Phytoerene.] xxxix. OLACiNEiE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 593 



Penaho, Porter, &o. ; Malacca, Oriffitk—TlisTRn. Java. 



Bramehes studded with minute prickles; shoots, petioles, and nerves of leaves ferru- 

 ginous hispid. Leaves very large, orbicular, cordate, palminerved, lobed halfway down ■ 

 lobes oblong-obovate, acute; petiole 4-6 in. Male fls. in long, axillary, densej 

 branched racemes, each pedicel supporting a globose head of flowers. Flowers ^V in. 

 Odj/x of 3-4 obovate, concave, hairy segments. Corolla longer than the calyx, deeply 

 ■iparted, lobes lanceolate acute setosp. Stamens 4, filaments glabrous ; anthers apicu- 

 late. RvMment of ovary minute, hairy. Female fl. not seen. Drupes IJ by 1 in.j 

 oblong-turbinate, surmounted by the thickened base of the style and covered by dense 

 subulate bristles, sonie of which are barbed and have a transparent point, 8eed pen- 

 dulous ; radicle superior, very short ; cotyledons elongate, linear-oblong, leafy. 



19. laiQtTSZiZA, Meissner. 



_ Climbing shrubs. Wood with large vessels. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 simple, membranous, usually palminerved. Peduncles supra-axiUary, race- 

 mose in the male, solitary in the female plant. Flowers dioecious, capitate. 

 Ma LB fl. : Gdyx minute, 4-5-iid. Cofolla separated from the calyx by 

 a long pedicel-like stipes (coroUa-tube ?), limb 4-5-lobed, lobes valvate, apex 

 inflexed. Stamens ipomerous and alternate with the lobes of the corolla, 

 filaments short ; anthers introrse. Female fl. : Calyx as in the male, 

 GoroUa not removed from the calyx, lobes free, or nearly so, ultimately re- 

 flexed. Stammodes 4r-5,yery small, alternate with the lobes of the corolla 

 or 0. Ovary sessile, 1-ceUed ; style short, stigma dilated cup-like ; ovules 2, 

 pendulous from the apex of the cavity, raphe dorsal, micropyle superior. 

 Drupe oblong, more or less compressed, surrounded at the base by the 

 persistent calyx, mesocarp thin, endocarp crustaceous externally rugose. 

 iSeed, solitary, pendulous albumen fleshy rugulose ; radicle superior; 

 cotyledons elliptic, thick, leafy flat. — Distelb. Species 5, (perhaps 

 all forms of one variable species, Baillon), distributed in India and the 

 Archipelago. 



The materials in herbaria .are not good, and the structure of the male flowers espe- 

 cially requires further examination in a fresh state. 



1. M. Klelnii, Meissn. Gen. 152 ; leaves obovate-lanceolate shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate subentire or crenulate. Miquelia assamica, Blume 

 Evim/phia, iv. 37. Jenkinsia assamica, Gi'iff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 

 231, 1. 12 j Notul. 370, t.-537, f. 2. Araliacea? Klelnii, W. & A. Brod/r. i. 

 375 Phytoerene sp. Wight lU. ii. 62. 



Assam, Griffith ; Khasia Mts., H.f. & T. 



Glabrescent. Branches strigose when young. Leaves 7-8 by 3 in., glabrous, base 

 tapering, rarely subhastate ; petiole l|-2 in. Peduncle's ofmalepl/mt-i^i in., filiform, 

 ^towers 'capitate, | in. Calyx minute, 3-5-fid. Corolla 4-5-parted, lobes oblong, free, 

 valvate. Filaments very short, anthers elongate. Rudiment of pistil depressed. 

 Pedimdes of female plani ^ort; thKek. Calyxmmate, 4r-5-lobed. CoTOfc 4^5-parted, 

 lobes reflexed, greenish. Staminodes minute. Ovary ovoid, apex truncate ; stigma 

 sessile, 4-lobed. Drupe | by J in. subsessile, yellowish, obliciuely ovoid. 



, 2. Itl. dentata, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Sac. xxv. 211, t. 23; leaves 

 oblong acuminate remotely and coarsely toothed, base truncate cordate. 



Western Peninsula ; Anamallay forests, Beddome. 



Branches terete, glabrous. Leaves 8 by 3| in., membranous, glabrous ; petiole 2 in. 

 Male fl. capitate on supra-axillary racemose peduncles which are shorter than the 

 petiole.' Fhwer-huds club-shaped, truncate. Calyx suboampannlate, 4-toothed. 

 Corolla-lobes lanceolate. Stamens 4, anthers oblong, base sagittate. Pistil minute, 

 rudimentary. Female fl. capitate, on a solitary supra-axillary peduncle longer than 



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