Kadsura.] 



V. SCHIZANDRACE.E. 



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petals larger and more ovate than in K. scandens, -3 in. long, obtuse. 

 Carpels on pedicels -5 in. long. Hab. Dense forest at low altitudes. 

 Singapore, Garden Jungle, etc., common; Perak (Scortechini). 

 Penang Hill at 2000 ft. altitude (Curtis). Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



The flowers look like very small pink roses. 



(3) K. lanceolata King, I.e. 376. 



Slender woody climber. Leaves thin coriaceous ovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate-acuminate ; nerves 12 pairs, faint; 3 to 4 in. long, 1-5 in. 

 wide ; petioles -35 in. long. Flowers solitary, axillary globose, -25 in. 

 through. Sepals 3, triangular. Petals 9, larger round or ovate, 



Fig. 5. — Kadsura scandens. 



cream colour. Ripe fruit 75 in. through. Carpels numerous ovoid. 

 Hab. Perak, Thaiping Hills, 500 to 1000 ft. altitude (Kunstler, 

 Scortechini) . 



Order VI. ANONACE^. 



Trees rarely very large, shrubs or hanes. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, entire. Flowers soUtary or in fascicles, bisexual, rarely 

 unisexual, seldom large, purple, green, white or yellow. Sepals 3, 

 usually valvate, free or connate. Petals 6 hypogynous, m 2 whorls, 

 often unequal, inner whorl occasionally absent (flowers dimerous 

 in Disepalum). Stamens usually indefinite, crowded on the torus; 

 filaments short or o ; anthers oblong, the connective produced mto 



