400 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



plobose, few-seeded ; glabrous or pubescent. Stigma very oblique or 

 quite lateral, often minute and perforated. Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 184 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 113 ; Royle 111. 74, t. 18, f . 1 ; W. & A. Prodr. 

 32. V. Wightiana, var. pabesoens, Tliwaites Enum. 20. V. pilosa, 

 Blume Bijd. 57 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 113. 



Perak; on UIq Batang Padang; L. Wiay, Junior. Distrib. moun- 

 tain ranges of India, and of the Malayan Islands. 



2. Alsodeia, Thouars. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), distichous; 

 secondary nerves often numerous and parallel. Stipules rigid. Flowers 

 Btnall, axillary or terminal, solitary, fascicled, cymoae or racemose, 

 regular ; peduncles with many bracts. Sepals 5, subequal, rio^id. Petals 

 6, subequal, sessile. Stainens 5, inserted inside or upon an annular disc; 

 with long or short often broad dorsal membranous connectival appen- 

 dages, the cells of the anthers sometimes with apical linear processes. 

 Ovary ovoid ; style straight, stigma terminal ; ovules few or many. Cap- 

 sule 3-valved, few-seeded. Seeds glabrous in the E. Ind. species. — 

 Distrib. Species about 50, chiefly tropical American. 



Sect. I. Prosthesia^ Bl. (genus). Anthers with a subulate appen- 

 dage from the apex of each cell, and a broad (usually dorsal) appendage 

 from the connective. 



1. A. Wallichiana, Hook. fil. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 187. A 

 glabrous shrub. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, shortly 

 acuminate, entire or slightly serrulate, the base rounded or slightly nar- 

 rowed ; nerves 10 to 15 pairs, archiug, prominent, their axils beardless; 

 length of blade 9 to 12 in., breadth 2"5 to 5 in., petiole '6 to 1*5 in. ; yel- 

 lowish when dry especially on the under surface ; stipules linear-lanceo- 

 late, glabrous, '75 in long. Racemes shorter than the petioles, with 

 many deciduous linear bracteoles. Flowers 4 to 8, pedicellate. Perfect 

 male flowers ; sepals acute, erect, lanceolate, equal to or longer than the 

 petals. Petals oblong. Filaments short, attached to a 5-Iobed fleshy 

 disc. Anthers ovate with a small apical process on each lobe in front, 

 and a single large orbicular hooded membranous appendage rising from 

 the dorsum. Pistils rudimentary, or none. Perfect female floivers ; sepals 

 spreading, ovate-acute, shorter than the petals. Petals erect, oblong, 

 obtuse, their apices recurved. Filaments longer than in the perfect 

 ma.e, the anthers without pollen. Ovary sessile, ovoid-conic, smooth ; 

 style cylindric. Fruit sub-globular, obtusely 3-angled, granular, "35 in. 

 long, dehiscing by 3 blunt valves. Seeds mottled. 



Penang ; Wallich. Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechini. 



The flowers in this species are practically unisexual and apparently 



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