138 AncistrocladecS. {Andstrodadus. 



than the I. ; scp. linear-lanccolatc, acute, glabrous ; pet. rather 

 longer, acute ; anth.-valves very unequal, pubescent ; ov. 

 pyramidal ; fr. \ in. diam., globular, apiculate, rough, sep. ^- in. 



Moist country; rare. Not uncommon in Ambagamuwa and Sabara- 

 ganiuwa districts at about 3000ft. Fl. Dec-April; yellow. 

 Endemic. 

 Beddome shows the ovary as 3-celled. 



2. n. eleg-ans, Thw. iti Kcui Journ. Bot. vi. 69 (1854). 

 Thw. Enum. 39. Valeria e!ega?is, Thw. Enum. 404. C. P. 371. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 317. Kew Journ. Bot. 1. c. t. 2, f. B. 



A moderate-sized, much-branched tree, young parts gla- 

 brous ; 1. 2^-3 in., lanceolate, obtuse at base, narrowly acu- 

 minate-caudate, obtuse, glabrous and shining, margin at base 

 somewhat revolute, lat. veins numerous, indistinct on both 

 surfaces, petiole 4-I in. ; fl. on glabrous, filiform ped., 1-4, in 

 small axillary racemes ; sep. narrowly linear, very acute ; pet. 

 obtuse ; ov. globular ; fr. small, ^ in., globose, apiculate, rough, 

 sep. tV in. 



Moist low country ; \ery rare. Sabaragamuwa, at the foot of Adam's 

 Peak, at about 2000 ft. Fl. April. 

 Endemic. 



XXI Z'/^.— ANCISTROCLADE^. 



SlIRUB.S, climbing by woody hooks ; I. alternate, entire, with- 

 out stip. ; fl. regular, bisexual ; sep. combined into a 5-fid 

 cal., the tube adherent to ov., the segments unequal, persistent 

 and much enlarged in fruit; pet. 5, slightly connate at base; 

 stam. 5, distinct, adnate at base to pet. ; ov. inferior, i-celled, 

 with I erect ovule ; seed with a small embrj-o in copious 

 ruminate endosperm. 



I have followed A. De CandoUe, Planchon, Burck, and others in 

 regarding this anomalous genus as forming a separate Natural Order. Its 

 affinities are very doubtful, but it cannot be placed in Dipterocarpaceae, 

 as is done in Gen. Plant, and V\. B. Ind. 



AKCZSTROCZ<ADUS, H^all. [Bigamea* Koen. in Endl.). 

 ]''or characters, sec Order. — Sp. 10 ; 7 in Fl. B. Ind. 



* From ' Bigam,' the name of the place in Ceylon where Koenig 

 collected it in Feb. 1781. It is difficult to say what locality can have 



