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the edges entire ; both surfaces shining, the lower much reticulate ; 

 main nerves 9-12 pairs, spreading, curving upwards ; length 3"5-6*5 in., 

 breadlh l"25-2'5 in., petiole •25-'35 in. Fascicles 6-10-flowered, axillary, 

 shorter than the petioles. Flowers less than "1 in. long, the pedicels 

 about as long as the fruit-producing flowers, sub-dioecious ; the stamen- 

 bearing flowers with perfect petals, but the ovary and stigma abortive ; 

 the flowers with fertile ovaries and with perfect stigmas having imper- 

 fect stamens and often abortive petals. Fniit a globular glabrous berry 

 •1-'15 in. in diam. Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 127, t. XXXI ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I. Pt. I, 592 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, T, 451 ; Hook. 

 fib Fl. Br. Ind. II, 440. G. Dryptopetnlum, Blume Mus. 1. c. 127 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. c. 592. Dryptopetalnm coriaceum, Arn. in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. I, 372. G. reticulata, A. Gray. Bot. Amor, Expl. Expedit. Voh I^ 

 607 ? Microtropis coriacea, Wall. Cat. 4338. Oasearia ? acuminata, 

 Wall. Cat. 7198. Ruhiacea, Wall. Cat. &455. 



In all the provinces j common. Distrib. The Malayan Archipelago. 



8. Anisophyllea, Br. 



Trees and shrubs. Leaves exstipulate, disticlious, obliquely ovate- 

 lanceolate or elliptic, with 3-5 main nerves proceeding from the base 

 (the nervation pinnate in one species), quite entire; the^alternate leaves 

 sometimes smaller or minute and stipuliform. Flowers monoecious, 

 minute, in axillary simple or fascicled spikes, ebracteate or minutely 

 bracteolate. Calyx-tiibe of 9 flower ovoid, adnate to the ovary, terete 

 or ribbed ; limb 4-fid, lobes erect. Petals 4, small, involute, entire, lobed 

 or lacerate. Stamens 8 ; filaments short, subulate ; anthers small, didy- 

 mous, usually abortive in the females. Ovary inferior, 4-celled ; styles 

 4, subulate, erect or recurved, stigmas acute or subcapitate ; ovules 

 solitary in each cell, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit coriaceous, oblong 

 or pyriform, ribbed or smooth, 1-seeded. Seed pendulous, exalbumin- 

 ous, testa coriaceous, embryo clavate, cotyledons very small or 0, radicle 

 large. Di&trib. Species 10, natives of Tropical Asia and Africa. 



Leaves dimorphous ... 

 Leaves uniform : — 

 Flowers apetaloiaa... 

 Flowers with 4 petals : — 

 Petals minute, deltoid 



Petals thick, subquadrate, eutire or subemarginate 

 Petals 3-fid at the apex 

 Petals divided to the very base into narrow seg- 

 ments ... ... .. ... 6. A. Curtisii. 



1. Anisophtllea disticha, Baill. in Adansonia, XI, 311. A shrub 

 ivith ferruginous-pilose slender branches. Leaves dimorphous, in two 

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