110 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. ' 



glabrous ovary ; stigma small, minutely lobed. Fruit ovoid, glabrescent 

 •6 in. long, ■with the persistent disc at its apex and the slightly ac- 

 crescent calyx at its base. Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 235 : Valeton 

 Olacinese 93. 



Nicobar Islands, Kurz. 



Var. Andamanica. Leaves ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, main 

 nerves 4 to 6 pairs, spreading, not pale underneath. 



Andaman Islands : King's Collectors. 



The specimens on which Kurz founded this species are in the 

 Calcutta Herbarium. They were collected in the Nicobar Islands al- 

 thouo'h Kui'z, by a slip, attributes them to the Andamans. These 

 Nicobar specimens are distinguished from all which have, since 

 Kurz's time, been collected in the Andamans (where the plant is 

 very common) by the smaller number of nerves in the leaves, which 

 are moreover, ascending and pale beneath, whereas these from the An- 

 damans have more numei-ous nerves which are spreading and are not 

 pale beneath. 



3. Anacolosa heptandra, Maing. mss. ex Hook. Fl. Ind. I, 581. 

 A shrub or tree ; young branches stout, with pale scurfy bark. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute at base and apex, glabrous ; 

 main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, ascending, obsolete on the upper, rather 

 prominent on the lower surface ; length 6 or 7 in., breadth 2-25 to 3 in., 

 petiole '3 in. Flowers in crowded axillary cymes not much exceeding the 

 petioles ; pedicels short, rufous-pubescent like the calyx, ebracteolate. 

 Calyx cupular, with 6 minute distant teeth. The other parts of the 

 Flower as in A- imherula, but the ovary narrower, and the anthers more 

 hairy, not mex-ely tufted with hairs. Valeton Olacineae, 93. 

 Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 368. 



This species of which I have seen only two specimens (neither of 

 which is in fruit) comes very near to A. piiherula. The young branches 

 however, are thicker, with paler bark, and have the anthers more hairy 

 than in that species. 



12. Platea, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves entire, coriaceous. Male floivers in short axillary 

 interrupted-glomerulose spikes ; the females in shorter cymes. Floivers 

 polygamo-dioecious. Sepals 5, distinct, imbricate, small. Petals 5, 

 united below into a tube, the teeth valvate ; in the female deciduous 

 or absent. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals and inserted at their 

 bases • the filaments short, anthers ovoid, 2-celled. Ovary in the female 

 floiver cylindric, oblong, obtuse, crowned by the large discoid stigma, 

 1-celled ; the ovules 2, pcnduloud. Drtope baccate, the endocarp woody. 



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