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tose. Hook. fil. & Thorns PI. Ind. 179 ; Hook. fil. Fi. B. Ind. i. 99 : Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bafc. i. Pt. 1, 77 : Goccnlus Blimieaniis, Wall. Cat. 5971 partly. 



Climbing like tlie last on high trees. I have not seen s]pocimens of 

 the ripe drupe. 



LiMACiA, Loureiro. 

 Climbing shrubs or small trees : flowers in racemes or panicles. 

 Sepals 9, tomentose, in three series ; the two outer smaller, ovate ; the 

 inner large, rotund, concave, valvate. Petals 3 or 6, small, (as large as 

 the outer 3 sepals), obovate, clawed, glabrous, embi-acing the stamens. 

 Stamens 3 or 6, free, sub-equal ; filaments short, erect,, thickened up- 

 wards; anthers connivent, cordate, 2-lobed. Fem. flo wer : sepals and petals 

 as in male; staminodes 6, clavate. Ovaries 3, hirsute. Style short. 

 Drupes 3, usually 1 by abortion, obovoid or reniform, fleshy; style-scar 

 subbasal; endocarp 3-celled,'the 2 lateral cells empty. Seed elongate, 

 embracing the intruded endocarp; embryo slender, the cotyledons 

 linear, plano-convex. Distrib. Tropical Asia. 



1. L. TiiiANDRA, Miers Contrib. iii, 112. Branches closely striate, 

 puberulous when young, glabrous when adult. Leaves membranous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved above the rounded base, length 

 of blade 3 to 5 in., breadth 1-5 to 2 in., petiole about -5 in. Racemes 

 Bupra-axillary, shorter than the leaves, usually solitary, puberulous ; 

 bracts and and flowers minute. Stamens 3, free, the filaments cuneate ■ 

 anthers large, the cells divergent. Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. i. 100 ; Micj.' 

 Fl. Ind, Bat. i. pt. 1, 80. Kurz For. Flor. Burm. i, 55 ; H. f. &'t. Fl. 

 Ind. 188. L. Amherstiana and Wallichiana, Miers I.e. 112, 113. Menisp. 

 triaiulrum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 816. Oocculus triandriis, Colebrooke in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 64; "VVall. Cat. 4962, 4959 C. 4958 L. 

 Penang. Distrib. Bunnah. 



2. L. OCLONGA, Miers Contrib. iii. 109. Scandent or shrubby! 

 branches minutely striate, rusty-pubernlous when young. Leaves 

 membranous, glabrous, oblong-lanceolato or broadly elliptic, acute, or 

 mucronate ; the base rounded, 3-nerved ; reticulations few, bold, pubescent 

 like the nerves and petiole ; length of blade 4 to 7 in., breadth 2-25 to 3'5 

 in., petiole -76 to 1-25 in. Male panicles slender, extra-axillary, 

 usually in pairp, much longer than the leaves, branched, rusty-pubescent. 

 Stamens 6, filaments thickened upwards but not cuneate. Female in- 

 florescence much shorter. Brupe transversely reniform, compressed, 

 glabrous, pulpy, rugose when dry, -75 in. long, stylar scar on a sub-basal 

 projecting horn. Hook. fil. & Th. Fl. Ind. 189 ; Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. i. 

 100 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. i, 80. GoccuUs ohloncjus, Wall. Cat. 



Common in all the Sraits Settlements. 



