1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of tie Malayan Vtnmsula. 387 



Tribe IV. Bonnatticte. Flowers in lateral 

 panicles crowded near tho apices of the branches. 

 .<l?j^/iers versatile J cctpsiiZe dehiscing from base.... JO. Archytaea. 



1. Anneslea, Wall. 



Evergreen glabrous trees or shrubs. Flowers in terminal corymbs, 

 large, white, 2-bracteolate. Sepals, 5, their low3r part fleshy, connate, and 

 adherent to the ovary, their upper part coriaceous and crowning tho 

 fruit. Petals 5, connate by their bases. Stamens numerous ; the filaments 

 short, inserted on the toras ; anthers narrow, elongate, 2-celled, introrse, 

 with a long apiculus from the connective. Ooary half immersed in 

 the torus, 3-celled ; style cylindric, 3-fid : ovules many, pendulous. 

 Fruit a leathery inferior berry crowned by the sepals. Seeds oblong, 

 flattened, emarginate at one end, with a hard testa and fleshy albumen. 

 Distrib. Burmah and Malayan Peninsula : species 2. 



Anneslea crassipes. Hook, in Choisy Mem. Ternst. 41. A bush or 

 small tree ; young branches stout, the bark rough, rather pale. Leaves 

 coriaceous, obovate or oblanceolate with short abrupt blunt acumen, or 

 oblong-lanceolate and acute, much narrowed at the base ; the edge thick- 

 ened and obscurely glandular-serrate ; nerves 6 to 8 pairs, invisible in 

 the fresh, faint in the dry state, the midrib prominent in both : length 

 2*5 to 6 in., breadth 15 to 2*25 in., petiole '6 to 1 in. Flowers 1 to 1"25 in. 

 in diam., in corymbs of 3 to 6 ; pedicels '5 to 1*25 in., recurved ; bracteoles 

 fleshy, square, keeled. Free portion of sepals fleshy, '65 in. long, yellow, 

 rounded or emarginate. Petals smaller than the sepals, membranous, 

 ovate-acuminate. Stamens about 30. Fruit ovoid, 1 to 1*5 in. long 

 (excluding the free part of the sepals), rough; style persistent. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 280. 



Mount Ophir in Malacca ; G riffith &c. — Perak ; on Gunong Batu 

 Puteh at 3,400 ft., Wray, Scortechini. 



Var. ohovata. A busb. Leaves obovate, minutely and bluntly 

 mucronate ; fruit conspicuously verrucose. 



Perak, Gunong Batch, at an elevation of 6,700 feet. 

 Anneslea is practically a Ternstrannia with half inferior fruit. 



2. Adinandra, Jack. 



Small evergreen trees with the habit of Ternstrcemia or Gordonia. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, recurved, 2-bracteate at the apex. Floivers 

 often silky outside. Sepals 5. Petals 5, connate at the base. Stamens 

 many, often 1-4-delphous, the inner smaller; anther cells lateral, nar- 

 row, elongate, the connective apiculate, usually hairy. Ovary 3-5- 

 celled; style ultimately elongate, entire or shortly 3- 5- fid; ovules many 

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