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Calyx-lobes 5, linear-oblong, acute, reflexed, -05 to -07 in. long, not 

 gland-dotted. Corolla-lobes ovate-oblong, -15 in. long, dotted with 

 elongated brown glands. Stamens shorter than the corolla-lobes ; 

 filaments short ; anthers oblong, obtuse, emarginate, -1 in. long. Ovary 

 rounded, glabrous; style slender, curved, '1 in. long. Fruit not seen. 

 Peeak : in dense bamboo forest. King's Collector 10095. 



This is scarcely more than a var. of A. odontophylla , but is recognised by the 

 somewhat different leaves, white flowers, glabrous ovary and style, and the absence of 

 fulvous tomentum. 



6. Antistrophe, a. DC. 



Slender shrubs, with puberulous branchlets. Leaves alternate, 

 entire or dentate, lanceolate, acuminate, glandular, petiole margined. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, in sub-sessile axillary umbels or solitary, 

 pedicels slender, bracts small. Calyx small, 5-lobed, persistent ; lobes 

 acute, imbricate. Corolla deeply 5-cleft ; lobes lanceolate acuminate, 

 overlapping to the left in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the 

 corolla; filaments short; anthers free, hastate-lanceolate, the connective 

 produced upwards in a membranous tip, cells dehiscing longitudinally 

 and introrsely. Ovary ovoid, attenuated in a filiform style, stigma 

 punctiform ; ovules many on a globose central placenta. Fruit a 

 globose berry, pericarp coriaceous, endocarp chartaceous. Seed 1, 

 albumen ruminated ; embryo cylindric, transverse. — Distrib. Species 

 4, Indian and Malayan. 



Inflorescence 1-2-flowered, glabrous ; leaves caudate acuminate .. 1. A. caudata. 

 Inflorescence 4-6-flowered, hirsute ; leaves short acuminate .. .. 2. A. Curtisii. 



1. Antistrophe caudata. King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub or 

 small tree ; branches smooth, divaricate, nearly glabrous ; branchlets 

 puberulous, with faint raised lines from the bases of the leaf -petioles ; 

 innovations rusty-pubescent. Leaves membranous ; elliptic-lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate at apex, attenuate or somewhat rounded at base ; 

 entire or undulate on the margins ; glabrous on the upper, minutely 

 puberulous or glabrous and with pale peltate scales on the lower, surface ; 

 glandular dots very many, scattered, prominent ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1 to 

 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, conspicuous below ; main-nerves 8 to 12 

 pairs, prominent beneath, at an angle of about 60° with the midrib, 

 arching upwards, forking and obscurely anastomosing near the margin, 

 the lowest pair of nerves more oblique than the rest ; secondary nerves 

 short, slender, reticulations indistinct ; petiole -1 to -2 in. long, edged 

 by the decurrent margins of the blade which are almost connivent 

 above. Liflorescence of short, axillary, usually only 1-2-flowered sub- 

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