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11. Ancistrocladus, Wall. 

 Smooth climbing shrubs with short supra-axillary, ofteu arrested 

 and circiuately-hooked, branches. Leaves usually in terminal tufts 

 coriaceous, entire, reticulately feather-veined ; exstipulate. Flowers 

 usually small, very caducous, in terminal or lateral panicles. Calyx- 

 tube at first short, adnate to the base of the ovary, its lobes imbricate 

 finally turbinate and adnate to the fruit, with the lobes unequally en- 

 larged, spreading and membranous. Stamens 5 or 10, siibperigynous. 

 Ovary 1 -celled, inferior ; style sub-globose, persistent ; Stigmas S, evect, 

 compressed, truncate, deciduous. Ovule solitary, erect or laterally 

 affixed. Seed sub-globose, testa prolonged into the ruminations of the 

 copious fleshy albumen ; embryo short, straight ; cotyledons short, 

 divergent. — Disteib. Except A. gnineensis in W. Tropical Africa, con- 

 fined to Tropical Asia and the Indian Archipelago. Species about 10. 



I follow the authoi'S of the Genera Plautarum and the Flora of British India 

 in including Ancistrocladus in Dipterocarpe.T. I venture, however, to think that it 

 would be better to keep it as the type of a distinct Natural Order as MM. Planchon 

 and Do Candolle have done : for its characters do not fit well into the dia'aiosia of 

 any other Order. 



1. Ancistrocladus extensds, AVall. Cat. 1052. Leaves obovate or 

 obovate-oblong, blunt or sub-acute, much narrowed at the base ; pani- 

 cles dichotomous, about half as long as the leaves : fruit smooth or 

 slightly 5-ridged ; accrescent calyx-lobes oblanceolate, obtuse. Planch, in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XIII, 318. DC. Prodr. XVI, 2, 602; Dyer in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 299. Ancistrolohus sp. Griff. Notul. IV, oQB, 

 t. COo. fig. 2. 



Andaman Islands. Distuib. Burmah. 



Yq,v. 'pinangianus ; leaves sometimes oblanceolate-oblong, acute or 

 sub-acuminate : panicles slender, lax, about as long as the leaves. 

 Ancistrocladus 'pinangianus. Wall. Cat. 1054. Planchon in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 Ser. 3. XIIT, 818 ; A. DC. Prodr. XVI. 2, 603 ; Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. I, 300. 



Penaug : Porter. Malacca: Maingay. (Kew Distrib.) No. 200. 

 Singapore and Perak: King's Collector. DibTHiB. Bangka, Sumatra, 

 Bui'mah. 



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