442 LVIT. RHIZOPHOKE^E. (G. Henslow.) [Anisophyllea. 



bably abortive in the females. Ovary inferior, 4-celled ; styles 3-4, subulate, 

 erect or recurved, stigmas acute or subcapitate ; ovules solitary in each cell, 

 pendulous, anatropous. Fruit coriaceous, oblong or pyriform, ribbed or smooth, 

 1-seeded. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous, testa coriaceous ; embryo clavate, co- 

 tyledons very small or 0, radicle large. DISTKIB. Species 5, natives of Tropical 

 Asia and Africa. 



1. A. zeylanica, Benth. in Niger Flora 342 and 375; leaves broadly 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate narrowed at the base with about five prominent 

 nerves parting from the base, inflorescence of racemes supra-axillary solitary or 

 geminate. Thwaites Enum. 119 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 195. Tetracrypta cinna- 

 momoides, Gardn. fy Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. i. 314 and v. 378, t. 5. 



CEYLON; southern and central parts ascending to 1500 ft. 



A tree 40-50 ft. ; bark smooth ; lower branches horizontal, upper suberect ; twigs 

 puberulous. Leaves glabrous on both surfaces, younger red ; pairs opposite in verna- 

 tion, the smaller squamiform 1-nerved caducous, the larger 5-nerved with involute 

 margins. Flowers small, subsessile. Bracts minute. Calyx-limb superior, 4-cleft; 

 lobes acute, valvate, persistent. Petals somewhat fleshy, Liciniate, induplicate in 

 aestivation ; segments 5, linear-subulate. Stamens 8, alternately shorter ; filaments 

 subulate, inserted on the calyx ; anthers versatile. Styles 4, erect, conico-subulate, 

 stigmas capitate. 



2. A. distich a, Hook, in Herb.; leaves rhomboid-oblong inequilateral 

 5-nerved distichous entire, flowers subsolitary, petals 3-toothed. Haloragis 

 disticha, Jack, in Mai. Misc. ii. 19; and in Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 371. 



MALAY PENINSULA; Jack. SINGAPORE. DISTEIB. Sumatra 



A shrub with rusty hairy branches. Leaves in two series, one of large leaves and 

 another of very small stipuliform ones inserted below the insertion of the larger so 

 as to overlap their bases ; the larger 1-1^ in., subsessile, nearly glabrous above, be- 

 neath with short appressed hairs, the smaller J in., similar in shape but more acute.. 

 Calyx-lobes persistent. Petals shorter than calyx, 3 -fid. Stamens as long as the pe- 

 tals ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary -4-gonous, ferruginous, 4-celled ; styles 4, equalling tha 

 stamens ; stigmas simple. Drupe oblong-ovate, red ; stone with 8 longitudinal fur- 

 rows, 1-seeded. 



3. A. Griffith!!, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 460, t. 48 ; leaves 

 lanceolate or ovate often slightly acuminate, spikes solitary or geminate. 



MALACCA, Griffith. 



Probably a tree. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1^ in., petiole ^-in., coriaceous, turning yel- 

 low on drying ; nerves 3, 1 central, 2 closely parallel to the margin. Flowers sessile, 

 somewhat remote. Calyx-lobes coriaceous, triangular, valvate. Petals shorter than 

 the sepals, coriaceous, broadly quadrate-oblong, entire or scarcely 3-lobed. Stamens 

 8, 4 opposite to and closely embraced by the petals, filaments rather stout ; anthers 

 small, rounded or didymous. Ovary 4-celled below ; styles 4. 



4. A. grandifolia, G. Henslow ; leaves oblong acuminate scarcely nar- 

 rowed at the base 5-nerved quite entire, panicles axillary with subfasciate 

 branches. 



PENANG, Maingay. 



A tree about 50 ft., trunk very stout. Leaves large, 3^-1 in., coriaceous. In- 

 florescence of several somewhat flattened or fasciate branches, forming an irregular- 

 panicle ; pedicels bearing numerous minute sessile male flowers with a few female 

 possessing rudimentary ? stamens ; male buds i in. in diam., female rather larger. 

 MALE FL. Sepals 4, valvate, puberulous ; lobes triangular. Petals 4, fringed. Sta- 

 mens 8, opposite to and embraced by the petals ; filaments short. Pistil rudimentary ; 



