524 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
usually one ? and several # flowers in an axil. Flowers small 
shortly pedicelled ; calyx of both sexes 6-partite or the 2 calyx 
5-partite and persistent; sepals imbricate in bud. Disc of ¢ 
flowers extra-staminal, of 5—6 somewhat elongate subpetaloid lobes 
opposite the sepals; stamens forming a central column with an 
enlarged trigonous apex ; anthers sessile, attached to the angles of 
apex of column, with parallel loculi, extrorse, dehiscing longitudin- 
ally; pistillode absent. ¢ flowers without a disc; ovary when 
young turbinate, with a thick rather fleshy apex; styles 3, short, 
bifid, with incurved stigmas ; loculi 3, each 2-ovuled; later the apex 
of ovary becomes excavate with a 6-lobulate margin and the styles 
sunk in the cavity. ruiz an ovoid dry dehiscent capsule on the 
persistent calyx; cocci 3, bivalved, 2-seeded, breaking away from 
a central columella. Seeds narrowly triquetrous, curved along their 
length ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons plane. 
DISTRIB. 2 species, distributed to India, Malaya and Mauritius. 
AGYNEIA BACCIFORMIS, Ad. Juss. Tent. Euph., 24 (1824). 
An annual or perennial glabrous herb, up to 40cm high. Root 
+ vertical, subterete, tortuous, woody, 2 mm. thick. Stems alter- 
nately or dichotomously branched, slender, subterete or subangular 
internodes ‘5—5 cm. long. Lamine ovate to linear-lanceolate 
membranous, 1—3 cm. long, -2—1'2 em. broad, with acute apex, 
subacute cuneate or obtuse base and entire margin; nerves 5, 
slender, obscure, inarching near the margin; reticulation obscurely 
polygonal ; petiole 1 mm. long; somewhat flattened; stipules 1 mm. 
long, aculeolate. o¢ flowers very minute; sepals oblong ovate ° 
truncate, subtrilobed with inflected apex. 2 flowers very shortly 
pedicelled ; calyx 2 mm. deep; sepals 5—6, subequal, ovate, acute 
gland dotted and margined with white. Capsule subglobosely ovoid, 
obtusely trigonous, 5 mm. high, 4 mm. thick, reddish-brown ; cocci 
slightly carinate. Seeds light brown, with tetragonous tuberculate 
base, acute trigonous apex, and ventral angle truncate for some 
distance, and with a longitudinal hilar excavation. Mull. Arg. 238 ; 
Hook. f. 285. 
Pawane: Kwala Pahang, #&.!. Sincaroru: Tanjong Katong, 
R.1. Distr. India, Ceylon, Java, Mauritius. 
6. Fxiueesna, Willd. 
Unarmed or spinescent shrubs, with small alternate entire 
petioled penninerved leaves. lowers dioecious, small, in basally 
