Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 519 
petals 5 in both sexes, much smaller than the sepals and attached 
just external to the disc ; stamens 5, within the disc, surrounding a 
central trifid pistillode, filaments free or united only at the base 
anthers adnate, loculi parallel ; disc in both sexes a shallow cup or 
ring, thinly fleshy, with 4+ crenulate margin, glabrous ; ovary sessile 
on the disc, subglobose, 3-locular, the loculi 2-ovuled, glabrous 
or tomentose; styles 3, minute, free or united at the base, thick, 
entire or bifid, persistent. Jruit a dry 3-coccate capsule, loculici- 
dal or the cocci breaking into 2 valves, leaving a central colu- 
mella. Cocci 1—2-seeded. Seeds triquetrous, rather large, with 
ecnvex dorsum and 2 plane lateral surfaces meeting at an acute 
angle; testa thin; albumen scanty or 0; cotyledons fleshy, condu- 
plicate. Species about 10, distributed from Southern and Eastern 
India to the Malayan Archipelago and Australia. 
2 sepals 1—2 cm. long; ovary tomentose ot jel Alovalea: 
2 sepals only a few mms. long; ovary glabrous. 
Lamina relatively small, rarely longer than 17 cm. or 
broader than4'5cm. .. o6 ae .. 2. A. excelsa. 
Lamina relatively large, up to 30 cm. long and 9:5 cm. 
broad a ae Ae ae .. 3. A javanica. 
1. ACTEPHILA OVALIS (Ridley), Gage in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind., 1X, | 
No. 2 (1922), 219. A?shrub or? tree. Branchlets at first angled and 
grooved, later subterete, 2—4 mm. thick, + minutely puberulous, 
brown; internodes a few mms. to 5 cm. long. Lamine elongate 
ovate or obovate or lanceolate, membranous, 6—15 cm. long, 2—6 
em. broad, with obtuse apex in obovate lamine acuminate in others, 
base cuneate or subcuneate, glabrous on both surfaces, subnitid 
and pale green to olivaceous on the upper, dull and paler on the 
lower ; midrib slender on both surfaces ; nerves 12—16; reticula- 
tion delicate ; petiole slender, 2—4 mm. long, glabrous or with a 
few minute hairs ; stipules membranous, broadly lanceolate, 2—2°5 
mm. long, glabrous er with a few minute hairs on outer surface 
Male inflorescence not seen. Female inflorescence of solitary flowers 
in the axils; pedicels 4—6 cm. long, slender, slightly thickening 
towards the calyx, glabrous or with a few minute hairs near the 
calyx; calyx spreading, 2°5—4-4 cm. across; sepals slightly un- 
equal, membranous or subscarious, broadly ovate, acute, 1—2 cm. 
long, °6—1:5cm. broad, sparsely puberulous and obscurely glandular 
or eglandular at the base, with midrib and 3—4 nerves radiating 
from the base on each side of the midrib, and with clear dendritic 
reticulation ; petals minute, membranous, distant, ovate or obovate 
