1893.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 137 



11. Ancistrocladus, Wall. 

 Smooth climbing shrubs with short supra-axillary, of tec arrested 

 and circiuately-hooked, branches. Leaves usually in terminal tufts, 

 coriaceous, entire, r*eticulately feather- veined ; exstipulate. Flowers 

 usually small, very caducous, in terminal or lateral panicles. Calyx- 

 tube at first short, adnate to the base of the ovary, its lobes imbricate, 

 finally turbinate and adnate to the fruit, with the lobes unequally en- 

 larged, spreading and membranous. Stamens 5 or 10, subperigynous. 

 Ovary 1-celled, inferior; style sub-globose, persistent; Stigmas 3, erect, 

 compressed, truncate, deciduous. Ovule solitary, erect or laterally 

 affixed. Seed sub-globose, testa prolonged into the ruminations of the 

 copious fleshy albumen ; embryo short, straight ; cotyledons short, 

 divergent. — Distrib. Except A. guineensis in W. Tropical Africa, con- 

 fined to Tropical Asia and the Indian Archipelago. Species about 10. 



I follow the authors of the Genera Plantarum and the Flora of British India 

 in including Ancistrocladus in Dipterocar'pex. I venture, however, to think that it 

 would be better to keep it as the type of a distinct Natural Order as MM. Planchon 

 and De Candolle have done : for its characters do not fit well into the diagnosis of 

 any other Order 



1. Ancistrocladus extensus, Wall. Cat. 1052. Leaves obovate or 

 obovate-oblong, blunt or sub-acute, much narrowed at the base ; pani- 

 cles dichotomous, about half as long as the leaves : fruit smooth or 

 slightly 5-ridged ; accrescent calyx-lobes oblanceolate, obtuse. Planch, in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XIII, 318. DC. Prodr. XVI, 2, 602; Dyer in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 299. Ancistrolobus sp. Griff. Notul. IV, 568, 

 t. G05. fig. 2. 



Andaman Islands. Distrib. Burmah. 



Var. jjinangianus ; leaves sometimes oblanceolate-oblong, acute or 

 sub-acuminate : panicles slender, lax, about as long as the leaves. 

 Ancistrocladus pinangiamis, Wall. Cat. 1054. Planchon in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 Ser. 3. XIII, 318 ; A. DC. Prodr. XVI. 2, 603 ; Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. I, 300. 



Penang: Porter. Malacca: Maingay. (Kew Distrib.) No. 200. 

 Sino-apore and Perak : King's Collectors. Distrib. Bangka, Sumatra, 

 Burmah. 



