Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 193 



Styles 3 rarely 4 ; calyx eglandular. 



Samaras with large membranous reticulate 



wings ... ... ... ... 3. Aspidopterys. 



Fruit of 2 or 3 turgid almost wingless cocci 4. Brachylophon. 



1. Tristellateia, Thoaars. 



Woody climbers. Leaves opposite or whorled ; petiole 1-2-glandu- 

 lar at the apex ; stipules ra.inute. Floioers yellow, in tei'minal or lateral 

 racemes. Calyx 5-partite, eglandular, or with minute glands. Petals 

 5, clawed. Stamens 10, all perfect ; filaments rigid, truncate and 

 articulate at the top, anthers acute. Ovary 3-lobed ; styles 1-2, slender, 

 one or more reduced to small papillae. Ripe carpels 3, each with about 

 3 or more wings, the whole forming a stellate fruit. Seed obovoid, 

 testa membranous ; cotyledons fleshy, hooked. — Distrib. About 8 

 species, natives of tropical Africa, Asia, and Australasia. 



1. Tkistellateia australasica, a. Rich. Sert. Astrol. 38 t. 15. Gla- 

 brous ; leaves elliptic, ovate, or oblong, acute, the base cuneate or rounded ; 

 main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, forming wide arches far from the margin, faint ; 

 length 1'75 to 35 in., breadch '75 to 1*25 in., petiole '25 to "35 in., eglandu- 

 lar or with only one gland. Racemes 2 to 6 in. long, few-flowered, terminal. 

 Floioers 1 in. in diam., their pedicels opposite, minutely 2-bracteolate 

 towai'ds the base. Petals ovate. Fruit '5 in. in diam., its wing linear- 

 oblong, coriacious, recui'ved or spreading. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 418; 

 Benth. Flor. Austral. I. 286. Platynema laurifoUum, W. & A. in Edin. 

 New Phil. Journ. 1833, 179 ; Prodr. 107 



Singapore ; Wight, Kurz, Anderson. Pangkore, Scortechini. Pahang, 

 Ridley. Distaib. — Malayan Archipelago, Australasia. 



2. HiPTAGE, Gaertner. 



Climbirtg or suberect shrubs. Leaves opposite, quite entii'e, coria- 

 ceous, eglandular, or with a row of remote intramai'ginal glands be- 

 neath ; stipules 0. Racemes tei-minal or axillary, simple or compound ; 

 peduncles erect, bracteate, jointed to the 2-bracteolate pedicels. Calyx 

 5-partite ; glands adnate to the pedicel, large. Petals 5, clawed, un- 

 equal, white, the odd one discoloured. Stamens 10, all fertile, declinate, 

 one much larger than the others ; filaments connate at the base. Ovary 

 with 3 appendiculate lobes ; styles I or 2 bearing stigmas, the others 

 rudimentary, all circinate. Fruit winged. Seed sub-globose, the 

 cotyledons unequal, thick. Distrib : four tropical Asiatic species. 

 Main nerves of leaves about 4 pairs, inflores- 

 cence tomentose or serioeaus, flowers "35 to 

 •5 in. in diam ... ... ... 1. H, aericea. 



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