W>0 PROF. OLIVER ON A NEW ANTSOPHYLLEA FROM MALACCA. 
specimens of it, apparently all of one gathering, and none in frnit. A note by Griffith 
accompanies the specimens, with a brief description, locality and date of collection 
(1842). 
Anisophyllea Griffithii, sp. nova. IMiis alternis petiolatis lanceolatis v. ovali-lanceo- 
latis, ssepe leviter acnminatis, apice acntis, coriaceis, siccitate flavescentibus, unicostatis, 
subtus nervis 2 a basi utrinque margini arete parallelis, venulis vix prominentibus reti- 
culatis ; floribus in spicis solitariis v. binis axillaribns, singulis arete sessilibus re- 
motiusculis ; calyce limbo 4-lobato, lobis coriaceis triangularibus sestivatione valvatis ; 
petalis calycis lobis alternantibus, iisdem brevioribus, coriaceis, late quadrato-oblongis 
integris v. vix 3-lobulatis, stamina opposita arete foventibus et cum iisdem plus 
minus aclnatis ; staminibus 8 epigynis, 4 sepalis 4 petalis (longitudine sequalibus) 
oppositis, filamentis crassiusculis, antheris parvis late rotundatis vel didymis, longitu- 
dinaliter dehiscentibus ; ovario infero 4-loculari, ovulis solitariis pendulis, stylis 
4 liberis subulatis. — Arbor verisimiliter. Folia 3-4 tmc. longa, 1-1^ lata, petiolo 
1^-2 lin. Spicce 1^-2^ uric. ; flores circa 1 lin. diametro. Ager Punnus, Malacca, 
W. Griffith. (PL XLVIII.) 
I consider this plant clearly congeneric with Anisophyllea zeylanica, Benth.*, and with 
A. laurina, Br., of West Africa, the original Anisophyllea, of which I have recently had 
the opportunity of dissecting flowers from specimens forwarded by Mr. Mann from the 
Gaboon River. The latter I find to have a 4-locular ovary, with a pendulous ovule in 
each cell and four free styles, as stated by Mr. Bentham in the Addenda to ' Flora 
Xigritana.' A. Griffithii differs from both the above in the absence of the strongly 
marked lateral costse of the leaves and the form of the petals, which in A. laurina and 
A. zeylanica are laciniate or fimbriate. 
Of the remarkable plant described by Jack, in the * Malayan Miscellanies' t, under the 
name of Haloragis disticha, I have not had the opportunity of dissecting flowers ; but 
from his description, and from the appearance of flowerless specimens, it is very probably 
a species of Anisophyllea, with which genus it is associated in Sir W. J. Hooker's 
Herbarium. 
I cannot but consider that this genus was more correctly disposed of by Mr. Bentham 
under the order Rhizophoraeese than it has been since by Drs. Hooker and Thomson in 
Hamamelideael, or by Mr. Thwaites in Barringtonieae § . 
It has no very close affinity with any described genus that I am aware of ; but, except- 
ing in its alternate leaves, it presents much in common with some Bhizophoreous plants, 
though considerably removed from the true Mangroves. The divided or lobed petals (as 
in A. zeylanica), closely involute around their opposed stamens (as in A. Griffithii), point 
strongly to this relationship, which is not weakened by its inferior 4-celled ovary and 
tetramerous symmetry, with valvate aestivation of the calyx. Some of these characters, 
especially the latter-named, remove it from known genera of Hamamelidese. I have not 
* Niger Flora, p. 343. f Reprint in Calc. Journ. iv. p. 336. t 
