M XV. ANONACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Lonchdmera. 



valvate ; inner smaller and broader. Stamens 8-12, loosely imbricate, broadly 

 euneate, tMck ; anther-cells lateral, introrse. Torits small, slightly concave, 

 pubescent. Ovary solitary, glabrous, sessile, contracted into a ver^ short 

 style, stigma subcapitate ; ovules 2, superposed. " JRipe carpels elliptic, api- 

 culate, succulent, glabrous, 2-3eeded. Seeds plano-convex; testa osseous." 

 Maingap. 



1. Xi. leptopoda, E. f. & T.; leaves oblong or elliptic obtusely acumi- 

 nate or acute, i 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A middle-sized tree ; branches black, young granulate. Leaves 2i-4 by l-lj in., 

 concolorous, hardly shining, thin, coriaceous, base rounded or acute, reticulate on both 

 surfaces, nerves very slender, subhorizontal ; petiole \ in., slender, naked. Flomers 

 I in. long ; peduncles 2-6, 4-| in., hoary ; bracts small, basal, obtuse. Sepals connate 

 below, tomentose. Petals tomentose on both surfaces, inner like the outer but one- 

 third shorter and much broader. Ovary ovoid. — The fi'uits enclosed in a cover with the 

 specimens do not .accord with Maingay's character (see Genus), they are IJ-lJin. 

 long, elliptic-ovoid, top rounded, base rather contracted, walls obscurely warted. Seed 

 oblong-cylindric, apparently enclosed in a dry aril which adheres vertically to one side 

 of the cavity ; albumen horny, slightly ramiiiated ; embryo half the length of the see^, 

 cotyledons linear-oblong, thin ; radicle cylindric, J the length of the cotyledons. 



Order V. MENISPUBMACHJE. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Climbing or twining rarely sarmentose shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire 

 or lobed, usually palminerved; stipules 0. Flowers smaM or minute, soli- 

 tary fascicled cymose or racemed, dioecious, sometimes 3-bracteolate. Sepals 

 6 (rarely 1-4, or 9-12), usually free, imbricate in 2-4 series, outer often 

 minute. Petals 6 (rarely or 1-5), free or connate. ^ Flowers : Stamens 

 hypogynous, usually one opposite each petal, filaments free or connate ; 

 anthers free or connate, 2-celIed. Rudimentary carpdssTa.a].\ ox 0. ? Flowers: 

 Slaminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 (rarely 1, or 6-12) ; style terminal, simple or 

 divided ; ovules solitary (2 in Fihraurea), usually amphitropous. Ripe 

 carpels drupaceous, with the style-scar subterminal, or by excentric growth 

 subbasal. Seed usually hooked or reniform, often curved round an intru- 

 sion of the endocarp (^condyle Miers), albumen even or ruminate or ; coty- 

 ledons flat or semiterete, foliaceous or fleshy, appressed or spreading. — A 

 large tropical Order ; genera 32 ; species about 100. 



In this Order we adhere to the classification of the genera, and limitation of the spe- 

 cies, adopted in our Flora Indica (1855), at variance as these are with our friend Mr. 

 Miers' views (Contributions to Botany, iii., 1871) ; this we do after the careful exa- 

 mination of the Order by Bentham and Hooker (Gen. Plant. 1862), a further study of 

 the Indian species by one of us in their native jungles and in the Calcutta Botanic 

 Garden, 'and a review of Eiohler's valuable monograph of the Brazilian species in 

 Martins' Flora BrasUiensis (1864). The divergence between Mr. Miers' conclusions and 

 our own amounts to his adopting for the Indian plants of the Order, 6 tribes, 26 genera, 

 and upwards of 90 species, as against our 4 tribes, 19 genera, and 35 species. We are 

 far from affirming that a few of our 35 species may not embrace two or more, hut 

 we find no evidence of this in the materials npon which Mr. Miers and ourselves have 

 worked. 



Tribe I. Tlnosporeee. Flowers 3-merous. Ovaiies usually 3. Drupes 

 with a subterminal rarely ventral or subbasal style-scar. Seed oblong or 

 subglobose; albumen copious or scanty; cotyledons foliaceous, usually 

 spreading laterally. 



