Anacolosa.} xxxix. OLACINE.E. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 581 



5. A. puberula, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc Beng. 1872, ii. 297; leaves 

 oblong or ovate-oblong acuminate, base acute, calyx puberulous. 



ANDAMAN ISLDS., Kurz. 



A large shrub. Leaves 5-6 in., shortly petiolecl, glabrous, coriaceous. Peduncles 

 short, erect, puberulous, springing from a short, thick, axillary spur. Calyx covered 

 with yellowish down (Kurz). I have not seen this species. 



6. A. ? heptandra, Main gay in herb. ; leaves lanceolate, base acute, 

 calyx puberulous, filaments hairy. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A shrub or tree. Leaves 6 by 2 in., coriaceous, glabrous; petiole in. Peduncles 

 4-6, axillary, tufted, about the length of the petiole, puberulous. Flower-buds 

 oblong-truncate. Flower ^ in. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5 (7, Maingay), 

 valvate, coherent, ultimately free, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, concave, triangular at the 

 apex, hairy on the middle of the inner surface, edges membranous. Stamens 5 

 (7, Maingay), hvpogynous, opposite the petals, filaments broadly strap-shaped, bilobed at 

 the apex, and provided with a tuft of bristly hairs ; anthers minute, didyrnous, concealed 

 by the hairs of the filament ; pollen-grains triangular. Ovary depressed-globose, lobed, 

 surrounded by an annular disk, imperfectly 2-3-celled; style conic-fusiform as long 

 as the ovary, stigma minutely 2-3-too:hel; ovules 2-3, pendulous. A remarkable 

 species. The flowers I examined were pentamerous. Maingay says in a note that it 

 agrees with Anacolosa in all respects but the heptamerous flowers. 



8. SCHCEPFIA, Schreb. 



Trees. Branches terete or angular. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate. 

 Racemes axillary, many-flowered. Flowers fragrant, yellow. Epicalyx cup- 

 sbaped, deeply 3-lobed. Calyx adherent to the ovary, limb obsolete. 

 Corolla perigynous, tubular, limb 4-5-parted. Stamens 4-5, epipetalous, 

 filaments slender ; anthers free, glabrous, 2-celled, attached below the middle 

 to the apex of the filament; pollen triangular. Ovary half-superior, sur- 

 mounted by a fleshy epigynons disk, 3-celled beneath, 1-celled at the top ; 

 style cylindric, stigma capitate, 3-lobed ; ovules 3, cylindric, pendulous 

 from the apex of a central placenta. Fruit drupaceous, surrounded at the 

 base by the persistent epicalyx, marked above by the remains of the calyx 

 and corolla ; stone thin, striated, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Embryo minute, in the 

 apex of neshy albumen, radicle superior, cotyledons plano-convex. 

 DISTRIB. Species 3-4, natives of the Himalaya and of tropical South 

 America. 



1. S. fragrans, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 18, t. 9 ; leaves narrow lanceolate 

 acuminate. Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 188; Griff. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 629. S. odorata, 

 Wall. Cat. 485. 



NIPAL, Wallich. KHASIA MTS., Griffith. 



A small tree. Bark corky, whitish. Branches terete, smooth. Leaves scattered, 

 2-3 by |-f in., acute at both ends; petiole | in., channelled above. Racemes half the 

 length of the leaves ; rachis slender, pedicels -6-8, each i-1 in. Floivers ,j in. Lobes of 

 the epicalyx imbricate, ciliate. Corolla double the length of the calyx-tube, tubular 

 or funnel-shaped, limb 5-lobed ; lobes lanceolate, acute, valvate, with a tuft of hairs on 

 the centre of the inner surface. Filaments attached to the petals for nearly their \\ ole 

 length ; anthers on a level with the hairs on the petals, connective prolonged above. 

 Ovary nearly twice the length of the calyx. The plant varies considerably in the size 

 of the leaves and flowers. I have followed Wallich's description of the epicalyx, the 

 three bracts of which differ from the calyx of Anacolosa and Cathedra ^\vith which they 

 are compared by Bentham) in their unequal size and their imbrication. 



