592 xxxix. OLACINE^:. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Phytor 



MARTABAN, WaUich. 



Branches spirally grooved, studded with conical prickles. Leaves 4-10 by 4-7 in., 

 palmately 5-?-nerved, glabrescent above, villusulous beneath, rusty-pilose along the 

 prominent nerves ; petiole 2-3 in., hairy. MALE II. in long^8-10 in.}, pendulous, axillary, 

 racemes, or from the old wood; raclus and pedicels hairy ; pedicels supporting a g 

 head of flowers, tfwt* (i or shorter th-.n; the pedicel. Mowers ^'in., setose. .Sy//x 

 oblong obtuse concave at the apex, an ; - ia. <'<>rul\>.i funnel- or 



bell-shaped, twice the length of the cal\x, bri>tly external! v with unciimle bridles, limb 

 4-lobed, lobes ovatc-lai; alternate with the lobes of the corolla: 



filaments and anthers glabrous. Pistil rudimentary, hairy. FEMALE il. not seen. 

 fruit covered with subulate bristles. 



2. P. bracteata, Wall. PL J*. R<i,>. iii. 12 ; branches prickly, leaves 

 cordate-* tv;ite entire or slightly lubcd, bracts (of male spikes) linear longer 

 than the pedicel. Wall. ('<>(. 49 47. R macroearpa, d'ri/. l\ntnl. iv. \\-l- 

 J<: PI. 1 1 I. Or. 487. Gynocephalum bracteatum, Trecul in Ann, tic. 



ser. 3, viii. 149. 



I'IN\:\<:. I'.ni, T ; MA; </. I M-TKIIS. Borneo. 



Stein, tubercled, tubercles ending in a spine. Branched covered with ininute ]>rickles. 



I <;-7by4.', 5 eous, asperufoos above, pabescent beoeath, palmai.-ly o- 7- 



iierved. nerves prominent beneath; petiole 'JA in. MALE 11. small, in axillary hoary 



racemes each about 8 in. ; pedicela .-len.le!-, each snppr : i lieads of (lowers 



and subtended by a long li:< ,, Inatv ID : \vith hooked 



Iristles. MALE II. : ^i-^ula ;;-;">, truneaie. <'n>fl,i loi.ger than the calyx-lobes, rounded, 



illllexed. selo.v exl '-niailv. ^' : : ALE 11. 



(according to (Jrillitlr, in n.nndt.-d, pedniu-led capitula : ji from llie same axil, 



as long as tin- petiole, tl;: spatnalate, concave sepals. ('u/'t<ll<i 



1. Unirii tite, stigmas.'); ovules anatropal, pen- 



dulous. />riij.<'* i heal, each 1 .J, b\ 



acute at both ends, densely coverall wuh Blender, appivs^ed. yellow B< 

 1, albumen ll-shy, papulo>e on the surface, smelling of linseed oil ; radicle broad; cotyle- 

 dons small, Bdborbicular. 



3. P. oblong-a, Wall. PL A*. 1tr. iii. 1^ : branches not prickly, leaves 

 Qblong-lanceolate entire pubescent lieneatli, bracts shorter than the pedicels. 

 Wall. (!'it. l'.K Gynocephatum oblonguin, Tir<:nl in Ann. ,SV. Sat. aer. 3, 

 viii. 149. 



PENAXU, I Vail !//, &.. : MALACCA, (li-'njith, Mn'mjinj. 



Hark striated, brownish. / . ;; in., cohaceOOS, glabn.us above, pu; 



beneath, shortly acaminate, l-nerved, baseacote; ji.-;iolc .', in., rugo-e. MALE il. in 

 axillary racemes or in tufts from the o'.d wood. Racemes >!endrr. densely coveieil, like 

 the pedicels, bracts and perianth, with l.'rown hairs; pedicels filiform, 3-flowered. J'>ru,t-; 

 linear, half the length of the pedicel and more or less adnate to it. X ,>,,!.; -1, ohovate, 

 oljtu.se, concave, ('urnlln \ -p ;rted, lobes r .iir.ided. i-iidimcntary. 



FEMALE ll. (according to Mai; '//x linear-oblo:ig, pale brown, hirsute. Petals 



connate for ^ their length into an infundibuliforni corolla ; lobes ovate, obtuse, hirsute. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with 2 coKaieral, suspended ovules; style twice the length of the 

 corolla, cylindric, veiitr)c(>.-,e, hirsute. L'-;!-partite, divisions subacute, stigmatic on their 

 inner surface. Drupes in globular masses the size of a man's list, each 2 bv | in., 

 oblong-obovoid, obtuse, covere4 with stout, straight, subulate prickles which, falling oil', 

 leave circular pits ; epicarp coriaceous, mesocarp pulpy, stone erustaceous. Cvti//< </utix, 

 according to Maingay, thin, white, divaricate, tortuous, branched, (?) embedded in a 

 fleshy lobulated albumen. 



4. P. palmata, Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 12; stem prickly, leaves pal- 

 mately f)-lobed ferrugiiious-h.iiry beneath, bracts shorter than tlie pedicels. 



Wall. C'lt. 41)49. P. stylocarpa, Grif. S<>tnl. iv. 3^0 ; Ic. PL J nd. Or. 

 489. Gynocephalum palmatuin, Trecul in Ann. Sc.. Nat. ser. 3. viii. 149. 



