198 cxxx. THYMEL^ACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Linostoma. 



pairs. Stamens 10, filaments filiform, exserted ; anthers ovoid or oblong. 

 Disk 0. Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; style filiform, stigma penicillate. Fruit 

 ovoid, included or not in the inflated base of the perianth, pericarp dry 

 corky or crustaceous. Testa membranous, albumen 0. Species 5 or 6, 

 Indian and Brazilian. 



1. L. pauciflorum, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 234, in note ; 

 quite glabrous, leaves 1-1 J- in. very shortly petioled elliptic or oboyate 

 apiculate, peduncle slender 1-2-fld., perianth glabrous, tube slender. 3feissn. 

 in DC. Prodr. xiv. 2. 600 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, ii. 83, and 

 For. Fl. ii. 334. Psilsea dalbergioides, Miguel Fl.Ind. JBat. Suppl.355. 



TENASSERIM ; in the Pine forests of Martaban, alt. 3-4000 ft., Kurz. SINGAPORE, 

 Griffith, Maingay. DISTEIB. Sumatra. 



An erect shrub, 4-6 ft. ; branches long, slender, black when dry. Leaves thin, 

 rather glaucous beneath ; nerves very numerous, spreading, parallel, slender ; petiole 

 T ' 8 in. Peduncle filiform, 1-2 in. ; bracts leaf-like, but thinner, white, translucent; 

 flowers few, nodding, greenish-white ; , pedicel short, slender. Perianth f in. long, 

 very slender ; lobes linear-oblong ; scales clavate. Fruit % in. long, excluding the 

 persistent perianth-lobes, quite glabrous, ellipsoid but narrowed above and below, 

 perianth-tube with 10 slender ridges j pedicel swollen at the tip, pericarp coria- 

 ceous. 



2. ^Ii. decandrum, Wall. Cat. 4203 ; quite glabrous, leaves 2-3 in. 

 petioled oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, peduncle many-fld., perianth 

 glabrous, tube ovoid. M^eissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 599; Kurtf in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Seng. 1870, ii. 83, and For. Fl. ii. 334 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 372. 

 Nectandra decandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 425. 



SILHET, Roxburgh. CHITTAGONG, at Seetakoond, J. D. H. Sf T. T. TENASSERIM, 

 Kurz. 



An erect evergreen shrub ; branches slender, dark, speckled with white. Leaves 

 coriaceous, red-brown when dry, sometimes caudate-acuminate ; nerves exceedingly 

 slender and numerous ; petiole - in. Peduncle 2-3 jn., rather stout, 6-10-fld. j 

 bracts sessile, oblong, obtuse o,r acute, smaller than the leaves. Floivers umbellate, 

 greenish-white, fragrant ; pedicels in. long, jointed in the middle under the flower. 

 Perianth-tube quite glabrous, in. long ; lobes linear, as long as the tube ; scales 

 erect, clavate. Fruit | in. long, broadly ellipsoid, acute above and below, perianth- 

 tube sparingly silkily villous. 



3. Xi. scandens, Kurz in Journ. As. 'Soc. Seng. 1870, ii. 83, and For. 



Fl. ii. 334 ; finely rusty-tomentose, leaves 2-3 in. petioled broadly oblong or 

 elliptic, tip rounded or retuse, flowers in panicled peduncled heads or urrfbels. 

 Bnkleia malaccensis, G-riff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 234 in note, and 

 Notul. iv. 363. -L. siameose, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, ii. 83, and 

 For. Fl. ii. 334. Lasiosiphon scandens, JEndl. Gen. PI. . Suppl. iv. pt. 2, 

 67 ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 2. 598. 



PEGU and TENASSEBIM, Kurz. MALACCA, Griffith. SINGAPORE, Schomburglc, 

 Naingay. 



A lax climbing shrub with long decurved branches. Leaves sometimes acute at 

 the top and subcordate at the base, coriaceous, nearly glabrous except the midrib 

 above, nerves arched ; petiole - in. Peduncles stout, fruiting 1-3 in. long ; bracts 

 leaf-like, but thinner. Flowers imbricate, rusty-pubescent, greenish-brown. Perianth- 

 tube cylindric ; lobes 5, ovate ; scales white, petaloid. Fruit nearly J in. long, sub- 

 globose, on a short stout pedicel, ribbed, often bearing at its base the split perianth- 

 tube, tip conical, glabrous, marked by two opposite whitish-yellow lines. My specimens 

 have no flowers, and the description is taken from Griffith. 1 have seen no 'Tenasserim ' 

 specimens. Kurz's L. siamsnse is identical with scandens. 



