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8 in. lonsf, and from '75 to l"25 in. broad; the ultimate branches 

 coasisting of minute clustered, 6- to 10-flowered, pedicellate umbel- 

 lules; hrads from the bases of the pedicels of the umbellules, "4 

 or '5 in. long, subulate, curved, hispid. Floioers sessile, *05 in. in 

 diara. Bracteoles of the involucel 3, deltoid, their apices broad and bifid, 

 glabrous on the inner, densely villose on the outer surface. Pieces 

 of the perianth 4, fi-ee, ovate-lanceolate, acute, smaller than the sepals, 

 valvate. Stamens shorter than the perianth, the anthers broad. Budi^ 

 mentary ovary minute, villous. Female flowers {fide Grifl&th) in oblong 

 or spherical pedunculate capitula of which there are several in a leaf- 

 axil. Style short, tri-partite ; the segments revolute, stigmatiferous on 

 the inner surface. Ovary strigose, 1-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules. 

 Drupes ovoid, tapering to each end, densely covered with adpressed 

 yellowish bristles, 1*5 in. long, and 'Ih in. in diam., 1-celled, crowded 

 in dense pendulous globose capitula as large as a man's head. Seed 

 solitary, albumen fleshy, radicle broad ; cotyledons small, orbicular. Baill. 

 in DC. Prod. XVII, 12 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 592; Kurz For. Flora 

 Burmah I, 2i2 ; Beccari Malesia, I, 127 : Wall. Cat. No. 4947. P. macro- 

 carpa, GrifF. Notul. IV, 322 : Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 487 and 488. Gynocephalum 

 hraneatum, Tree, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, VIII, 149, No. 3. 



Penang ; Porter, Curtis. Malacca ; Grriffith. Perak ; King's Col- 

 lectors. Singapore ; Maingay, Ridley. — Distrib. Borneo. 



3. Phytocrene palmata, Wall. PI. As. Ear. Ill, 12. Stem minutely 

 prickly ; the younger branches rufous-hispid, striate. Leaves coriaceous, 

 reniform, deeply 5-lobed ; the lobes oblong, acuminate or acute ; upper 

 surface glabrous, the lower densely covered with soft course rufous or 

 yellowish hairs ; main nerves 5 to 7, palmate, prominent on the upper, 

 depressed on the lower surface ; length 7 to 12 in., breadth about the 

 same ; petioles 3 to 5 in., densely ferruginous-pilose. Panicles of male 

 floioers axillary, 2'5 to 13 in. long, and about 1'5 in. broad, the ultimate 

 branches consisting of minute 12- to 15-flowered, pedicelled, ebracteate 

 umbellules ; pedicels '15 in. long, softly pubescent. Male flowers as in 

 P. ohlonga. Female flowers in shortly pedunculate axillary ovoid capitula, 

 •5 in. in diam. ; the peduncle '25 in. long, pilose. Flowers '2 in. long, ses- 

 sile. Bracteoles of the involucel of two deltoid bifid pieces : corolla 0. Ovary 

 ovoid, pointed, densely hirsute. Drupes numerous, ellipsoid, slightly obo- 

 void, tapering much to the base, the apex acute, the whole surface more 

 or less densely covered with yellowish shining stiff hairs ; 15 to 2 in. 

 long, and '75 in. in diam., collected in sub-globular heads 3 or 4 in. 

 in diam., Baill. in DC. Prod. XVII, 11 ; Miq, Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 

 Ill, 248 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 592 ; Beccari Malesia, I, 127. Gyno- 

 cephalitm palmatnm, Tree, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, VIII, 149 : Wall. 

 Cat,, 491.9. 



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