206 FLORA INDICA. \_8abiacece. 



Hab. In Malaya ad Peuang, Wall.! Phillips! (in Herb. Hook.).— 

 («. «.) 



Frutex alte scandens, cortice cinereo longitudinaliter rimoso ; partes noveUee fusco- 

 tomentosfe. Folia basi fere truncata, obtusa vel plerumque abrupte acuminata, co- 

 riacea, utrinque inter uervos (in sicco) elegaater striatula, subtus pallida, basi 3-5- 

 nervia, 4-6 poll, longa, 2^-4 lata, petiolo 3-4-pollicari glabro striatnlo. Racemi in 

 axillis super tuberculum fasciculati, aut secus ramulum abbreviatum foliosum vel 

 aphyllum alterni, 4-8 poll, longi. Flores minuti, subremoti, fascienlati vel solitarii, 

 bractea subulata suffulti. Fedicelli abbreviati. Stpala extus puberula. Petala 

 apice emarginata. 



16. PYCNARRHENA, Miers. 



Mas. Sepala 6 ; interiora majora, rotundata. Fdala 6, parva, ro- 

 tundata, varie lobata. Stamina 9, monadelpha ; filamenta apice libera ; 

 antherce adnatae, bilocnlares, loculis lateralibus sutura continua trans- 

 verse dehiscentibus. ■ — Frutex forsan scandens, petiolis brevibns basi 

 pseudo-articulatis superne incrassatis, foliis coriaceis, floribus in axillis 

 fasciculatis. 



Tbe female flower of tbis plant being unknown, its claim to a place among ileni- 

 spermacece is still doubtful. The structure of the petiole differs somewhat from that 

 of the typical Menispermacea, and approaches to that of Codiieum, and of many 

 species of Croton among Buphorbiaceie, and the inflorescence has no parallel in the 

 Order. The wood is identical in structure with that of Tiliacora. In the mean- 

 time, as it has been referred hither by Wallich and Miers, we place it provisionally 

 at the end of the Order. 



1. P. planiflora (Miers in Taylor's Annals, ser. 2. vii. 44); foliis 

 oblongo-lauoeolatis coriaceis, floribus in axillis congestis, pedicellis 

 brevibus. — Cocculus planiflorus, TFall. Cat. 4961 ! 



Hab. In prov. Silhet, TFall.!— {v. s.) 



Frutex scandens ? vel saltern sarmentosus. Hamuli tenuiter puberuli, eleganter 

 striatuli, pallide straminei vel fusci. Folia oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata, obtuse 

 acuminata, basin versus angustata, tenuiter coriacea, utrinque glabra, sed subtus secus 

 costam tenuiter puberula, 5-7 poll, louga, lf-2i lata ; nervi subtus conspicui, longe 

 intra marginem arcuati, venula^ (in sicco) eleganter reticulatcc. Petioli -|-poUicares, 

 puberuli, basin versus cylindrici, striatuli, versus apicem incrassati et antice profuude 

 sulcati, apice cum folio pseudo-articulati, et paullo intra margiuem laminae (igitur- 

 que subpeltatim) inserti. Flores in axillis dense congesti; pedicelli graciles, 2-3 

 lineas longi, pubescentes, basi bracteati et medio bracteolam minutam squamajformem 

 gerentes. 



IX. SABIACEiE. 



Mores hermaphroditi, rarius polygami. Sepala 5 (rarissime 4), parva, 

 basi coalita, subpersistentia, sestivatione imbricata, 2 exteriora, basi 

 bractea minuta antica adpressa suffulta. Petala 5 (vel 4), sepalis op- 

 posita, hypogyna, lineis coloratis pellucido-punotata, deoidua vel mar- 

 cescenti-persistentia, sestivatione imbricata. Stamina petala numero 

 Eequantia iisque opposita, disci dentibus alterna ; filamenta compressa, 

 carnosula vel plana, ligtdata vel subulata, apice angustata ; atdlierce 

 didymse, conneotivo lateraliter adnata; vel subliberse, ovoidete, bilocu- 



