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Malacca, Maingay. Distrib. Java and Borneo. 



A species of which I liave seen no good specimen. The foregoing 

 description is chiefly copied from .Miers. 



4. 'J'iNOMisciUM, Miers. 



A scandent shrub, juice milky. Floioers racemed. Sepals 9, with 

 3 bracts. Petals 6, oblong, margins incurved. Male floiver; stamens 6, 

 filaments flattened ; anthers oblong, adnate, bursting vertically. Rudi- 

 mentary carpels 3. Female flower unknown. Drupes much compressed, 

 ovoid-oblong, style-scar terminal ; endocarp much compressed, dorsaliy 

 convex, ventrally flat or slightly concave, not intruded. Seed almost 

 flat, oblong ; cotyledons quite flat, nearly as broad as the thin layer of 

 albumen, very thin, closely appressed; radicle short, cylindric. — Distrib. 

 3, all E. Asiatic. 



T. PETior.ARE, Miers Contrib. iii, 45, t. 94. Young shoots and 

 rachises of inflorescence brown- tomeutose ; bark of older branches nearly 

 glabrous, pale brown, deeply stiiate, very sparsely verrucose. Leaves 

 membranous, glabrous, ovate-oblong, obtuse or shortly and suddenly 

 acuminate, entire, the base rounded or truncate, 5-nerved, the nerves 

 all sparsely pubescent and 2 of them small; length of blade 4 to 8 in., 

 breadth 2 to 4'5 in. ; petiole 2 to 5 in., slender. Racemes fasciculate on 

 stem tubercles, 4 to 8 in. or even 12 in., long. Flowers "35 in. in 

 diam. ; sepals puberulous. Drupe elongate-ovoid, compressed, 1'25 in. 

 long, and '75 in. broad ; endocarp rugose, woody. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, i, 

 pt. i, 87 ; Hook. f. Fl. B. Ind. i. 97. 



Common in the Straits Settlements. Distrib. Sumatra. 



Anamirta, Miers. 



Climbing shrubs. Flowers in panicles. Sepals 6, with 2 adpressed 

 bracts. Petals 0. Male flower ; anthers sessile, on a stout column, 2-celled, 

 bursting transversely. Female flower ; staminodes 9, clavate, 1-seriate. 

 Ovaries 3, on a short gynophore ; stigma sub-capitate, reflexed. Drupes 

 on a 3-fid gynophore, obliquely ovoid, dorsaliy gibbous, style-scar sub- 

 basal ; endocarp vfoody. Seed globose, embracing the sub-globose hol- 

 low intruded endocarp; albumen dense, of horny granules; embryo 

 curved ; cotyledons narrow, oblong, thin, spreading. 



1. A. LooREiRi, Pierre Flore Forest. Cochin Chine, t. 110. Gla- 

 brous ; bark of the younger branches brown, that of the older pale and 

 slightly striate. Leaves sub-coriaceous, shining, ovate-rotund to bi'oadly 

 elliptic, abruptly and shortly acuminate, entire, the base sometimes 

 minutely cordate, 4-nerved, and with 4 small pits between the nerves at 



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