Adenosacme.'J Lxxv. edbiacej;. (J. D. Hooker.) 95 



Penamo; on the hUl, Wallich. 



Branches cylindrio, with pale smooth bark. Leaves 4-5 by 1^-2 in., eUiptic, 

 subacute, brpwn and shining -when dry, nerves few ; petiole \-\ in. Pedimdes 1-2 in. ; 

 Howere few, small, shortly pedjcelled. Corolla i in., fleshy, lobes longer than the 

 -tuba— This snrious plant has been collected by Wallich alone in 1822. 



35. ADENOSACnXE, WaU. 



Small s}n'ul)8._ Leaves very membranous, many-nerved; stipules oblong or 

 lanceolate oj- foliaceous, sometimes toothed and glandular. Fl'owerit -white, 

 yellow or greenish, in axillary and terminal panicled cymes with spreading 

 branches j bracts often glandular. Calyx-tube globose or hemispheric, lobes 

 4-6, persistent. Corolla tubular, short or long ; lobes 4-6, triangular, valvate 

 in bud, with evei-ted margins. Stamens 4-6, inserted in the tube, iilaments 

 short ; anthers linear^ohlong. _ Ovatij 2- or 6-e-celled ; style slender or thickened 

 above, stigmas 2- or 5-6 linear; ovules very numerous, on fleshy peltate 

 placentas. J?e?ry small, globose, 4^6-lobed, coriaceous or fleshy, 2- or 5-6- 

 celled, indehiscent or loculicidal at the crown, many-seeded, placentas globose. 

 Seeds minute, angled, testa dotted ; embryo minute, in fleshy .albumen. — 

 DiSTEiB. Species 4-5, Indian and Malayan. 



The flowers of this genus are di- or tri-morphic. 

 * Berry 2-ceUed, white. 



1. A. longrlfolia, Wall. Cat. 6280; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed 

 to a long acuminate point pubescent or puberulous beneath, stipules small 

 ohlong-lanceolate, cymes terminal and axillary sessile or shortly peduncled, 

 branches slender divaricating, corolla :J-f in. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 160. A. 

 malayana. Wall. Cat. 6282. Bertiera javanica and fasciculata, Blutne Bijd. 

 387; DC. Prodi: iv. 392. Mycetia javanica, Jieinw. Rondeletia longifolia, 

 WaU. in Boxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey §• Wall. ii. 137 ; Don Prodr. 138. Wend- 

 landia longifolia, DC. I. c. 412. W. malayana, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 519. 



SinBTROPicAi. Himalaya and mountains of Eastern Bengal from Kumaou, alt. 

 4000 ft., to SiKKiM, alt. 2-5000 ft. ; Khasia Mts., alt. 0-5000 ft. ; Assam, Cachab, 

 Chittagokg, Munnipoee, Tenasseeim, Malacca, and Penang. 



A bush with very brittle branches, covered with smooth yellowish shining spongy 

 bark. Leaves 4-10 in., very variable in width, narrowed into the slender petiole 

 i-2i in. long, above glabrous puberulous pubescent or with small scattered hairs, 

 beneath always more pubescent or tomentose than above ; stipules oblong-lanceolate 

 entire or 2-fld, glabrous hairy or with marginal glands. Cymes often 6-8 in. across, 

 S-chotomonely branched, glabrous or pubescent; branches very slender, zig-zag; 

 bracts and bracteoles small, glandular; flowers pedieelled, solitary or fascicled. 

 Cah/x-tube J in., hemispheric or subglobose ; teeth about as long, ovate subulate or 

 lanceolate and sinus glandular, persistent. Corolla fleshy, ^-J in., glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, tubular, yellow ; lobes small, broadly ovate. Berries \ in. diam., always white. — 

 Flowers (as observed by Wallich and C. B. Clarke) di- or tri-morphous ; one form has 

 short styles and stamens inserted over the ring of hairs above the middle of the tube ; 

 in another the style is long, and the stamens basal inserted below the ring of hairs ; 

 the third has a short wide corolla with the stamens about its middle. In diseased 

 specimens the bracts and calyx-teeth become very hard short broad and toothed, 

 leflexed, white like the bark, and shining. 



2. A. Stipulata, Hook.f.; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, nerves puberulous beneath, stipules very large foliaceous, cymes terminal 

 with their peduncles pubescent shorter than the leaves, bracts linear, flowers 

 shortly pedieelled corymbose. 



E. NiPAL and Sikkim, alt. 2-5000 ft. in very wet places, J. D. H., C. B. Clarke, &c. 



