522 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
depressed, subglobose, 1:5 em. high, 2°3 cm. broad, breaking into 3 
bivalved 1—2-seeded cocci. Seed 1:25 em. long, with obscurely 
striate and mottled testa. Mull. Arg., 222; Hook. f., 283; J. J. 
Smith, 46. 
Penane: West Hill, C.!. Senanaor: Batu Caves, R. 13,375! 
Sincaror&: Anderson 170!; Garden Jungle, R. 402!, 403 !. 
In addition to these species K.C. No. 5073 collected in Larut Perak seems 
a new species of Actephila, but the material is too imperfect for description. 
4. ANDRACHNE, Linn. 
Shrubs or suffruticose herbs with erect or decumbent branches, 
glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate, 
stipulate, entire, penninerved or + distinctly 3-nerved. Flowers 
monoecious, axillary, pedicelled, the # often fasciculate, the ? 
solitary; calyx of both sexes divided into 5—6 sepals imbricate 
in bud; petals as many as sepals, smaller, in @ flowers minute; 
disk usually of membranous glands, entire or bilobed, free or vari- 
ously connate. Stamens 5—6, alternate with the petals; anthers 
erect subglobose, with parallel loculi; pistillode central, minute; 
cylindrical, entire or 3-partite. Ovary subglobose, substipitate, 
trilocular ; styles 3, connate below, bifid above; stigmas subcapi- 
tate. Fruit a capsule of 3 bivalved 2-seeded cocci; seeds curved, 
exarillate, ecarunculate, alouminous; cotyledons broad, flat. 
Species about 20, variously distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa 
and N. America. 
ANDRACHNE FRUTICOSA, Dene. (non Linn.) in Nouv. Ann. Mus. 
III, 484 (1834). 
A small erect branched shrub, -3—-6 m. high. Stem terete, 
2 mm. thick, pale brown, sparsely shortly hirsute or glabrescent, 
spatingly alternately branched; branches like the stem but more 
slender; internodes ‘5—2°5 cm. long. Lamine ovate or obovate, 
membranous, 3—9 cm. long, 1‘5—4 cm. broad, with acute apex, 
cuneate base and entire margin; upper surface pale green, with 
slender midrib and nerves, sparsely adpressedly hirsute at first, then 
glabrous or sparsely hirsute on midrib ; lower surface paler green, 
subglaucous, with slightly prominent midrib and nerves, sparsely 
adpressedly hirsute ; nerves 3—4, subopposite or alternate, curved 
forward and outward to inarch with each other near the margin; 
reticulation delicate, irregularly polygonal; petiole slender, sub- 
terete, + — hirsute, ‘5—2 cm. long; stipules...... . & flowers 
