Myrmeeodia.] txxv. rubucej!. (J. D. Hooker.) 195 



patches of apparently close-set spinules (or tracts?), amongst which the flowers 

 nestle. Leaves irregularly scattered, 3 by 1 in., elliptic, subacute, narrowed into a 

 petiole |-1 in. ; stipules not represented. Calyx not represented. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, inflated below, 4 erect recurved triangular acute teeth, glabrous without ; tube 

 with a ring of hairs within below the stamens. Stamens 4, on the corolla-throat ; 

 filaments very short ; anthers broadly oblong. Style stout ; stigmas 6, or 3 each 2-fid, 

 erect. Fruit crowned with the calyx-limb, narrowly obovoid, " smooth,' yellow, 

 gooseberry-like," Wallace; pyrenes 5; these I have examined; they are narrowly 

 oblong, coriaceous, and contain 1 erect seed with a membranous testa, fleshy albumen, 

 and cylindric embryo f the length of the seed, cotyledons small, radicle elongate 

 jnferior.^-Whether this is De CandoUe's or Blume's or Gaudichaud's plant is doubtful ; 

 the latter has intrapetiolar 2-fid stipules connate at the base. Both this and Myrme- 

 eodia present a most interesting study, both in respect of their growth and structure 

 and of their relation to the ants which inhabit them. Good specimens preserved in 

 spirits are much wanted. 



Tbibe XIV. phidexixzsh:. . 



83. F^DERXA, Linn. 



Slender twining shrubs, foetid when bruised; branches terete, flexuous. 

 Leaves opposite, rarely whorled in threes, petioled ; stipules intrapetiolar, 

 triangular, deciduous. Flowers in axillary and termiaal 2-3-chotomously 

 branched panicled cymes, bracteolate or not. Calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate ; 

 limb 4-5-toothed, persistent. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, pubescent, 

 throat glabrous or villous ; lobes 4^5, valvate with inflexed crisped margins, 

 tip often 3-lobed. Anthers 4-5, subsessile in the corolla-tube, linear-oblonp, 

 obtuse. Ovary 2-celled ; stigmas 2, capillary, twisted ; ovules 1, basal, erect in 

 each cell. Fruit globose or compressed ; epicarp thin, fragile, shining, separating 

 from 2 orbicular or oblong dorsally compressed membranous or coriaceous 

 pyrenes. Seeds much dorsally compressed, testa thin adnate to the pyrene ; 

 cotyledons large cordate thin, radicle short inferior. — Disikib. Species 9 or 10, 

 in tropical Asia and 1 in Brazil. 



' Fruit much compressed ; pyrenes separating from a Jiliform carpophore, 

 more or less winged^ 



1. P. foetida, Linn. ; Moxh. Fl. Ind. i. 683 ; glabrous or nearly so, leaves 

 opposite long-petioled ovate or lanceolate, base acute rounded or cordate, cyme- 

 branches opposite, calyx-teeth short triangular, fruit broadly elliptic com- 

 pressed, pyrenes black with a broad pale wing. Wall. Cat. 6247, excl. £. ; 

 W. Sf A. Prodr. 424 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 471 ; G»-jf. Notul. iv. 267 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 479, f. 3; Ewrz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 139; For. Fl ii. 26. V. ovata, 

 Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 255. P. sessiliflora, DC. Prodr. 472. 



From the Centkai, and Eastern Himalaya, ascending to 5000 ft., southward to 

 Maiacca and westward to Calcutta. — Distsib. Malay Archipelago to Borneo (Mauri- 

 tius introduced?). 



Leaves 2-6 by f-2J in.; petiole ^1 in. Panicle 2-6 in. long, puberulous; 

 branches long in distant pairs, cymose at the extremity ; bracts minute, ovate or 

 subulate, ciliolate ; flowers sessile and pedieelled. Calyx small, tube campanulate. 

 Corolla |-| in., tomentose. Fruit \-^ in., polished, crowned by the conical disk and 

 minute calyx-teeth. 



Vab. mierocarpa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1. c. ; panicles very slender, flowers 

 more numerous, calyx minute, fruit orbicular \ in. diam. — ^Ava at Taongdong, Wail. 

 Cat. 6247. 



2. P. vertlclllata, Blums Bijd. 968 \ glabrous, leaves opposite and 3< 



