1889.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 379 



Malacca, Maiugay. Distrib. Java and Borneo. 



A species of which I have seen no good specimen. The foregoing 

 description is chiefly copied from Miers. 



4. TiNOMisciTjM, Miers. 



A scandent shrub, juice milky. Flowers racemed. Sepals 9, with 

 3 bracts. Pe/aZs 6, oblong, margins incurved. Male flower : stamens 6, 

 filaments flattened ; anthers oblong, adnate, bursting vertically. Rudi- 

 mentary carpels 3. Female flower unknown. Drupes much compressed, 

 ovoid-oblong, style-scar terminal ; endocarp much compressed, dorsally 

 convex, vontrally flat or slightly concave, not intruded. Seed almost 

 flat, oblong; cotyledons quite flat, nearly as broad as the thin layer of 

 albumen, very thin, closely appressedj radicle short cylindric. — Distrib. 

 3 B. Asiatic species. 



T. PETiOLAEE, Miers Contrib. iii, 45, t. 94. Young shoots and 

 rachises of inflorescence brown-tomentose : bark of older branches nearly 

 glabrous, pale brown, deeply striate, very sparsely verrucosa. Leaves 

 membranous, glabrous, ovate-oblong, obtuse or shortly and suddenly 

 acuminate, entire, the base rounded or truncate, 5-nerved, the nerves 

 all sparsely pubescent and 2 of them small ; length of blade 4 to 8 in., 

 breadth 2 to 4' 5 in. ; petiole 2 to 5 in., slender. Sacemes fasciculate on 

 stem tubercles, 4 to 8 in. or even 12 in., long. Floivers "35 in. in 

 diam. ; sepals puberulous. Drupe elongate-ovoid, compressed, 1"2.5 in. 

 long, and "75 in. broad ; endocarp rugose, woody. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. i, 87 ; Hook. f. Fl. B. Ind. i. 97. 



Common in the Straits Settlements, Distrib. Sumatra. 



Anamirta, Miers. 



Climbing shrubs. Flowers in panicles. Sepals 6, with 2 appressed 

 bracts. Petals 0. Maleflmver : anthers sessile, on a stout column, 2-celled, 

 bursting transversely. Female flo^oer : staminodes 9, clavate, l-seriate. 

 Ovaries 3, on a short gynophore : stigma sub-capitate, reflexed. Drupes 

 on a 3-fld gyuojjhore, obliquely ovoid, dorsally gibbous, style-scar sub- 

 basal ; endocarp woody. Seed globose, embracing the sub-globose hol- 

 low intruded endocarp ; albumen dense, of horny granules : embryo 

 curved ; cotyledons narrow, oblong, thin, spreading. 



1. A. LODEEilll, Pierre Flore Forest. Cochin Chine, t. 110. Gla- 

 brous ; bark of the younger branches brown, that of the older pale and 

 slightly striate. Leaves sub-coriaceous, shining, ovate-rotund to broadly 

 elliptic, abruptly and shortly acuminate, entire, the base sometimes 

 minutely cordate 5-ncrvcd and with 4 small pits between the nerves at 



