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XXXIX. OLACiNEiE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 693 



Penanq, Porter, &c. ; Malacca, Griffith,— Distrib, Java. 



^i^z-aftcA^^ studded with minute prickles; shoots, petioles, and nerves of leaves ferru- 

 ginous hispid. Leaves very large, orbicular, cordate, palminerved, lobed halfway down: 



oDes obloug-obovate, acute; petiole 4-6 in. Male fls. in long, axillary, dense, 

 ^aached racemes, each peditel supporting a globose head of flowers. Ihwers ^\ in. 

 4^ \f ^1^7^ ol^^vate, concave, hairy segments. Corolla longer than the calyx, deeply 

 ^-parted, lobes lanceolate acute setose. Stamem 4, filaments ;;labrous; anthers apicu- 

 wte. liudiment of ovary minute, hairv. FK.\fALE fl. not seen. Drupes 1^ by 1 in., 

 oblong-turhinate, surmounted by the thickened base of the style and covered by dense 

 rahulate bristles, some of which are barbed and have a transparent point. Seed peu- 

 Qiuousj radicle superior, very short; cotyledons elongate, linear-oblong, leafy. 



' ' 19. MZQUSXiZA, Meissner. 



. '^^inibing shrobs. Wood with large vessels. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 ^^ple, membranous, usually palminerved. Peduncles supra-axillary, race- 



Male 



Flowers dicBcious, capitate. 



•^^j^^ fl. : (Jalvx minute, •i-5-tid. Corolla separated from the calyx by 

 ?^f*^? pedicel-like stipes (corolla-tube?), limb 4-5-lobed, lobes valvate, apex 

 inttexed. Stamens isomerous and alternate with the lobes of the corolla, 

 D^aments y short; anthers introrse. Female fl. : Cahjx as in the male, 



yOTOlld not riamnTmrl 4^r/^-rvn flirt /^olxr-c lr»Vkno froo r\T -nAarlw on nlfimafplv rp- 



^^xea iilaminodes 4-5 



ovules 



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Sedulous from the apex of the cavity, raphe dorsal, micropyle superior. 



Z^^P^ oblong, more or less compressed, surrounded, at the base by the 



pemstent calyx, mesocarp thin, endocarp crustaceous externally rugose. 



^> solitary, pendulous albumen fleshy rugulose ; radicle superior; 



Jfyledons elliptic, thick, leafy flat. — Distrie. Species 5, (perhaps 



*" lonns of one variable species, Baillm), distributed in India and the 

 Archipelago. 



jTie materials in herbaria are not good, and the structure of the male flowers espe- 

 ^'7 requires further examination in a fresh state. 



^' SI. Kleinii, Meissn. Gen. 152 ; leaves otovate-lanceolate shortl 

 ^oruptly acuminate subentire or crenulate. Miquelia assamica, j 

 f^ntphia, iv. 37. Jenkinsia assamica, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Ui... _ . 

 ri' M^^ ^0^"^- 370, t. 5:i7, f. 2. Araliacea? Kleinii, W. & A. Prodr. i. 

 "''^ fhytocrene sp. Wight lU. ii. 62. 

 ; ^""f «, (?rtj^(A ; Khasia Mt8, ^. / ^- r. , . ,v 



^labrescent. Branches strigose when young. Leaves 7-8 by 3 in., glabrous, base 

 p^nng, rarely subhastate : petiole 11-2 in. Peduncles of male plant 1-2 lu., bhform. 

 Ta^r* '"^i'tate, I in. Calyx minute, 3-5-fid. Corolla 4-.'>-p;irt€d, lobes oblong, free, 

 /J* , -^'^ments very short, anthers elongate. Rudiment of pistil depressed. 

 iZTa "if female plant short, thick. Cal>/x minute, 4-5-lobed. Corolla 4-5-parted, 

 gejTf/'^^exed, greenish, Staminodes minute. Ovary ovoid, apex truncate; stigma 

 ""e^ 4-lobed. Drupe | by i in. subsessile, yellowish, obliquely ovoid. 



**• dentata, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 211, t. 23: leaves 

 jng acuminate remotely and coarsely toothed, base truncate cordate. 



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Bedd 



JLur2<^« terete, glabrous. Leaves 8 by 3 J in., membranous glabrous ; petiole 2 in. 

 Petinl *^*Fate on supra-axillary racemose peduncles which are shorter than the 

 S fl 1 ,^^wer-bud8 club-shaped, truncate. . Calyx subcampanulate, 4-toothed. 

 nidime . '* lanceolate. Stanieas 4, anthers oblong, base sagittate. P.std minute, 



lentary. 



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