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filaments shorter than the anthers ; connective of outer stamens narrow, 

 of the inner broad. Female flowers unknown, 



Perak, Scortechini. 



This species was collected only once by the late Father Scortechini. 

 All the flowers which I have seen are male ; and, as no unisexual species 

 of this genus has hitherto been described, I have modified the generic 

 definition accordingly. This differs from T. Cambodiannm in having 

 veiy cojiaceous leaves with shoiter petioles, smaller flowers, and much 

 more numerous stamens. 



6. Kadsdra, Kaempfer. 



Climbing glabrous shrubs. Leaves exstipulate. Flowers unisexual, 

 white, yellow or reddisji, axillary, or in the axils of scales near the base 

 of shoit lateral leafy branches. Sepals and petals 9 to 12, imbricate in 

 about 3 series. c? Stamens 5 to 15 or more, in a spiral series; filaments 

 very short, free or subconnate, often fleshy; anthers free or subim- 

 mersed in a fleshy head of confluent filaments, cells small, remote. $ 

 Ooaries many, densely imbricated ; stigma ses.-^iie ; ovules 2 to 4. Fruit a 

 globose head of indehiscent, fleshy, l-seeded carpels. Seeds 1 or 2, sus- 

 pended, albumen fleshy, tesra crustaceous ; embryo minute. — Distiib. 

 Temp, and subtrop. Asia ; species about 7. 



1. K. SCANDENS, Bl, B'l Jav., Schizandrece, p. 9, t. 1. A woodv 

 glabrous climber 30 to 40 feet long ; the bark dark-coloured, irregularly 

 striate. Leaves coriacecm.o, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, shortly acu- 

 minate, entire, the base rounded very slightly decurrent towards the 

 petiole ; main nerves about 5 pairs, sub-erect ; length of blade 4 to 6 in., 

 breadth 2 to 4 in, ; petiole about 1 in., expanded at the base. Flou.ers 

 axillary, with a few from the trunk below the leaves, solitary, on bracteo- 

 late peduncles, those of both sexes similar. Calyx of 3 triangular st^pals 

 much shorter than the petals and united at the base. Petals ovate- 

 oblong, blunt, fleshy, erecto-patent, sub-concave. Male flowers with 

 numerous short, cuneate, equal stamens densely packed on an ovoid, 

 fleshy receptacle; the connective fleshy, the anthers sub-truncate, 2- 

 celled. Female flowers without stamens, the ovaries numerous, com- 

 pressed; the stigmas sessile, elongate, fleshy. Ripe fruit sub-globose, 

 2 to 2'5 in. in diam.; the individual carpels sessile, globose or subcom- 

 prossed, fleshy, mucronate or beaked, less than '5 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. ii, 19; K. cauliflora^ BI. 1. c. p. 11, t. 2; Sarcocarpon 

 scaiule'ns, Bl. Bijdr. 21. 



Perak, Penang; at low elevations. Distrib. Java, Sumatra, and 

 [trobably in the other islamls of the Arcliipelago. 



2. K CAUi.iFi.'iKA, Bl. Fl .lav., Schizaud. 11, t. 2. A stout woody 



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