A.DSURA 



^orbicular; ^ a& ovate-rotund. Artkm as a, & prop i„ q u a . Fruit 1 to 2 * W 



the rachs slender, smooth; carpck globose, sub-sessile- seeds 1 ot o , ?' 



*J5SLT* * 4,00 ° t0 6 ' 000 feet; s,,an Hil,s - u n~ ^ m- LT 



Distrib.— Java and Sumatra. 



Specimens from Java have leaves from 1 to 1-5 in. broad, and the pedicels of 

 the flowers are much longer than in those from the Khasia Hills ' 



« fli LA1 V 4 f' Sdlizandra axilIaris > ****** flowering branch: */ natural m,; 

 8, flower; 9, stamens: enlarged. 



8. Kadsura, Kaempfer. 



Climbing glabrous shrubs. Leaves exstipulate. Flowers unisexual, white, yelIo„ 

 reddish, axillary or in the axils of scales near the base of short, lateral, leafy bran, h 

 Sepals and petals 9 to 12, imbricate in about 3 series. <? Stamens 5 to 15 



w or 



or more, 



in a spiral series ; filaments very short, free or sub-connate, often fleshy ; anthers free 

 or sub-immersed in a fleshy head of confluent filaments; cells small, remote 



? Ot 



many, densely imbricated; stigma sessile; ovules 2 to 4. Fruit a globose head of 

 mdehiscent, fleshy, 1-seeded carpels. Seeds 1 or 2, suspended; albumen fleshy; testa 

 crustaceous; embryo minute. Distrib.— Temp, and sub-trop. Asia. Species about 8. 



Synopsis of species. 



Individual carpels mucronate or beaked. • 



Leaves broadly ovate to ovate-oblong; flowers and fruit mostly axillary . . \. K. acandais. 



„ ovate-rotund ; flowers and fruit usually on the stem below the leaves . 2. K. cauhflom. 



„ ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate ; filaments mostly connate . . 3. K. Hoxhurghiana. 

 Individual carpels truncate, not beaked. 



Leaves broadly ovate ; filaments all free 4. JT. Wigktkma* 



a 



lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate 5. Km / mceo / ato 



1. K. scandens, BL FL Jav. Schizandrew, p. 9, t. 1. A woody, glabrous climber 

 30 "to 40 feet long; the bark dark-coloured, irregularly striate. Leaves coriaceous 

 broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, entire; the hum rounded, very ilightly 

 decurrent along the petiole; main nerves about 5 pairs, sub-erect; length of blade 

 4 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 4 in.; petiole about 1 in., expanded at the base. Flowers 

 axillary, with a few from the trunk below the leaves, solitary, on bracteolate peduncles- 

 those of both sexes similar. Calyx of 3 triangular sepals much shorter than the petals 

 and united at the base. Petals ovate-oblong, blunt, fleshy, ereeto-patent, sub-concave. 

 Male flowers with numerous short, cuneate, equal stamens, densely packed on an ovoid 

 fleshy receptacle ; the connective fleshy ; the anthers sub-truncate, 2-celled. Female 

 flowers without stamens; the ovaries numerous, compressed; the stigmas sessile, elongate 

 fleshy. Ripe fruit sub-globose, 2 to 2*5 in. in diam. ; the individual carpels sessile, 



globose or sub-compressed, fleshy, mucronate or beaked, less than *5 in. in diam. Miq. 



FL Ind. Bat i,pt ii, 19; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 58 } pt. ii, 375.— Sarcocarpon 

 scandens j BL Bijdr. 21* 



Perak, Penang; at low elevations. 



Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gabd. Calcutta, Yol. m, 



