38 VI. ANONACEiE. [Drcpananthus. 



(2) D. ramuliflorus Maing. in F.B.I. I.e. 56 ; King, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 39; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. I.e. 49, pi. 66. 



A tree resembling D. prunifcnts, but bigger. Flowers -4 to -5 in. 

 long, white crowded in very short fascicles on tubercles on the 

 branches below the leaves ; pedicels -3 in. long. Sepals triangular 

 acuminate tomentose. Petals, both rows similar, claw concave 

 connivent tomentose, limbs fleshy, narrow sub-cylindric curved, 

 connivent or spreading, pubescent. Pistils 5, oblong. Carpels 

 globose tomentose or oblong, -75 in. through. Seeds about 7, 

 ovoid, plano-convex, flattened, chestnut colour, -50 in. long, -3 in, 

 wide. Hah. Singapore, Garden Jungle. Malacca, not rare here, 

 about Ayer Panas and Sungei Hudang. Native name : Antoi 

 putih. 



(3) D. ciarinatus Ridl. 



Tree, softly hairy. Leaves sub-coriaceous ovate or oblong acute, 

 base round, above smooth, beneath glaucescent and glabrous, shortly 

 thickly hairy ; nerves 10 pairs, 6 in. long, 2-75 in. wide ; petioles 

 •3 in. long. Flowers solitary on branches; peduncle short thick 

 hairy -25 in. long with a large round convolute bract. Sepals 

 broad, almost reniform, -12 in. long, -25 in. wide, hairy. Petals 

 oblong-linear blunt, keeled on back, pubescent constricted above 

 the silky claw; 75 in. long, -12 in. wide. Stamens short oblong, 

 appendages small. Ovaries 5, hairy; stigmas longer than stamens. 

 Fruit ver}/ young, small, silky. Hab. Selangor, Sungei Buluh (Fox- 

 worthy). Native name : Malak. 



10. ARTABOTRYS, R.Br. 



Sarmentose or climbing shrubs, seldom very stout. Leaves 

 coriaceous usually small, dark green shining. Flowers solitary or 

 more often fascicled on flattened, woody, recurved peduncles by 

 which the plant climbs. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 6 in 2 series, 

 white or yellowish rarely green or pink, bases concave, connivent ; 

 limb lanceolate or sub-terete, generally narrow. Stamens oblong 

 or cuneate, appendages short or long; anther-cells dorsal. Pistils 

 few or many; style oblong or columnar. Ovules 2, erect. Carpels 

 baccate. Species 40, tropical Africa and East Asia. Easily 

 recognized by the peculiar flattened hooked branches by which 

 the plants climb. 



i. Platypetala. Petals broad, flat, lanceolate. 

 Flower under i in. long. 



Petals very fleshy, elliptic, bhint; leaves thin, 



8 to 14 in. long (i) A. grandifolius 



Petals coriaceous lanceolate-acuminate; leaves 



thick, 2 in. long . . . . (^) A. Scortechinii 



Petals elliptic, blunt; leaves thin, lanceolate, 



caudate (3) A. pleurocarpus 



Flowers i in. long. 



Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, 3 to 6 in. long . (4) A. venustus 



