86 PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 



OCTANDKIA— MONOGYNIA. 



OSBECKIA. 



Osbeckia tetrandra, Koxb. {Anplecbrum glaucum Triana). 



" Shrubby, scandent ; Leaves opposite, 3 nerved ; panicle 

 terminal, Flowers tetrandrous." Found near the waterfall. 



Allophylus. 



Allophylus racemosus ? Leaver ternate, flowers racemous. 

 Swartz. Prod. p. 62. OmitropJie occidentalis ? Willd. 2, p. 

 323. " Leaves ternate ; leaflets subsessile, racemes simple." 

 W. Allophylus ornitrophioides ? Roxb. "Leaves ternate; 

 leaflets lanceolate, serrate, Racemes axillary, simple. Petals 

 woolly on the whole of the inside R." Cheen chang. Malay. 



Stem twining, round, shrubby ; covered with a rough 

 brown bark. Branches scattered, spreading. Leaves scat- 

 tered, ternate ; leaflets oblong-ovate, acute sub serrate, smooth, 

 petioles common, long, straight, spreading, furrowed above, 

 proper, very short, stipules none ; bracts none : flowers very 

 small, in racemes axillary simple, erect ; when the fruit is 

 ripe drooping. Peduncle, cdmmon, the length of the leaves ; 

 proper, very short, scattered. Calyx Perianth four leaved ; leaf- 

 lets ovate, obtuse, concave, persistent ; the two outer smaller. 

 Corolla petals four, obovate, refuse, ciliate, concave, a little 

 smaller than the leaflets of the calyx ; with wedge form 

 claws. Nectary, glands four, reniform at the bases of the claws 

 of the petals. Stam : filaments eight, subulate, erect, villous, 

 at the base, the length of the calyx ; anthers twin. Pist : 

 Germ above, roundish, villous, twin; style columnar, from the 

 fissure of the germ, erect, stigmas two, acute, reflex. 

 Drupe small, roundish, smooth. Nut, globular, with a thin 

 shell ; kernel roundish, irregularly furrowed. Obs : One lobe 

 of the germ is always abortive. 



Found in thickets, climbing on other shrubs. (A variety 

 of Allophyllus cobbe Bl. apparently, but I never saw it climb- 

 ing). 



Jour. Straits Branch 



