NO. 4 



THli CKNirS AULACOCARPUS I'lTlIER 



truncate at the base, narrowly acuminate at tip, light green above, 

 paler and sometimes brownish beneath. Costa impressed above, very 

 l)rominent beneath ; primary veins numerous, almost straight and 

 parallel, slightly prominent above and underneath. 



Flowers single or aggregate at nodes on old wood (never on the 

 year's growth). Pedicels slender, 12 to 15 nmi. long, bearing at the 

 middle one pair of small bractlets, these clasping", ovate-acute, per- 

 sistent, abotit 2 mm. long. Receptacle funnel-sha])ed or obconic, 

 growing much above the ovary. Sepals 5, coriaceous, thick, ovate- 

 triangular and acute at the tip, caducous, about 6 mm. long and 4 

 mm. broad at the base. Petals 5, retiexed, pink, irregularly and broadly- 

 ovate, apiculate, with a short, broad claw and a pair of rounded 

 basal winglets ; margin irregularly denticulate or sublacerate ; length 

 II mm., breadth 9 mm. Stamens 10, inserted on margin of recepta- 

 cle and alternately opposite to sepals and petals; filaments about 10 



Floral details of Aiilococarpus complctens: a, petal; b, stamen; fc^ anther, 

 ventral side; b", anther, dorsal side; c, cross-section of ovary. Enlarged 4 

 times. 



mm. long, bending outwards ; anthers 6 to 6.5 mm. long, golden 

 yellow, basifixed, introrse, with a large ovate, glandular, porelike 

 structure at about the middle of the ventral side, and four small 

 glands near the tip ; cells longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 5-celled, 

 each cell with 5 or 4 ovules : style glabrous, terete, truncate, about 

 y.~, mm. long. 



Fruit dry, 4 to i -celled, globose-depressed in the first case, with 

 the cells showing outside, globose and crowned with the cuplike re- 

 ceptacular overgrowth when i -celled; pericarp thick, hard, greenish 

 outside at maturity ; cells i-seeded. Seeds large, ovoid and slightlx- 

 compressed laterally, their length 11 mm., the longest diameter 9 

 mm. 



