JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 



No. 1.— 1892. 



I. — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. — By George King, M. B., 

 LL. D., F. R. S., C. I. E., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta. 



No. 4. 

 As explained in No. 1 of these papers, I was unable to take up fclie 

 Nat-)-"?,l Family of Anonaceae in its natural sequence. Having now 

 been able + o work it out, I present my account of it to the Society. 

 Another of the Thalamifloral families (Dipterocarpece) still remains to be 

 worked out before beginning the Disciflorce. In the present paper 

 I have followed, for the most part, the arrangement of tribes aud the 

 limitations of genera adopted by Sir J. D. Hooker in his Flora of 

 British India ; and in most of the instances where I have not done 

 so the fact has been noted. 



Order IV. ANONACE.E. 

 Trees or shrubs, often climbing and aromatic. Leaves alternate, 

 exstipulate, simple, quite entire. Flowers 2- rarely 1-sexual. Sepals 3, 

 free or connate, usually valvate, rarely imbricate. Petals 6, hypo°'\'nous 

 2-seriate, or the inner absent. {Flowers dimerous in Disepalum). Stamens 

 many, rarely definite, hypogynous, closely packed on the torus, filaments 

 short or ; anthers adnate cells extrorse or sublateral, connective pro- 

 duced into an oblong dilated or truncate head. Ovaries 1 or more, apo- 

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