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emlDryo pyriform, in fleshy albumen.— Distrib. Two species, both 

 Malayan. 



A genus closely allied to Urophyllum. 



Flowers in long-peduncled cymes with leafy bracts at 



the bases of branches ; calyx a shallow cup; leaves acute 1. A, jpreintioides. 



Flowers in shortly peduncled panicles without leafy 



bracts j calyx a deep cup ; leaves acuminate ... 2. A. Maingayi. 



1. AuLiCODiscDS PBEMNOiDES, Hook. fil. in Gen. Plantar. II. 71. 

 Young branches dark -coloured, 4-aiigled, glabrous. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong, shortly acuminate, the base slightly narrowed, both 

 surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, glabrous ; the upper sliining, the 

 lower palei', dull and transversely reticulate; main-nerves 14 to 16 

 pairs, spreading to slightly curved; length 5"5 to 7 in. ; breadth r25 to 

 1*65 in. ; petiole "2 to 'SS in. Cymes about 1*25 in. long and 1"5 in. in 

 diam., pedunculate, axillary, trichotomously umbellate, rusty-puberu- 

 lous ; the common peduncle 1 in. long, the secondary half as long, each 

 bearing at its base a leafy ovate-rotund petiolate bract '3 to "4 in. long. 

 Flowers about '1 in. long, their pedicels longer. CalyK shallow, cupular, 

 indistinctly toothed. Corolla much depressed in bud, the mouth with 

 8 inflexed lobes, hairy outside. Perfect stamens 8, included, broadly 

 ovate, on short filaments. Disc large, convex, hairy, deeply 8-grooved. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 97 in part. Axanthes enneandra^ Wight iu 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VIII. 144. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 2938. 



2. Adlacodiscds Maingati, King & Gamble n. sp. A tree ; young 

 branches as thick as a goose- or swan-quill, dark-coloured, obtusely 

 4-angled. Leaves thinly coriaceous, pale-brown when dry, oblong or 

 oblong-elliptic, acute, slightly narrowed at the base ; both surfaces 

 shining, olivaceous-brown, the lower slightly paler; main-nerves 12 to 

 14 pairs, curved, spreading, thin but prominent beneath ; length 6 to 8 

 in. ; breadth 2 to 2"5 in. ; petiole •25 to '5 in. Panicles pedunculate, 

 cymose, with no leafy bracts at the bases of the branches, many-flowered, 

 1 to 1*5 in. in diam., slightly puberulous and with a few small bracteoles, 

 the peduncles less than '5 in. long. Floivers '1 in. long, their pedicels 

 longer. Calyx deeply cupular ; sub-glabrous ; its mouth truncate, entire. 

 Corolla twice as long as the calyx, witii 8 deep lanceolate reflexed lobes. 

 Style long, reflexed over the disc. ; stigma large. Frtdt '25 in. in diam. 

 Aulacodiscus premnoides, Hook. fil. in Fl. Br. Ind. III. 97 in part. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 938. Selangor: Curtis 2343. Perak : 

 Scortechini 2004i ', King's Collector 1086. — Distrib. Sumatra. 



This is one of the two plants referred to A. premnoides by Sir Joseph Hooker in 

 F.B.I. 1.0. It appears to us to differ sufficiently from the other one {Qrijith K.D. 



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