io8 VII. MENiSPERMACE^. [Arcangelisia. 



flowers, sepals and petals 6, coriaceous narrow oblong. Staminodes 

 minute scale-like. Carpels 4 ; stigma sessile papillose. Fruiting 

 panicle thickened ; peduncles thick woody- Drupes globose bright 

 yellow, slightly flattened i"25 in. long; endocarp fibrillose. Seed 

 albumen ruminate. Hah. Forests, not comnion. Malacca (Main- 

 gay) . Perak, Batu Togoh (Wray) ; Larut Hills at low altitude 

 (Kunstler). Distrih. Cochin-China. 



8. PYCNARRHENA, Miers. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves lanceolate to oblong. Cymes axillary 

 or reduced to i-flowered pedicels, in fascicles. Flowers minute. 

 Sepals 6 to 9, outer ones ciliate, inner ones larger, innermost sub- 

 orbicular very concave glabrous. Petals 2 to 6 obovate, smaller 

 than the outer sepals. Stamens 2 to 10 ; filaments very short or 

 hardly any, thickened above; anthers half-immersed globose. 

 Female flower resembling male, but with 2 to 4 ovoid carpels. 

 Stigmas tongue-shaped. Drupes 3 or fewer. Seeds exalbuminous. 

 Species 17, India, China, Malay Islands to Australia. 



(i) P. fasciculata Diels, Pflanzenreich, iv. 94, fig. 17. Anti- 

 taxis fasciculata Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2, vii. 41; Con- 

 irib. Bot. iii. 356, pi. 142 ; Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 106. A. lucida King, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 388. 



A tall slender climber woody, 40 to 60 ft. long. Stem -5 in. 

 through. Leaves coriaceous oblong or lanceolate acuminate acute, 

 base blunt narrowed ; nerves 6 pairs inarching far from edge ; 3 to 4 

 in. long, 1-25 to 1*5 in. wide ; petioles '5 in. long. Flowers fascicled, 

 as many as 18 together in male, very small on slender filiform 

 pedicels, "4 in. long, on pubescent axillary tubercles. Male flowers, 

 •03 in. long. Sepals, outer ciliate, inner 3 larger concave orbicular. 

 Petals smaller widely obovate. Stamens 2 to 4. Female, pedicels 

 fewer, 2 to 4, robust in fruit, "6 in. long. Drupe pear-shaped 4 to 

 5 in. long, pulpy glabrous, reddish green. Hab. In forests. Malacca 

 (Griffith). Perak, Gunong Bubong (Kunstler) at 400 to 600 ft. 

 altitude in bamboo forests. Distrib. Cambodia, Siam. 



9. LIMACIA, Lour. 



Woody climbers, medium size. Leaves ovate or oblong, not 

 peltate. Inflorescence of compound cymes, false panicled or 

 racemose. Male flowers, sepals 9 pubescent, outer bract-like, 

 inner concave larger. Petals 6, smaller. Stamens 6 or 3 ; fila- 

 ments free obconic. Female flowers, staminodes 6 or 3. Carpels 3 

 pilose. Stigma sub-trilobed recurved. Drupes 3 to i, gibbous sub- 

 globose fleshy ; endocarp smooth except the transversely wrinkled 

 dorsal band. Species 5, Cochin-China and Malay Islands. 



Stems and under side of leaves and cymes yellow tomentose (i) L. velutina 

 Stems and leaves nearly glabrous . . . . . (2) L. oblonga 



