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2. Illigera lucida, Teysm. & Binn. Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. 

 XXVII, 29. A slender climber ; young shoots puberulous, angled when 

 dry. Common petiole '75-2 in. long, glabrous. Leaflets membranous, 

 oblong or elliptic-oblong, often oblique, the apex shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate ; the base rounded and usually minutely cordate ; both 

 surfaces glabrous and shining ; the lower reticulate; main nerves 12-14 

 pairs, horizontal, interarching far from the edge, slightly prominent 

 on the lower surface, obsolete on the upper; length 3-5 in., breadth 

 1*25-2*25 in., petiole 15-'3 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, very 

 lax ; the ultimate branches sparse, few-flowered. Flowers S in. in diam., 

 on thin puberulous pedicels. Calyx-lobes oblong, sub-acute, glabrous 

 except for a patch of white hairs at the base in front. Petals about as 

 long as the calyx-lobes but much narrower, villous at the base. 

 Stamens shorter than the petals, the anthers large, the filaments villous 

 in the lower half. Fruit (fide T. & B.) 4-winged, two of the wings 

 larger than the other two, glabrous, about 1 in. long. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Vol. I, pt. I, 1094. 



Perak; Scortechini 1610, Curtis 3182. Distrib. Java. 

 This differs from I. appendiculata, Bl. in having narrower leaflets, with much 

 shorter petioles and more numerous nerves which are quite horizontal. The leaves 

 are moreover quite glabrous and shining. The Perak specimens from which the 

 above description has been taken agree absolutely with type specimens of I. lucida 

 received at the Calcutta Herbarium from the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden. 



7. G-yrocarpus, Jacq. 



A tall tree. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, large, entire or lobed, 

 clustered towards the ends of the branches. Flowers small, unisexual, 

 very numerous, clustered in large branched cymes without bracts. 

 Male flowers very numerous; calyx 4-7 - partite ; petals 0) stamens 4-7, 

 inserted at the base of the calyx with as many alternate clavate glands ; 

 anthers 2-celled, dehiscing by valves; ovary 0. Female or herma- 

 phrodite flowers few ; calyx-tube adherent to the ovary, limb 2-partite> 

 persistent, enlarging in fruit ; petals and stamens ; ovary 1-celled ; 

 style 0, stigma sessile ; ovule solitary, pendulous from the apex of the 

 cell. Nut bony, crowned by the elongate spathulate coriaceous calyx- 

 lobes. Seed with convolute cotyledons. A single species. 



Gyrocarpus americanus, Jacq. Select. Am. 282. t. 178. Young 

 branches stout, glabrous. Leaves membranous, broadly rotund-ovate, 

 acuminate, the base broad and sometimes sub-cordate ; the base usually 

 5-nerved, the midrib with about 3 pairs of main nerves ; length 4*5-6 in., 

 breadth 4 or 5 in., petiole 3-5*5. Fruit sub-globular, about 1 in. in 

 diam., minutely pubescent ; the wing narrowly spathulate, '3 in. long. 

 G. Jacquinii, Gaertn. Fruct. II. 92 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 11, Cor. PI. t. 



