96 VI. ANONACE^F. ^PhceanthiiS. 



thick woods at no great elevation. Singapore, Garden Jungle ; 

 Kranji. Malacca, Bukit Sadancn ; Ayer Panas. Sungei Ujong 

 (Cantley). Pahang, Pahang River. Selangor, Batu caves; Sungei 

 Buluh. Bindings. Perak, Thaiping Hills ; Slim; Ipoh (Kunstler). 

 Penang Hill 2000 ft. altitude (Curtis). Disirib. Sumatra. Native 

 names : Poko Pisang-Pisang Paya or Kechil ; Poko Chingkring. 



(2) P. lucidus Oliv. Hook. fil. Ic. PL t. 1561 ; King, Journ. As. 

 Sac. Beng. I.e. 122; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. I.e. 153, pi. 200B. 



Usually a bush with straight, black stems and tough bark ; 

 branchlets brown-furry. Leaves papery-membranous, dark green 

 above, shiny beneath, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate acuminate, base 

 cuneate, glabrous except midrib pubescent beneath ; nerves 8 pairs, 

 rather prominent beneath ; 4*5 to 6'5 in. long, 1-25 to 2*25 in. wide; 

 petioles "2 in. long. Flowers "6 to i in. across on pedicels i to 

 1*25 in. long, puberulous. Sepals ovate acute almost triangular, 

 edged with red fur. Petals, outer ones more lanceolate, otherwise 

 similar to sepals; inner ones thick, oblong-ovate acute green 

 •5 in. long, pubescent both sides. Stamens, appendages square 

 truncate. Ovaries numerous, green, i-ovuled. Carpels oblong 

 fleshy, '6 in. long, '3 in. through, red, smooth and shining dotted 

 all over with shining hairs; stalks "5 to -6 in. long. Hob. Thick 

 forests. Common ; flowers September. Singapore, Garden Jungle ; 

 Tanglin. Johor; Serom. Pahang at Pulau Tawar. Malacca, 

 Bukit Besar ; Mt. Ophir. Selangor, Batu caves. Perak, Thaiping 

 Hills; Ulu Bubong (Kunstler). Penang Hill at 500 ft. altitude 

 (Curtis). 



26. MILIUSA, Lesch. 



Trees or shrubs. Flowers often unisexual, green or purple, 

 axillary or extra-axillary solitary (fascicled or cymose). Sepals 3, 

 small, valvate. Petals 6, valvate in two series, outer small like 

 the sepals; inner larger, when young cohering by the margins, at 

 length free. Torus elongate, cylindric. Stamens definite or 

 indefinite; anther-cells contiguous, ovoid, extrorse; appendages 

 broad. Ovaries indefinite, linear-oblong; ovules i to 2, rarely 

 3 to 4. Species about 12. 



Leaves narrowed to base. 



Flowers nearly i in. across . . . . (i) M. longipes 



Flowers -25 in. wide . , . . . (2) M. parviflora 



Leaves sub-sessile, unequally bilobed at base . . (3) M. amplexicaulis 



(i) M. longipes King, Journ. As. Soe. Beng. I.e. 124; Ann. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. I.e. 157, pi. 204. 



A small bushy tree or shrub 15 to 30 ft. tall, glabrous. Leaves 

 membranous shining, oblong-oblanceolate acuminate, base cuneate ; 

 nerves 12 pairs, faint, 5'5 to 7 in. long, i"25 to 275 in. wide ; petioles 

 •I to "15 in. long. Flowers axillary solitary on slender pedicels, 



