70 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



Alsodeia lankaiuiense, n. sp. 



A shrub with pale stems. Leaves 4-8 inches long li 

 to 2| inches wide, elliptic lancolate or ovate lanceolate 

 acuminate narrowed shortly at the base, edge thickened 

 and often slightly serrulate, nerves alternate 9 pairs, 

 nervules and reticulations elevate and fine, coriaceous 

 glabrous, petiole corky, glabrous or hairy i-i inch long. 

 Flowers in small axillary racemes sometimes branched, 

 rachis corky, thick, pedicels i inch long, flowers as long 

 drying black, unisexual. Sepals 5 ovate broad margins filiate. 

 Petals twice as long oblong with ciliate margins. Stamens 

 5, filaments terete, moderately stout. Anthers large ob- 

 long with 2 short horns at the tip, appendage broader reni- 

 forrn thin, no pisfeillode. Female flowers, similar to the 

 male, but the stamens abortive with a lanceolate narrow 

 appendage, ovary globose. Style cylindric stout, stigma 

 discoid. Disc annular. Fruit globose brown verrucose 

 i inch long. 



Lankawi at Kwah (Eidley 8392) male, (Curtis 2622) 

 in fruit. Terutau (Curtis) female. 



Allied to A. Wallichicoia, Hook, and A. Curtisii, but 

 the flowers are smaller, perianth lobes ciliate at the 

 edge. Sepals distinctly shorter than the petals and not 

 ribbed drying dark brown not straw colour. The short 

 blunt horns and large reniform appendage of the stamens, 

 are also distinctive marks. 



The females look very distinct in the smaller rounder 

 more serrulate leaves, and the Terutau plant has the 

 under surface of the leaves thickly punctate, both the 

 females have tufts of hairs in the axils of the nerves on 

 the back. The flowers are similar in the asexual charac- 

 ters however, and I have little doubt that the three 

 gatherings are specifically identical. A. Wallichiana has 

 somewhat similar asexual characters in the foliage in 

 the two sexes. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



