156 S. Kurz — Contributions towards a Knowledge [No. 3, 



Hab. Frequent in marshes of the tropical and swamp forests, from 

 Southern Pegu down to Tenasserim. — PL Dech. to March ; Fr. Li. S. 



Phytocrene, Wall. 



Conspectus of species. 



Male flower-heads usually more tawny, tomentosc, on short hnt very thick pedunclets, 

 numerous in very compound racemes terminating in the young state in short thick 

 tomentose bract-like sterile axes, , Ph. gigantea. 



Male flower-heads somewhat smaller and usually greyish, tomentose, on short hut slen- 

 der pedunclets, few (8 — 5), in simple short racemes terminating in long bract-like 

 greyish-tomentose slender axes, Ph. bracteata. 



1. Ph. gigantea, Wall. PI. As. var. III. 11. t. 216 ; Griff. Not. Dicot. 

 t. 490. f. 2 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 591. 



Hab. Not unfrequent along choungs in the tropical forests of the 

 eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah ; more frequent in Tenasserim. — Fl. Febr. 



2. Ph. beacteata, Wall. Fl. As. var. III. 12 ; DC. Prod. XVII. 12 ; 

 Hf, Ind. Fl. I. 592. 



Hab. South-Tenasserim ; Mergui (Griff. 830) teste Baillon. 

 The so-called bracts of the male inflorescences in this genus are, in my 

 opinion, only the sterile end-branchings of the partial racemes. 



Sarcostigma, WA. 



1. S. Wallichii, Baill. in Aclans. X. 282 ; DC. Prod. XVII. 16 ; 

 Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 594.— (JS. edule, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 298 ; 

 Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 594.) 



Hab. Frequent in the tropical forests of the Andaman islands. — Fl. 

 Febr. ; Fr. May to June. 



Masters says that this species ($. edule) is probably only a form of 

 S. Eleinii, but in this he is mistaken, for the latter differs by quite glabrous 

 drupes and inflorescences ; and he evidently confounds two species under this 

 name. I would suggest to him to compare Maingay's No. 378 from 

 Malaya (of which I have seen only leaves) with S. Sorsfieldii. 



lodes, Bl. 



Conspectus of species. 

 x Pedicels not woody, slender. 

 Leaves oblong, not cordate at the base, membranous, the petiole \ — f in. long ; pedicels 



slender, about J lin. long, I. Brandisii. 



Leaves more or less oval, cordate at the base, coriaceous, the petiole 2 — 4 lin. long ; flow- 

 ers almost sessile, I. tomentella. 



x x Pedicels thick and woody. 

 Drupes orange, smooth, above an inch long, I. HooJceriana. 



1. I, Beandisii, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 298 ; Hf. 

 Ind. Fl. I. 596. 



