Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 869 



angular ; bract and 2 bracteoles concave, thick, shorter tlian the sepals, 

 the bract orbicular, ciliate, the bracteoles ovate, ciliate, acute. Calyx- 

 segments thick, -1 in. long, ciliate, slightly pubescent on the back near 

 the base, above glabrous and rugose. Coro//a-tube very short, some- 

 times almost none ; lobes 4, ovate, concave, acute at tip, the posterior 

 one sometimes bifid, -1 in. long, glabrous. Stamens included ; filament 

 •03 in. long ; anthers "02 in. long, oblong ; cells parallel. Ovary 

 columnar, with very short conical villous style, together "05 to "1 in. 

 long; stigmatic lobes 2, erect, thick, minute. Capsules -5 to -75 in. 

 long, obpyriform, gibbous on one side, acute or acuminate ; pericarp 

 green {Kunstler) with greyish tomentum. Seed 1, completely filling 

 the lower part of the capsule. Wight Ic. t. 1482 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 II. 913 ; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 436 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 221 ; 

 Prain Beng. Plants 838. A. officinalis, Linn., var. aZ&a, Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 604. A. resinifera, Griff. Notul. IV. 186, and in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. XX. 6, fig. 1. A. intermedia, Griff. I. c. A. officin- 

 alis, Kurz For. Fl. 11. 275. 



Province Wellesley : in mangrove swamps, Curtis. Dindings : 

 Pangkore, Scortechini 963. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 6070, 6071; 

 Maingay (K.D.) 1209. Singapore : Kunstler {King's Collector) 1152. 

 — DisTRiB. India, Burma, Java, Borneo, Celebes, to North Australia, 

 in tidal creeks. 



Koorders & Valeton draw attention to the capitate heads shown in Wight's 

 drawing, and refuse to quote t. 1482. We have seen Koorders' Nos. 9696 and 22009 

 "from Java, which have the heads spicate, as do Kunstler's specimens No. 1152. Havi- 

 land's Borneo specimens are partly spicate, partly capitate ; Scortechini's Pangkore 

 specimens are capitate. But in all the structure of the flowers is the same and agrees 

 with that given in Wight's drawing, so there seems no room for even a variety. 



