388 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 



panicles sub-equal, slender, solitary, axillary, sliorter than the leaves. 

 Male flowers crowded, minute; anthers about 4, broad. Drupes pisiform, 

 slightly compressed, pulp thin, endocarp boldly tubercled, 



Perak ; at elevations of from 1500 to 2000 feet; King's collector, 

 Scortechini. A slender creeper ] 5 to 25 feet long; not common. 



15. Antitaxis, Miers. 



Climbers or shrubs with peuni-nerved. leaves. Pedicels 1-flowered, 

 numerous, in axillary fascicles, flowers dioecious. Male flower ; sepals 

 eight, in decussate pairs, the two outer pairs oblong, pubescent ; the two 

 inner pairs rotund, concave, glabrous, imbricate, all increasing in size in- 

 wards. Petals 2, smaller than fourth row of sepals, rotund, concave- 

 Stamens 4 or 8, filaments clavate, anthers sub-globose. Female flower un- 

 known. BrKpes IS (usually 1) sub-globose, or pyrif orm ; endocarp 

 brittle, thin, sub-reniform, l-cel!ed. /See<? sub-globular, concave ventral- 

 ly, albumen none ; cotyledons oblong, semi-terete, thick, incurved; radi- 

 cle minute. — Distrib. Eastern Archipelago. 



1. A. LDCiDA, Miers Contrib. iii. 357. A glabrous climber, bark 

 of young shoots dark and smooth, that of old shoots pale and wai-ted. 

 Leaves coriaceous, shining, oblong or sub-obovate-oblong, acute or acu- 

 minate, the base slightly narrowed ; nerves about 6 pairs, obscure, as are 

 the reticulations ; length of blade 3 to 3"5 in., breadth 1*25 to 1'5 in., 

 petiole '5 in. Female flowers (male unknown) in fascicles. Drtipes 1 to 3, 

 (usually solitary) pyriform, glabrous, shining, about '5 in. long, pericarp 

 pulpy ; endocarp thin, brittle. 



On Ulu Bubong in Perak, King's collector. Distrib. Java. 



A slender creeper from 40 to 60 feet long. Male flowers of this are 

 unknown, and I put it into this genus on account of the structure of the 

 fruit and from its general resemblance to A. fasciadata, Miers, which 

 however differs in being non-scandent and in having tomentose drupes. 

 Kurz's species A. calocarpa has 8 stamens (although he describes it as 

 having only 4), and is also a climber with glabrous drupes. I have 

 modified Miers' description of the genus as to the number of stamens, 

 and in other particulars. 



Order YI. NYMPH^ACEiE. 



Aquatic perennial herbs. Leaves usually floating, often peltate, 

 margins involute in vernation. Scapes 1-flowered, naked. Floral-whorls 

 all free, hypogynous or adnate to a fleshy disc that surrounds or envelops 

 the carpels. Sepals 3 to 5. Petals 3 to 5, or many. Stamens many. Gar- 

 pels 3 or more, in one whorl, free or connate, or irregularly sunk in pits 

 of the disc ; stigmas as many as carpels, peltate or dccurrout ; ovules few, 



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