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Stamina 3, conniventia, antheris oblongis, subsessilibus. Pistillc- 
dium minutum, subaequilongum. lores feminet in raceme 
terminali, singuli in axillis bractearum lanceolatarum foliacearum. 
Pedicelli longiusculi, superne incrassati. Sepala 5, ovata. Petala 
5, longiora, carnosula obtusa. Ovarium glabrum, triloculare, 
ovulis in loculis singulis; styli erecti, simplices, brevissimi. 
Capsula profundis triloba, suborbicularis. Semina in loculis 
singulis, rotundatis, flavis, brunneo marmoratis. 
Species unica. 
Actephilopsis malayana Ridl. nov. sp. 
Frutex glaber, ramis cortice pallido. Folia tenuiter coriacea, 
elliptica, cuspidata, basi gradatim attenuato, marginibus undu- 
latis crenulatis, nervis 10 ad 11-paribus gracilibus, 16 cm. longa, 
9 em. lata; petioli 1 ad 3 cm. longi. Flores masculi minuti, 
pedicellis filiformibus 4 mm. longis, in racemis brevissimis crassis 
in axillis foliorum et ramorum. Bracteae minutae, persistentes, 
ovatae, acutae. Flores feminer in racemis 19 cm. longis. 
Bracteae lineari-lanceolatae, foliaceae, 2 cm. longae, 5 mm. latae. 
Pedicelli superne dilati, 15 mm. longi. Capsula glabra, triloba, 
subrotunda, 15 mm. lata. 
Pahang, Kwala Tembeling, in woods, Ridley 2300. Perak, 
Gunong Kerbau, Haniff 1611. Penang, Ayer hitam, at foot of 
hill, Curtis 674. . ese 
This plant has in many points resemblances to the genus 
Actephila but differs in having the ovules solitary in the ovary- 
cells. The male flowers are borne on short thick racemes 
clustered in the axils of the branches, and in leaf-axils and are very 
minute, while the female flowers are solitary in the axils of leaf- 
like bracts in a terminal raceme. They are very much larger 
than the males and have a dilated pedicel very much as in 
Actephila. I cannot find any genus of the one-ovuled Huphor- 
biaceae which bears any resemblance to it, and it certainly seems 
to have an affinity with Actephila, but Lieut.-Col. Gage and I 
myself cannot find more than one ovule in each ovary-cell or 
traces of a second, but I have only seen one or two female 
flowers. I should suggest that it really belongs to the section 
Phyllantheae but is aberrant in possessing only one ovule in each 
ovary-cell. 
Andrachne australis Dene. ; . 
The plant figured and described by Hooker in Icones 
Plantarum t. 1704 as A. fruticosa Linn. from Perak is not that 
species but A. australis Dene. 
