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2. Fibraurea chloroleuca, nob. ;—Malacca and Borneo. 
3. laxa, nob. ;—Borneo. 
4. fasciculata, nob. ;—Penang. 
The particulars of these species are given in the ‘ Contribu- 
tions to Botany,’ vol. iii. 
7. TINOMISCIUM. 
When I proposed this genus in 1851, it was placed by me 
among the genera of doubtful position, because its male flowers 
alone were known; but I suggested the probability of its belong- 
ing to the Heterocliniee, on account of its habit. The authors 
of the ‘Flora Indica’ (p. 205) adopted a similar view, and, though 
retaining it among the “ genera dubie sedis,” remarked that a 
plant in fruit from Assam, of Griffiths’s collection, described by 
them (in p.179), probably belonged to the genus. This I had 
long before ascertained from a specimen in fruit shown to me 
by the late Dr. Lemann, where the seeds showed clearly that 
the genus belongs to the Heterocliniew, as I had supposed. The 
drupe is more than an inch in length, with a nearly apical style ; 
its thin rugose putamen has a broad, shallow, longitudinal 
groove on the flattened ventral face ; and from this (the condyle) 
the seed is suspended, or rather is attached to it within the cell : 
from the immaturity of the nucleus, the precise form of the 
embryo could not be ascertained; but its thin foliaceous coty- 
ledons were evident in the half-grown albumen, and in these 
respects it nearly accords with the fruit of Fibraurea. The species 
are all climbers; and the inflorescence consists of elongated slender 
simple racemes, either single or fasciculated, in the axils of the 
leaves. 
Trnomiscium, nob.—Flores dioici. Mase. Sepala 9-12 in ordine 
ternario alternatim disposita, quorum 6 interiora, oblonga, 
extus scabrido-pruinosa, zstivatione imbricata. Petala 6, ob- 
longa, sepalis paulo breviora, submembranacea, marginibus 
involutis. Stamina 6, petalis opposita, subzequilonga, et is 
(in alabastro) amplecta, demum libera; filamenta gradatim 
incrassata, aut apice dilatata; anthere introrse, 2-lobz, lobis 
oblongis, immersis, parallele adnatis, aut divergentibus, rima 
obliqua dehiscentibus, Ovaria rudimentaria 3, centralia, punc- 
tiformia.— Fem. ignoti. Drupe 3 vel abortu pauciores, ovali- 
oblong, compresse, styli vestigio apiculate: putamen ob- 
longum, valde compressum, scrobiculato-tuberculatum, cori- 
aceo-testaceum, dorso convexius, et hine carina subobsoleta 
notatum, ventre planius, sulco longitudinali late canaliculatum, 
1-loculare, 1-spermum; condylus internus, obsoletus, aut 
potius in striam sulcatam longitudimalem reductus; itegus 
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