Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 523 
minute, on filiform, hirsute or glabrous, -‘5—1 cm. long pedicels, 
calyx cupular, 1 mm. long and broad, divided almost to base into 
5 oblong ovate or obovate sepals, sparsely hirsute on outer surface 
glabrous on inner; petals much narrower than sepals, spatulate 
hyaline, ‘5 mm. long, glabrous; disk of as many pairs of glands as 
sepals and opposite the latter; the glands linear, submembran- 
ous, glabrous, half as long as the sepals; stamens free, with very 
filiform glabrous filaments half as long as the sepals: anthers 
minute, subquadrately ovate ; pistillode central, of several, minute, 
subterete lobes. 9 flowers larger than the ¢, on slender hirsute 
pedicels that may reach 1 em. in length; calyx 4 mm. long, other- 
wise as in the ¢; petals 0 or very minute; disk glands opposite 
the sepals, short, obovate, bluntly bilobulate; ovary globosely 
ovoid, hirsute, 1:5 mm. in vertical, 2 mm. in transverse diam., 
styles glabrous, less than 1 mm. long, bifid almost to the base ; 
stigmas clavellate. Capsule subglobose, depressed, hirsute, 4 mm. 
in diameter. Seeds triquetrous, 1:5 mm. long, 1 mm. thick, with 
longitudinally curved dorsal and 2 plane lateral surfaces, all trans- 
versely plurisulcate, glabrous and dark brown. Mull. Arg., 235; 
Hook. f., 284 and Ic. Plant. XVIII t. 1704. A. Decaisnei Bth. Fl 
Austral. VI, 88. 
PERLIS: Tebeng Tenggi, &. 14883!. Kepau: Langkawi, C 
2540 !. 
Perak: Larut, K.C. 2383!; Gunong Pondo, K.C. 8336!. Ss- 
LANGOR: Kwala Lumpa, Kelsall! ; Gua Batu, R. 8203!. 
Distris.—Siam, Malayan Archipelago, Philippines, Australia. 
Andrachne fruticosa was the name originally given by Linnaeus to the 
species now known as Breynia patens Bth. Decaisne in 1834 published the 
description of a species from Timor under the name ‘‘ Andrachne fruticosa L.”’ 
assuming incorrectly that it was the plant of Linnaeus. As the plant of 
Linnaeus was not an Andrachne while Decaisne’s plant was, J. Muller in DC 
Prodr. XV, II, 235 (1886) retained Decaisne’s name and applied it to Decaisne’s 
plant. The Malayan Peninsula specimens agree with Decaisne’s plant. Hooker 
f in Ic. Plant. xviii, t. 1704 does not agree with Miiller, who placed Cumming’s 
Philippine specimens under A. australis. Hooker considers part if not all of 
A australis Mull. Arg. as A. fruticosa Dene. Hooker also rejects, which I think 
good reason, Bentham’s name of A. Decaisnez in the Flora of Australia. 
5. AGyYNeErA L. 
Annual or perennial ascending or procumbent herbs with 
diffuse angled or compressed stems and alternate stipulate leaves 
Inflorescence of monoecious apetalous flowers in axillary fascicles 
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