbasal style-scar. Seed ^^*^?l.j- 

 subglobose, albumen copious or scanty ; cotyledons foliaceous, usually s" 

 ing laterally. 







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