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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 525 
minutely multi-bracteolate axillary fascicles, apetalous, males 
often numerous, females usually few in a fascicle. Calyx of 
both sexes similar, deeply 5-partite, with sepals imbricate in bud. 
Stamens 5 or sometimes fewer, free; anthers erect, extrorse, with 
parallel loculi and longitudinal dehiscence ; disc in the ¢ of minute 
glands alternating with the stamens ; pistillode 2—3-partite. Ovary 
3-locular, seated on an annular disc, the loculi 2-ovuled; styles 3, 
basally connate, recurved or spreading, 2-partite, the branches entire 
or bifid. Fruit baccate or breaking into 2-valved cocci. Seeds 
triquetrous ; albumen rather scanty ; embryo incurved, with broad 
flat cotyledons. Distris. About 6 species in Tropical Africa and 
Asia. 
FLUEGGEA virosa, Baill. Et. Euphorb. 593, t. xxvi, f. 39 (1858). 
Branchleis divaricate glabrous, ‘5—2 mm. thick, quadrangular, 
ribbed, brown, + lenticellate; internodes -S5—2 cm. long. Lamine 
ovate, oblong ovate or obovate, membranous, 1-5—4 cm. long, ‘8—2-2 
em. broad, with rounded to subacute apex, entire margin and acute 
base, glabrous and dull on both surfaces, glaucescent on the lower; 
midrib nerves and nervules slender; nerves 6—9, curved outwards 
and forwards to inarch near the margin: nervules irregular ; reticu- 
lation irregularly polygonal, close; petiole slender, glabrous, sub- 
terete, 3—6 mm. long; stipules triangular. acute, glabrous, 2—2-5 
mm.long. Sracteoles of fascicles ovate or triangular, membranous, 
glabrous, °5—1 mm. long. ¢ flowers on terete, glabrous, 2—4 mm. 
long pedicels; calyx obovoid in bud; sepals subequal, oblong ovate 
or obovate, "7—1 mm. long, membranous, glabrous, with minutely 
erosulate apical margin; glands fleshy, + angled; pistillode con- 
spicuous, glabrous, deeply 3-fid, the branches with recurved dilated 
and + divaricately bifid apex. 92 flowers on glabrous terete -7—3 
mm. long pedicels; calyx 4—5-partite, the sepals unequal, ovate 
1—2 mm. long, entire or + erosulate ; disc thinly fleshy, crenulate ; 
ovary pyriform, glabrous; styles loricate, deeply bifid. Fruiting 
pedicel filiform, 25—35 cm. long; fruit indehiscent, depressed 
globose, white, 5—8 mm. in diam., with fleshy mesocarp. Seeds 1:7 
—2-4 mm. long. Hook. f. 328; J. J. Smith 51; Fl. Trop. Africa, 
VI, Sect. I. Pt. IV, 736. 
Kepau: K.C. 700!; Sungei Ryah, K.C. 99!. DistrRis. 
Tropical Africa. Asia and Australia. 
