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Andamans or Tenasserim ; Heifer (Kew Distrib.), No. 817. — DlS- 

 TR[B. Sumatra ; Lebong Moesie, Teysmann. 



I include this species here although it is not clear whether Heifer's 

 specimen was collected in the Andamans or in the Tenasserim Province 

 of Burmah. This differs from G. longe-racemosa by its shorter more 

 slender racemes, and much smaller flowers. Other differences will no 

 doubt be found when both plants are properly collected. At present 

 the materials of S. gracile are very poor indeed. They are, however, 

 sufficient to demonstrate that the plant so long known as Phlehoca- 

 lymna Griffithii does not belong to the same genus as the specimens on 

 which Miquel founded his genus Goiwcaryum. 



16. Phttocrbne, Wall. 



Climbing shrubs, usually more or less hairy, often prickly ; wood 

 ■with very large porous vessels and thick medullary rays, but no annual 

 rings. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or palmately-lobed. Floioers 

 dioecious, monochlamydeous ; male in small globose clusters borne on 

 long branching spikes ; female in large solitai-y globose pedunculate 

 Leads. Male flowers each with an involucre of 3-5 free pieces ; the perianth 

 single, of 4 pieces, free, or united below and. deeply 4-lobed, valvate. 

 Stamens as many as the pieces of the perianth and alternate with them, 

 the filaments hypogynous ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, dehiscing longitu- 

 dinally ; pollen grains globose, the rudimentary pistil small. Female 

 flowers without involucels ; the perianth as in the males, more or less 

 persistent in the fruit ; staminodes minute, tooth-like, as many as the 

 pieces of the perianth, or absent. Pistil sessile, 1-celled, villous ; style 

 thick, tapering ; stigma large, sub-capitate or discoid, lobed or emar- 

 ginate; ovules 2, collateral, suspended fi'om near the apex of the cavity, 

 raphe dorsal, micropyle superior. Drupes many, in globose heads, 

 bristly or echinate ; stone hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded, pitted externally. 

 Seed pendulous ; embryo as long as the fleshy albumen ; radicle superior, 

 short; cotyledons large, flat, appressed. — Distrib. Species 8, all natives 

 of India and the Malayan Archipelago. 



There is a difference of opinion as to the nature of the organs at 

 the base of the flowers, some authors regarding them as a calyx, while 

 others (e. g. Baillon) regard them as bracteoles. I adopt the latter 

 view, chiefly because these bodies are not isomerous with the inner 

 whorls of the perianth (corolla of some) or with the stamens. A further 

 argument for considering them as bracteoles is found in the allied 

 genus Miquelia, in the males of which similar organs are found, and 

 where they are separated from the flower by a long pedicel. 



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