122 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninmla. 



Leaves entire ... ... ... I. P. oblonga. 



Leaves ovate, sometimes 3-lobed ... 2. P. hracteata. 



Leaves deeply palmately 5-lobed ... 3. F. palmata. 



1. Phytocrene oblonga, "Wall, PI. As. Rar. Ill, 12. Bark brown- 

 ish, rather rough, striate, not prickly, that of the younger branches 

 puberulons. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, more or 

 less acuminate, entire, the base narrowed ; upper surface glabrous, shin- 

 ing, the lower minutely pubescent, minutely lepidote, the reticulations 

 very distinct; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, curved, ascending, prominent 

 on the lower surface ; length 4"5 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 3'5 in., petiole 

 •6 to 1 in. Panicles of male flowers axillary, or clustered on woody 

 •warted tubercles on the stem and larger branches, 1 to 2 in. long, and 

 from '4i to 5 in. broad, the ultimate branches consisting of minute 

 pedicellate umbellules ; the pedicels of the umbellules '15 in. long, rusty- 

 tomentose, each with a subulate bract shorter than itself. Flowers sessile, 

 *05 in. long, in 4- or 5-flowered umbellules '15 in. in diam. Bracts of 

 involucel free, narrowly deltoid, rufous-sericeous. Pieces of the peri- 

 anth 4, free, ovate, concave, glabrous inside, rufous-sericeous externally. 

 Stamens shorter than the perianth, anthers broad. Rudimentary ovary 

 minute, sericeous. Female flowers in shortly pedunculate globular 

 capitula, "6 in. in diam., borne on the stem and branches, the peduncle 

 stout, -25 in. long. Drupes cuneate-ovoid, obtuse, 1'5 in, long, and 1 in, 

 in diam. ; the base pointed trigonous and strigose ; the rest of the surface 

 densely covered with very stout asperulous pale brown bristles, collected 

 in globular heads, the size of a cricket-ball ; epicarp leathery, mesocarp 

 pulpy, endocarp crustaceous. Seed solitary ; cotyledons thin, tortuous, 

 embedded in lobulated fleshy albumen. Baill, in DC. Prod, XVII, 13 ; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 692; Wall. Cat., No. 4948. Gynocephalum 

 oUongum, Tree, in Ann. Sc. Nat, Ser. 3, VlII, 149. 



Penang ; Wallich, Malacca ; Maingay. Perak ; Scortechini, King's 

 Collector. 



The female flowers are often diseased, and the petals are converted 

 into a long fleshy tube which contains no trace of ovary. 



2. Phytocrene bracteata, Wall. PI. As. Rar. Ill, 12. Stems 

 ■with sharp tubercles ; branches striate, minutely prickly when young. 

 Leaves coriaceous, broadly ovate, cordate at the base, often 3-lobed and 

 obscurely dentate, the apex acute, upper surface glabrous, the nerves 

 pubescent ; lower surface pale, softly and minutely pubescent, reticu- 

 lations distinct especially on the lower surface ; main nerves 4 or 

 5 pairs, spreading, curved, prominent beneath ; length 4 to 8 in., 

 breadth 3 to 6*5 in. ; petiole 1-25 to 3 in., minutely tomentose with 

 bristles intermixed. Panicles of male flowers bracteate, axillary, 4 to 

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