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the edges entire ; both surfaces shining, the lower much reticulate ; 

 main nerves 9-12 pairs, spreading, curving upwards ; length 3'5-5*5 in., 

 breadth I '25-2* 5 in., petiole -25-' 3 5 in. Fascicles 6-10-flowered, axillary, 

 shorter than the petioles. Flowers less than 1 in. long, the pedicels 

 about as long as the fruir -producing flowers, sub-dioecious ; the stamen- 

 bearing flowers with perfect petals, but the ovary and stigma abortive ; 

 the flowers with fertile ovaries and with perfect stigmas having imper- 

 fect stamens and often abortive petals. Fruit a globular glabrous berry 

 •1--15 in. in diam. Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1, 127, t. XXXI ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I. Pt. I, 592 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 451 ; Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 440. G. Dryptopetalum, Blume Mus. 1. c. 127 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. c. 592. Dryptopetalum coriaceum, Arn. in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. I, 372. G. reticulata, A. Gray. Bot. Amer. Expl. Expedit. Vol. I, 

 607 ? Microtropis coriacea, Wall. Cat. 4338. Gasearia ? acuminata, 

 Wall. Cat. 7198. Bubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8455. 



In all the provinces ; common. Distrib. The Malayan Archipelago. 



8. Aktsophyllea, Br. 



Trees and shrubs. Leaves exstipulate, distichous, obliquely ovate- 

 lanceolate or elliptic, with 3-5 main nerves proceeding from the base 

 (the nervation pinnate in one species), quite entire ; the alternate leaves 

 sometimes smaller or minute and stipuliform. Flowers monoecious, 

 minute, in axillary simple or fascicled spikes, ebracteate or minutely 

 bracteolate. Calyx-tube of 9 flower ovoid, adnate to the ovary, terete 

 or ribbed ; limb 4-fid, lobes erect. Petals 4, small, involute, entire, lobed 

 or lacerate. Stamens 8 ; filaments short, subulate ; anthers small, didy- 

 mous, usually abortive in the females. Ovary inferior, 4-celled ; styles 

 4, subulate, erect or recurved, stigmas acute or subcapitate ; ovules 

 solitary in each cell, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit coriaceous, oblong 

 or pyriform, ribbed or smooth, 1-seeded. Seed pendulous, exalbumin- 

 ous, testa coriaceous, embryo clavate, cotyledons very small or 0, radicle 

 large. Distrib. Species 10, natives of Tropical Asia and Africa. 



Leaves dimorphous ... ... ... ... 1. A. disticha. 



Leaves uniform : — 



Flowers apetalous... ... ... ... 2. A. apetala. 



Flowers with 4 petals : — 



Petals minute, deltoid .. ... ... 3. A. Gaudichaudiana. 



Petals thick, subqnadrate, entire or snbemarginate 4. A. Griffithii. 



Petals 3-fid at the apex ... ... .. 5. A. Scortechinii. 



Petals divided to the very base into narrow seg- 

 ments ... ... .. ... 6, A. Curtisii. 



1. Anisophyllea disticha, Baill. in Adansonia, XI, 311. A shrub 

 with ferruginous-pilose slender branches. Leaves dimorphous, in two 



