Phytocrene.] xxxix. OLACINEJJ:. (Maxwell T. Masters,) 593 



PENANG, Porter, &c. ; MALACCA, Griffith. DISTRIB, Java. 



Branches studded with minute prickles ; shoots, petioles, and nerves of leaves ferru- 

 ginous hispid. Leaves very large, orbicular, cordate, palminerved, lobed halfway down ; 

 lobes oblong-obovate, acute; petiole 4-6 in. MALE fls. in long, axillary, dense, 

 branched racemes, each pedicel supporting a globose head of flowers, Flowers -*% in. 

 Calyx of 3-4 obovate, concave, hairy segments. Corolla longer than the calyx, deeply 

 4-parted, lobes lanceolate acute setose. Stamens, 4, filaments glabrous ; anthers apicu- 

 late. Rudiment of ovary minute, hairy. FEMALE fl. not seen. Drupes 1^ by 1 in., 

 oblong-turbinate, surmounted by the thickened base of the style and covered by dense 

 subulate bristles, some of which are barbed and have a transparent point. Seed pen- 

 dulous ; radicle superior, very short ; cotyledons elongate, linear-oblong, leafy. 



19. IVXIQUSLIA, Meissner. 



Climbing shrubs. Wood with large vessels. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 simple, membranous, usually palminerved. Peduncles supra-axillary, race- 

 mose in the male, solitary in the female plant. Flowers dioecious, capitate. 

 MALE fl, : Calyx minute, 4-5-tid. Corolla separated from the calyx by 

 a long pedicel-like stipes (corolla-tube?), limb 4-5-lobed, lobes valvate, apex 

 inflexed. Stamens isomerous and alternate with the lobes of the corolla, 

 filaments short ; anthers introrse. FEMALE fl. : Calyx as in the male, 

 Corolla not removed from the calyx, lobes free, or nearly so, ultimately re- 

 flexed. Slaminodes 4-5, very small, alternate with the lobes of the corolla 

 or 0. Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; style short, stigma dilated cup-like ; ovules 2, 

 pendulous from the apex of the cavity, raphe dorsal, micropyle superior. 

 Drupe oblong, more or less compressed, surrounded at the base by the 

 persistent calyx, mesocarp thin, endocarp crustaceous externally rugose. 

 tieed, solitary, pendulous albumen fleshy rugulose ; radicle superior; 

 cotyledons elliptic, thick, leafy flat. DISTRIB, Species 5, (perhaps 

 all forms of one variable species, Baillon), distributed in India and the 

 Archipelago. 



The materials in herbaria are not good, and the structure of the male flowers espe- 

 cially requires further examination in a fresh state. 



1. BX. XLleinii, Meissn. Gen. 152 ; leaves obovate-lanceolate shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate subentire or crenulate. Miquelia assamica, Blume, 

 Rwmphia, iv. 37. Jenkinsia assamica, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 

 231, 1. 12; Notul 370, t. 537, f. 2. Araliacea? Kleinii, W. & A. Prodr. i. 

 375, Phytocrene sp. Wight III. ii. 62. 



ASSAM, Griffith ; KHASIA MTS., H.f. & T. 



Glabrescent. Branches strigose when young. Leaves 7-8 by 3 in., glabrous, base 

 tapering, rarely subhastate ; petiole lf-2 in. Peduncles of male plant 12 in., filiform. 

 Flowers capitate, | in. Calyx minute, 3-5-fid. Corolla 4-5-parted, lobes oblong, free, 

 valvate. Filaments very sliort, anthers elongate. Rudiment of pistil depressed. 

 Peduncles of female plant short, thick. Calyx minute, 4-5-lobed. Corolla 4-5-parted, 

 lobes reflexed, greenish. Staminodes minute. Ovary ovoid, apex truncate ; stigma 

 sessile, 4-lobed. Drupe f by ^ in. subsessile, yellowish, obliquely ovoid. 



2. XHX. dentata, Eedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 211, t. 23; leaves 

 oblong acuminate remotely and coarsely toothed, base truncate cordate. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Anarnallay forests, Beddome, 



Branches terete, glabrous. Leaves 8 by 3| in., membranous, glabrous ; petiole 2 in. 

 MALE fl. capitate on supra-axillary racemose peduncles which are shorter than the 

 petiole. Flower-buds club-shaped, truncate. Calyx subcampanulate, 4-toothed. 

 Corolla-lobes lanceolate. /Stamens 4, anthers oblong, base sagittate. Pistil minute, 

 rudimentary. FEJIALE fl. capitate, on a solitary supra-axillary peduncle longer than 



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