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filaments shorter than the anthers ; connective of outer stamens narrow, 

 of the inner broad. Female flowers unknown. 

 Perak, Scortechini. 



This species was collected only once by the late Father Scortechini. 

 All the flowers which I have seen are male ; and, as no unisexual species 

 of this genus has hitherto been described, I have modified the generic 

 defiuitiou accordingly. This differs from T. Gamhodiamm in having 

 very coriaceous leaves with shorter petioles, smaller flowers, and much 

 more numerous stamens. 



6. Kadsuea, Kaempfer. 

 Climbing glabrous shrubs. Leaves exstipulate. Flowers unisexual, 

 white, yellow or reddish, axillary, or in the axils of scales near the base 

 of short lateral leafy branches. Sepals and petals 9 to 12, imbricate in 

 about 3 series. t? Stamens 5 to 15 or more, in a spiral series ; filaments 

 very short, free or subconnate, often fleshy ; anthers free or subim- 

 mersed in a fleshy head of confluent filaments, cells small remote. ^ 9 

 Ovaries many, densely imbricated; stigma sessile ; ovules 2 to 4. Fruits. 

 globose head of indehiscent, fleshy, 1-seeded carpels. Seeds 1 or 2, sus- 

 pended, albumen fleshy, testa crustaceous ; embryo minute.— Distrib. 

 Temp, and subtrop. Asia : species about 7. 



1. K. scANDBNS, Bl. PI. Jav. Schisandreie, p. 9, t. 1. A woody 

 glabrous climber 30 to 40 feet long ; the bark dark-coloured, ifregularly 

 striate. Leaves coriaceous, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, shortly acu- 

 minate, entire, the base rounded very slightly decurrent towards the 

 petiole ; main nerves about 5 pairs, sub-erect ; length of blade 4 to 6 in., 

 breadth 2 to 4 in. ; petiole about 1 in., expanded at the base. Flowers 

 axillary, with a few from tlie trunk below the leaves, solitary, on bracteo- 

 late peduncles, those of both sexes similar. Oalyoc of 3 triangular sepals 

 much shorter than the petals and united at the base. Petals ovate- 

 oblong, blunt, fleshy, ereoto-patent, sub-concave. Male flowers witli 

 numerous short, cuneate, equal, stamens densely packed on an ovoid, 

 fleshy, receptacle ; the connective fleshy, the anthers sub-truncate, 2- 

 celled! Female flowers without stamens, the ovaries numerous, com- 

 pressed ; the stigmas sessile, elongate, fleshy. Ripe fruit sub-globose, 

 2 to 2-5 in. in diam. ; the individual carpels sessile, globose or subcom- 

 pressed, fleshy, muoronate or beaked, less than -5 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. ii, 19 ; K. catiliflora, Bl. 1. c. p. 11, t. 2 ; Sarcocarpon 

 scandens, Bl. Bijdr. 21. 



Perak Penang ; at low elevations. Distrib, Java, Sumatra, and 

 probably in the other islands of the Archipelago. 



2, K. CAULIFLOBA, BL Fl. Jav. Schkand. 11, t. 2. A stout woody 

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