592 XXXIX. oLACiNEiE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Phytoerem. 



Martaban, Wallich. 



Branches spirally grooved, studded witt conical prickles. Leaves 4-10 by 4-7 in., 

 palmately 5-?-nerved, glabrescent above, villDSuloua beneath, rusty-pilose along the 

 prominent nerves ; petiole 2-3 in., liairy. Male fl. in long(8-10 in.), pendulous, axillary, 

 racemes, or from the old wood; rachis and pedicels hairy ; pedicels supporting a globose 

 head of flowers, ^racis or shorter than the pedicel. i?'ZoM;ers rVin., setose. Sepals 

 oblong obtuse concave at the apex, aniaomerous with the corolla. Corolla funnel- or 

 bell-shaped, twice the length of the calyx, bristly externally with uncinate bristles, limb 

 4-lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate. Stamens 4, alternate with the lobes of the corolla ; 

 filaments and anthers glabrous. Pistil rudimentary, hairy. Feoiale fl. not seen. 

 Fruit covered with subulate bristles. 



2. P. bracteata, Wall. Fl. As. Ear. iii. 12 ; branches prickly, leaves 

 cordate-ovate entire or slightly lobed, bracts (of male spikes) linear longer 

 than the pedicel. Wall. Cat. 494:7. P. macrocarpa, Crt/. iVoiJiZ. iv. 322; 

 Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. 487. Gynocephalum bracteatum, Trecm in Ann, He. Nat. 

 ser. 3, viii. 149. 



Penano, Porter; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. — Disteib. Borneo. 



Stem tubercled, tubercles ending in a spine. Branches covered with minute prickles. 

 Leaves 6-7 by 4^-5 in., coriaceous, asperulous above, pubescent beneath, palmately 5-^!- 

 nerved, nerves prominent beneath ; petiole 2^ in. Male fl. small, in axillary hoary 

 racemes each about 8 in. ; pedicels slender, each supporting 3 small heads of flowers 

 and subtended by a long linear bract adnate to its base and studded with hooked 

 bristles. Male fl. : Sepals 3-5, truncate. Corolla longer than the calyx-lobes, rounded, 

 inflexed, setose externally. Stamens 3-6. Budimentof ovary ohlong, setose. Female fl. 

 (according to GrifiSth), in rounded, peduncled capitula ; peduncles 3 from the same axil, 

 as long as the petiole, flattened, strigose. Calyx of 4 spathulate, concave sepals. Corolla 

 4-parted. Ovary strigose ; style short or 3-partite, stigmas 3 ; ovules anatropal, pen- 

 dulous. Drupes in globose masses the size of a man's head, each 1^ by J in., ovoid, 

 acute at both ends, densely covered with slender, appressed, yellow sefse, 1-celled. Seed 

 ], albumen fleshy, papulose on the surface, smelling of linseed oil ; radicle broad ; cotyle- 

 dons small, snborbicular. 



3. P. oblon^a, Wall. Fl. As. Far. iii. 12 ; branches not prickly, leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate entire pubescent beneath, bracts shorter than the pedicels. 

 Wall. Cat. 4948. Gynocephalum oblongum, Trecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, 

 viii. 149. 



Penanh, Wallich, &c. ; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



Bark striated, brownish. Leaves 8 by 3 in., coriaceous, glabrous above, pubescent 

 beneath, shortly acuminate, 1-nerved, base acute; petiole 4 in., rugofe. Male fl. in 

 axillary racemes or in tufts from the old wood. Bacemes slender, densely coveted, like 

 the pedicels, bracts and perianth, with brown hairs; pedicels filiform, 3-flowered. Bracts 

 linear, half the length of the pedicel and more or less adnate to it. Sepals 4, obovate, 

 obtuse, concave. Corolla 4-parted, lobes rounded. Stamens 3-4. Pistil rudimentary. 

 Female fl. (according to Maingay) : Sepals linear-oblotig, pale brown, hirsute. Petals 

 connate for ^ their length into an infundibuliform corolla ; lobes ovate, obtuse, hirsute. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with 2 collateral, suspended ovules; style twice the length of the 

 corolla, cylindric, ventricose, hirsute, 2-3-partite, divisions subacute, stigmatic on their 

 inner surface. Drupes in globular masses the size of a man's fist, each 2 by | iti., 

 oblong-obovoid, obtuse, covered with stout, straight, subulate prickles which, falling off, 

 leave circular pits ; epicarp coriaceous, mesocarp pulpy, stone urustaceous. Cotyledons, 

 according to Maingay, thin, white, divaricate, tortuous, branched, (?) embedded in a 

 fleshy lobulated albumen. 



4. P. palmata, Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 12; stem prickly leaves pal- 

 mately 5-lobed ferruginous-hairy beneath, bracts shorter than the pedicels. 

 Wall. Gat. 4949. P. stylocarpa, Griff. Notvl. iv. 320 ; Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. 

 489. Gynocephalum palmatum, Trecul in Ann. ISc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 149. 



