39 II. DiLLENiACEiE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Tetracera. 



Eastern Bengal and Eastern Pehikshla from Cbittagong to Sincapore.— DisTiiiB. 

 Java,. Philippines. 



Leaves 2^ in., oblong, serratures remote. Sepals broadly oval. 



3. T. ZSuryandra, VaU Symb. iii 71 ; young branches tomentose, 

 leaves rigid, shining above, pubescent beneath, panicle few-flowered, stpals 

 pubescent outside and densely cUiate, follicles 2-3-seeded. DC. Prodr. i. 68 ; 



. MoaA. Fl. Ind. ii. 646 ; H.f.dc T. FL Ind. 63. T. lucida, WoLl. Vat. 6631. 



Eastern Peninsula ; Malaooa and Sincapore. — Disteib. Molnccas and Kew Cnledonia. 



Branches angular. Leaves 1-b in., elliptic-oblong and obtuse, or oblong lanceolate 

 and mucronafe, entire or subdentate at the tip ; petiole short. Panicle terminal, leafy, 

 many-flowered. Seipah ovate-oblong. 



4. T. macropliylla, Wall. Gat, 6628 (by error macrocarpa) ; young 

 branches pubescent, leaves rigid scabrid on both surfaces, panicle decom- 

 pound many-flowered, sepals puberulous outside, follicles 1-seeded. H. /. 

 &T.Fl.Ind. 63. 



Eastern Peninsula, Malacca and Sincapore. 



3. ACnOTZLEKA, Jack. 



Stemless perennial herbs, with horizontal woody rootstocks. Leaves 

 large, gland-dotted, entire toothed or pinnatipartite, with sheathing deci- 

 duous stipules. iHcape usually short, axillary, cLithed with meuibraiious 

 imbricated scales. Flowers in short racemes, yellow. Sepals 5. Petals 5. 

 iStamens 15-50, in 3 bundles which alternate with the carpels; filaments 

 filiform ; anthers erect, cells dehiscing from the middle to the tip. Carpels 

 3, slightly cohering in the axis ; styles subulate, recurved ; ovules 2 or more. 

 Fruit of 3 follicles, bursting irregularly. Seed with a membranous aril, 

 testa crustaceous pitted. — Distrib. Species about 8, all Indian. 



A remarkable genus of very vaiiable species. The descriptions apply to adult foliage 

 only, all have the young leaves silky. 



* Carpels 1-2-seeded. 



1. A. costatum, Jack in Mai. Misc. ex Hook Bot. Misc. ii. 82 ; leaves 

 obovate base sagittate toothed, flowers 8-10 in lax racemes, stamens 15 

 WaU. Gat. 1117 A; B.f. <Ss T. Fl. Ind. 65. A. Wightianum W. Jc A 

 Prodr. 6 ; Wight III. t. 9. , 



Eastern Peninsula, from Moulmeiu to Sincapore. 



Leaves 3-6 by 14-24 in., rough with stiff hairs, toothed and densely ciliate, veins 

 beneath pale and hairy; petiole short. Scape shorter than the leaves, setose ; pedicels 

 much longer than the linear bracts. Ovules collateral ascending. — In the Flora Indiea 

 Travancore is given as a habitat for this species on the faith of a single specimen in 

 the Wightian Herbarium fastened in the same sheet, A. Armttiamim, and collected 

 by Koenig, who, though he iormed most of his collections in the Madras Peninsula also 

 visited the Straits of Malaooa. ' 



** Carpels many-seeded. 



t Leaves not pinnate or pinnatijid. 



2. A. Arnottlanum, Wight lU. 9, t. 3 ; leaves obovate-oblorig obtuse 

 base rounded or cordate sharply tootheo, s&ipe mauy-tloweied M f & T 

 Fl. Ind. 64. A. costatum, Wall. Cat. III7 B. A. Wightianum, Wall Gat. 

 3669 {not of W. & A.), 



