242 OLACINER. ~ [ Sarcostigma. 
and glossy, beneath softly greyish or pale tawny tomentose and 
laxly net-veined between the palmate nerves; male flowers sessile, 
in little greyish or tawny tomentose heads of the size of a small 
pea, forming short racemes supported by a long deciduous bract 
and collected in elongate large tawny or greyish-tomentose raceme- 
like panicles arising by 3-5 from the older branches; bracts subu- 
late, about 4 in. long or longer, tawny pubescent, usually fallen 
before opening of the flowers. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests along choungs of the eastern — 
i erim.— Fl. Febr.—s. 
slopes of the Pegu Yomah; more frequent. in Tenass ate oe 
SS. = SiS. Metam. 
NV. B.—P. bracteata, Wall., is said to occur m South Tenasserim. 
SARCOSTIGMA, WA. 
Calyx cup-shaped, irregularly 4-5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, 
adnate to the stalk-like torus and ecohering in a short tube, free 
upwards, valvate. Males: Stamens 4-5, alternating with the petals 
nd eohering with them at the base; filaments filiform ; anthers 
versatile. Females: Ovary sessile beyond the corolla-tube, 1-celled 
with 2 pendulous ovules; stigma sessile. Drupes with a single 
almost woody nut. Albumen none.—Scandent shrubs, with coria- 
ceous much net-veined leaves. Flowers minute, in long spikes. 
1. S. edule, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 594.—A large woody climber, 
parts glabrous; leaves oblong or elliptically oblong, rather 
shortly petioled, obtuse at base, very shortly and bluntish apiculate, 
coriaceous, entire, glabrous, strongly and elegantly net-vemed on 
both sides; racemes rusty or tawny tomentose; drupes unequally 
oblong, somewhat compressed, blunt, densely and shortly tomentose, 
orange-coloured, with a thin edible sweetish pulp round the nut. 
Has.—Rather i i Ts 
tie, 2 Siar gee rag the tropical forests of the Andamans.—fr. 
NATSIATUM, Ham. 
icum, Ham.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 595.—A large climber, 
i. : 
all softer parts shortly hispid and retrorsely rough ; leaves broadly 
See Hole, 4-6 in and broad, 
cordate, on a long and slender petiole, 4-6 in. long 
hort A 
shortly acuminate, obsoletely repand, minutely toothed by the = 
