2 
laxo ; petiolus tenuis, scaber, papillis rigidis albis, 15-4 mm. longus. 
Glomeruli 3 6-9-flori, subsessiles v vel pedunculo oad 4mm. longo suffulti ; 
bractea bracteolaeque dbkasad, florem aequantes, illa ovata elliptica, hae 
blongae. Fl i 
longa. Styli cum stigmatibus 3-3°5 (ex Dubard et Eberhardt ad 
10) mm. longi. Fructus diametro 7-9 mm. Streblus sp., Eberhardt in 
Bull. Ec. de l’Indoch. vol. x. pp. 798-802. Bleekrodia scvraei 
Dubard & Eberhardt in Compt. Rend. Ac. Sc. Paris, vol. exiv. p. 631, 
and in Bull. Ke. de l’Indoch. ‘a x. pp. 868-870. 
ToNnKIN: on more or less calcareous soil in most of the provinces 
along the Chinese Frontier, and in the provinces Ninh-Binh and Hoa- 
Binh, south of the Red River; known in Tonkinese as * Teo-nong.’ 
is plant was originally described as a Bleekrodia ; but quite epee! 
(Bull. Ec. de Indochine, vol. xi. p. 175) its authors suggested t 
it might be a distinct genus, mainly on account of the perianth aot 
becoming fleshy in the fruiting —— as stated by Blume for Bleekrodia. 
They suspected, however, an error in Blume’s description owing to his 
having mistaken the pericarp ios the perianth. There are no fruiting 
specimens of Bleekrodia at Kew, but Boerlage (Handleid. Fl. Nederland. 
Ind. vol. iii. part i. p. — og in his oe of the fruit is quite explicit 
on that point. He says: ‘ Frui osed in the thin perianth, dru- 
paceous ; outer layer "licen ‘of the fruitwall very thick below, 
2-lobed, thin on the top ; inner layer (binnenlaag) papery.’ This reads 
very like the description of the fruit of the plant in aac except as 
far as the perianth is concerned. Acco to age this in the 
flower is tubular, contracted above and provided with 4 short teeth, and 
nothing is said of its breaking up into 4 bractlike parts such as we find 
in the fruiting stage of the Teo-nong. It is in fact just this structure of 
the a flower which makes it impossible to refer the Teo- war 
ae STAPF, 
Fig. 1, part of a branch with a leaf and a young male inflorescence in its axil ; 
2, diagra ree of male flower ; 3, male flower bud with bracts ; | 4, young m male flower, 
open ned ; gt 
7, branch with fe fl 8, diagram le infl nee, * marking 
the geste of the gent cases male flowers ; 9, y fee ale inflorescence ; 10, female 
flower, the median sepals spread out; 11, pis istil ; 12, ack weer section through 
; 13, almost mature infruc tescence , the lateral sepals separa seed, 
urvyed radicle at upperend. All enla: rged exc except 1 A ce which are of waters size. 
