Anfidesma.] ^ cxxxv. guPHOnBIAOEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 355 
-lobed or -partite. Disbentireorlobed. Stamens 2-5, rarely more, inserted 
on or around the disk, often irregularly, inflexed in bud; anthers lunate or 
didymous, connective thickened; cells globose, approximate or distant. 
Pistillode minute, clavate or globose or 0, rarely 2-fid, glabrous or hairy. 
Fem. ri. Calyx of the male. Disk usually annular or pulvinate. Ovary l- 
(rarely more-)celled ; stigmas 2-4, usually short, 2-fid or 2-partite ; ovules 2, 
pendulous. Fruit a small more or less compressed drupe, crowned with the 
sublateral or terminal stigmas. Seed small, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 
prea flat—Species about 60, Tropical Asia, Africa, Australia and the 
acific. 
Owing to the minuteness of the flowers, and the frequent impossibility of matching 
the sexes of Herbarium specimens, I am unable to limit and define the forms of this 
most difficult genus with much confidence. Comparatively few of Wallich's specimens 
Were examined by Tulasne or Mueller, who are the chief authorities for the Indian 
Species. I expect several of these which are not hitherto identified with previously 
(often imperfectly) described Malay Island ones, will prove to be the same with them. 
'The Stipules, the length of the pedicels of the male flowers, the size and form of the 
bracts, and the depth of the calyx-lobes are all variable. In De Candolle’s Pro- 
dromus too much importance is attached to the number of stamens and the division 
of the calyx, whether as to depth or number of lobes, as affording sectional characters ; 
and I am not satisfied with the more restricted use I have made of the same modi- 
ations of the calyx. The fruit may probably prove to afford the best sectional 
Characters, 
Series I. Leaves very large, 10-18 in. long. Fruit large, 1-l in. long. 
ee also 23. acuminatum, and 94. martabanicum). 
l. A. longipes, Hook. f.; branches slender and leaves puberulous 
beneath, leaves 10-12 in. oblong-obovate base rounded or cordate, nerves 
20 pairs, fem. racemes very long slender simple pubescent flowering erect 
fruiting pendulous, fem. fl. minute pedicels very short greatly lengthened in 
Uit, ovary tomentose, fruit iin. obliquely ovoid flat rugose, stigmas very 
re subterminal. 
ERAK, King’s Collector. . . 
, A shrub or tree with a simple stem; branches whitish and petioles and pedicels 
midrid above and nerves beneath finely pubescent. Leaves membranous, 3-6 in. 
Toad, nerves 15-920 pairs; petiole stout, }-} in.; stipules not seen. Racemes 
Peduncled ; pedicels filiform, 4—4 in.; bracts very minute. Fem. fl. j in.; sepas 4, 
ovate, acute ; stigmas acute, spreading; disk glabrous. Fruit bright red, margins 
very acute, faces puberulous deeply impressed, pericarp thin.—I assume ne 
Owering and fruiting specimens to be conspecific, and that the pedicels lengt en 
described, but I have seen only flowering and fruiting individuals (apparently of the 
Same species), 
2. A. pachystachys, Hook. f.; glabrous, or nearly so, branches 
stout, leaves 12-18 in obovate. or des Taneoolate cuspidately acuminate 
ase narrowed acute or rounded, nerves 17-20 pairs slender, petiole ver y 
‘tout, stipules large foliaceous, spikes solitary simple, male filiform, EN 
Sessile pubescent, fruiting female erect very stout, fruit $ in. very shor nd 
Pedicelled obliquely ovoid compressed reticulate, stigmas very minute su 
“*rminal.—Antidesma ? Wall. Cat. 8569. » 
ENANG, Wallich. PERAK ; at Larut, King’s Collector. . 
b A shrub, 6-8 ft. ; branches as thick as ‘a swan's quill, bark white. Leaves mem- 
enous, 4-6 in. diam., quite glabrous on both surfaces; petiole 9-1 um er es 
4-23 M., obliquely lanceolate, acuminate, many-nerved. Male spikes 10— el; 
pendulous, glabrous ; bracts very small; flowers jy in. broad ; calyx cupular obtusely 
1-6-lobed ' to the middle ; stamens 4-5, short; disk hirsute; pistillode clavate. 
