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their junction with the petioles ; length of blade of 4 to 5 in., breadth 3*5 to 

 4 in. ; petiole 3 to 3*5 in. slender, swollen and bent at the base. Ua- 

 centes extra-axillaiy, slender, branched, 3 to 6 in. long. Male floivers 

 sessile, 1 in. in diam., anthers 9. Female flower unknown ; ripe inflores- 

 cence stout, woody, a foot or more long ; pedicel of ripe fruit much 

 thickened, clavate, rugose ; ripe drupe transversely ovoid, sub-com- 

 pressed, 1*25 long by nearly 1"5 broad ; pericarp thick, fibrous, pulpy ; 

 endocarp woody, rugose. 



Malacca, Maingay No. 116, 115 (in part). Perak, common. Dis- 

 trib. Cochin-China. 



An enormous climber, often with a stem 4 in. in diameter. The 

 leaves and male flowers are excellently figured by M. Pierre, who how- 

 ever does not appear to have seen the ripe fruit. 



FiBRAUKEA, Loureiro. 



Glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves ovate to oblong, 3-nerved. 

 Flowers in panicles. Sepals 6, Vf'iih 3 minute bracts, inner larger. 

 Petals 0. Male flower ; stamens 6, filaments clavate ; anthers terminnl, 

 adnate; cells spreading, bursting vertically. Female flower; stami- 

 nodesS. OvaWes 3, ovoid, 2-ovuled ; stigma sessile, punctiform. Drupes 

 1-seeded, oblong, terete, style-scar subterminal ; endocarp oblong, 

 dorsally convex, ventrally flattened and channelled, hardly intruded. 

 Seed oblong, terete, reniform on transverse section ; albumen copious, 

 horny ; cotyledons foliaceous, longitudinally curved, oblong, very thin ; 

 radicle short, cylindric. 



1. F. CHLOROLEUCA, Miers Contrib. iii, 42. Glabrous, the branches 

 striate; bark of the young branches brown, of the old pale. Leaves 

 coriaceous, ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate ; the base rounded, 5-nerved 

 (2 of the nerves joining the central one half an inch above the base) ; vena- 

 tion inconspicuous ; length of blade 5 to 9 in., breadth 25 to 4 in. ; petiole 

 2 to 4 in., rather slender but swollen and curved towards the base. Pani- 

 cles extra-axillavy, or from the stem below the leaves, slender, lax, their 

 branches horizontal, 3 to 8 in. long. Male flowers '2 in. in diam., short- 

 ly pedicellate; filaments clavate, flattened. Female flower unknown; 

 the ripe female infloiescence slender, stouter than the leaf-petioles, 

 about 1 foot long. Bipe drupes on rather slender terete pedicels which 

 are capitate at the apex and '5 in. long, ovoid, smooth, pulpy, rather 

 more than 1 in. long, "75 in. in diam., endocarp smooth. 



Malacca, Penik ; not uncommon. Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



This appears to me to be a different plant from Loureiro's F. tine- 

 toria, the type of which is in the British Museum. 



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