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series ; the longer oblong-rhomboid, subfalcate, acute, the base cuneate, 

 subsessile, S-neryed, puberulous or pabescenfc or sometimes nearly glab- 

 rotts on both surfaces, '75-1 '5 in. in length and about one- third or one- 

 quarter as much in breadth ; the smaller set stipule-like, lanceolate 

 and only •25-*3 in. long, inserted below the larger and oveilapping 

 their bases. Male flowers in short few-flowered axillary fascicles and 

 meemes much shorter than the leaves, *05 in. in diam., on short pedi- 

 cels ; calyx with 4 broad lobes ; petals shorter than the calyx, trifid ; 

 stamens 8, as long as the petals. Female floivers solitary, larger than 

 the males, subsessile ; calyx-tube elongated, tubular, pubescent exter- 

 nally, connate with the ovary, crowned at the apex with 4 triano-ular 

 lobes ; jpetals and stamens as in the male ; styles stout, sliortei- than the 

 petals, truncate ; stigmas 2-lobed ; fruit narrowly elliptic, tapering to 

 each end, with 8 vertical grooves, glabrous ; seed oblong. Hook. fil. 

 in Herb. Kew; Hensl. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 442. Anisophyllea 

 irapezoidalisj Baill. in Adansonia, XI, 311. Anisophyllum trapezoidale^ 

 Baill. in Adansonia, III, 24, 26. Haloragis disticha, Jack Mah Misc. 

 yil, 19; Wall. Cat. 2519; Hook. Journ. Bot. I, 371 ; Caic, Joui-n. Nat. 

 Hist. IV, 336. 



In- all the provinces except the Andamans and Nicobars ; common, 

 DiSTRiB. The Malayan Archipelago. 



The name Anisophyllea was first given to this genus by Eobert Brown, who 

 however published no description of it. In 1823, Sabine (in a paper published in 

 the Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond.) first used it in giving a popular description of a plant 

 from Sierra Leone under the name A. laurina. Overlooking this publication 

 Don founded for that very plant the genus Anisophyllum, and named it Aniso- 

 phyllum laurinum, and this name was published in 1849 in Hooker's Niger Flora, 342. 

 In the addenda and corrigenda to that volume, Don's name is however reduced .and 

 Brown's is restored. Baillon (in Adansonia 1 II, 24 and 36,) applied the generic name 

 Anisophyllum to three plants of which the present species is one. But, in a sub- 

 sequent volume of Adansonia (XI, 310 and 378) and in his Histoire des Plantes 

 (VI, 304), Baillon abandons Don's name Anisophyllum and adopts Brown's earlier one. 



2. Anisophyllea apetala, Scortechiiii MSS. in Herb. Calciitt. 

 A tree 30-40 feet high ; young branches slender, glabrous. Leaves 

 membranous, oblong to elliptic or ovate-elliptic, or ellipt-ic-lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate, the base rounded or slightly cuneate ; both surfaces 

 glabrous, minutely reticulate ; the upper shining, the lower somewhat 

 dull when dry ; maia nerves 5, springing from the apex of the petiole, 

 the middle three bold, the two lateral rather faint ; length 3-8 in., 

 breadth 1-25-3 in., petiole •25-3 in. Bacemes in lax few-branched 

 extra-axillary panicles as long as the leaves, the rachises glabrous. 

 Flowers monocious, depressed-globular, usually tetramerouti, sometimes 

 (fide Scoitechini) pentamerous. Male flowers on pedicels lon^'cr than 



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