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circumsciss at the broadest part, the top calyptrate deciduous, 
the base not much (up to 6 mm.) enlarged in fruit. Stamens 4, 
sessile, the anthers ovate. Carpels many, glabrous except for 
villous hairs at the base; style curved, subulate; ovule rather 
large. Fruit (immature) an ovate slightly angled drupe 12—15 
mm. long on a slender stalk about 10 mm. long, several together 
on the only slightly enlarged perianth base; pericarp black when 
dry. Perk. and Gilg in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 52 and XLIX. 
16. t. 7 A. 
SrycarorE: at Bidasi, Angmoko, Bukit Timah, Chanchu Kang, 
etc., Ridley 9165!.—Distris. Borneo (Sarawak, Beccari 3236!), 
Philippines. 
2. Kisara, Endl. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or dentate. Flowers 
moncecious, small, in axillary or lateral cymes or panicles; bracts 
very small. Perianth ovoid, globular or hemispherical, nearly 
closed by 4 short lobes in 2 series, those of 3 erect, those of @ in- 
flexed, hooked; pedicels usually long; in fruit the ¢@ perianth 
circumsciss above the disk which is much enlarged and often reflexed. 
Stamens 5—8, 2-seriate; filaments thickened; anthers 1-celled, open- 
ing vertically in 2 unequal valves; staminodes in 9 flowers 0. 
Carpels many, free, on the inside of the urceolate perianth ; style very 
short; ovule 1, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit a fleshy sessile or 
stipitate drupe, many together seated on the enlarged perianth-tube. 
Seed conform to the drupe; testa membranous; albumen fleshy; 
cotyledons flat, leafy, ovate; radicle thick, superior.—DIsTRIB. 
According to Perkins and Gilg 15 species, in the Malay Peninsula 
and Archipelago. 
The latest work on this genus is that by Miss Janet Perkins in Engler’s 
Bot. Jahrb. xxv. (1898) and in Engler’s Pflanzenreich Heft 4 (1901) and 
Nachtrage Heft 49 (1911). In describing the species of the genus Kibara she 
refers to three of the four species described from the Malay Archipelago by 
Blume in his Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. Vol. II, pp. 88, 89, different Malay 
Peninsula specimens which in the Flora Indica and Flora of British India had 
been placed under K. cortacea, Endlicher, as they had previously been placed 
by Miquel in the Fl. Ind. Bat. Thus: Griffith’s No. 4365 from Malacca is 
referred to K. cusprdata, Blume, as is Maingay’s No. 1307; while Curtis’ 2255 
from Penang is attributed to K. chartacea, Blume, K. cortacea is considered as 
only a Javanese species, with its variety serrulaia first raised to specific rank 
and then in the Nachtrag reduced to varietal. Miss Perkins lays much stress 
on the texture of the leaves and I have found it very difficult to follow her in 
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