Phytocrene. } OLACINEX, 241 
somewhat puberulous spikes in the axils of the leaves; calyx and 
ovary pubescent; style thick and short; drupes (in Sumatran 
specimens) all sterile, obovate, irregularly 4-3-angular, acuminate, 
smooth. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
2. G. Griffithianum, Kz., (Pilebocalymna Grifithiana and 
obbiana, Mast. in H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 590).—An evergreen tree (30—. 
dite ones forming very short glabrous racemes in the axils of the 
leaves; sepals 5, broad-ovate, acute, thick; petals acute; stamens 
RS 5; filaments as long as the tube and adnate to it; anthers ovate, 
Ee acute; ovary puberulous; drupes about 2 in. long, oblong, obtuse, 
terete, woody, smooth, 1-seeded. 
Haz.—Frequent in marshy places of the tropical and in swamp-forests of 
gta Pegu down to Tenasserim.—Fl. rot gs poe penpenee et . Metam. 
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PHYTOCRENE, Wall. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx cup-shaped, soon 3-4-lobed. Petals 
» hypogynous, somewhat, cohering at the base, valvate. Males: 
Stamens 4, alternating with the petals; filaments filiform, very 
shortly united round the hispid ovary-rudiment; anthers versatile. 
Females: Staminodes minute. Ovary conical or cushion-shaped, 
Male flower-heads usually more tawny tomentose, on short but very 
thick pedunclets, numerous in very compound racemes, in a 
iter: state terminating in a short thick tomentose bract-like 
Ste e524 ‘ F 3 ;: : ’ . Ph. gigantea. 
Male flower-heads somewhat smaller and usually greyish-tomen- 
tose, on short but slender pedunclets, — (8-5) sto = 
racemes terminati in long bract-like greyish-tomen 
slender axes , : : ‘ ‘ . Ph. bracteata. 
1. Ph. gigantea, Wall.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 591.—A large woody 
climber, the aegis a foot thick, irregularly tubercled, all 
‘Softer ps tawny or rusty-hirsute; leaves nearly a foot long, 
broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, deeply cordate at base, acuminate, 
_ entire, sometimes 3-lobed , with the lobes blunt or acute, thick-mem- 
branous, above, especially along the nerves, roughish puberulous, 
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